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As the key technology for internal combustion engines direct fuel injection in Diesel plays a major role gaining the challenging development targets like power output, gasoline noise level, lowest emission and benchmark fuel consumption at an attractive cost level.
The successful results associated with a compact and simple engine structure, and economically viable, promises a new generation of efficient internal combustion engines.
Tailoring fuel properties to maximize the efficiency of internal combustion engines is a way towards achieving cleaner combustion systems.
The Delphi study concludes that external propulsion technologies are unlikely to be the substitute for internal combustion engines.
It is shown that the PM combustion technique can be applied to internal combustion engines.
The results indicate that propane staged-combustion engines are attractive for this application.
Although somewhat idealized, the effect of combustion on the performance and economics of the internal combustion engines gives a reasonable design goal and better understanding of the real-heat engine.
The successful results involving a compact engine structure, technically and economically viable, promises a new generation of efficient reciprocating internal combustion engines operating at relatively low temperatures.
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Michael Günther, Marc Sens 
01 Jan 2017
15 Citations
In addition to the Miller combustion cycle, the industry needs engines that employ strongly chargediluted combustion to achieve efficiencies significantly above 40%.
Many efforts for developing internal combustion engines with low consumption are taking place for some years and in this respect another of the further options is the ...
While fuel cells and batteries might some day be attractive, in the near term they cannot replace the internal combustion engine.
The results obtained herein may provide guidance for the design of practical internal combustion engines.
According to authors’ opinion, the internal combustion engine will still be the dominant technology in automotive applications for the next decades.
Increasing the efficiency of internal combustion engines is a technologically proven and cost-effective approach to dramatically improving the fuel economy of the nation's fleet of vehicles in the near-to mid-term, with the corresponding benefits of reducing our dependence on foreign oil and reducing carbon emissions.
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Jin Xiao, Qingfeng Li, Zhen Huang 
01 Apr 2010-Applied Energy
103 Citations
Furthermore, it has some unique features which are different from those of traditional Internal Combustion (IC) engines.
It has been concluded that the internal combustion engine could run with all fuel modes without any modifications and the performance is found to be comparable with that of fossil diesel.
The present technologies in internal combustion engines for transportation purposes clearly demonstrate the room for improvement still achievable.
In general, first-generation or advanced biofuels perform well in existing combustion engines, either as blend additives with petro-fuels or as pure “drop-in” replacements.
They can provide some new guidelines for the design practice of real internal combustion engines.
The methods used and the results obtained in this paper can provide some theoretical guidelines for the optimal design and operation of practical internal combustion engines.