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Spark-ignition engine

About: Spark-ignition engine is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4352 publications have been published within this topic receiving 66550 citations.


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12 Apr 2010
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of alcohol blends on combustion, fuel economy and emissions in a single cylinder research engine equipped with a mechanical fully variable valvetrain on the inlet and variable valve timing on the exhaust.
Abstract: This work involved study of the effects of alcohol blends on combustion, fuel economy and emissions in a single cylinder research engine equipped with a mechanical fully variable valvetrain on the inlet and variable valve timing on the exhaust. A number of splash blends of gasoline, iso-octane, ethanol and butanol were examined during port fuel injected early inlet valve closing operation, both with and without variable valve timing. Under low valve overlap conditions, it was apparent that the inlet valve durations/lifts required for full unthrottled operation were remarkably similar for the wide range of blends studied. However, with high valve overlap differences in burning velocities and internal EGR tolerances warranted changes in these valve settings. In turn, it was concluded that high ethanol content blends facilitated minimum throttling at the inlet valve itself and the largest relative savings in terms of fuel consumption, engine-out emissions of NOx and (corrected) unburned hydrocarbons.

22 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, an experimental and theoretical investigation of the influence of the compression ratio on the brake power, brake thermal efficiency, brake mean effective pressure and specific fuel consumption of the Ricardo variable compression ratio spark ignition engine was conducted.
Abstract: The need to improve the performance characteristics of the gasoline engine has necessitated the present research. Increasing the compression ratio below detonating values to improve on the performance is an option. The compression ratio is a factor that influences the performance characteristics of internal combustion engines. This work is an experimental and theoretical investigation of the influence of the compression ratio on the brake power, brake thermal efficiency, brake mean effective pressure and specific fuel consumption of the Ricardo variable compression ratio spark ignition engine. Compression ratios of 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, and engine speeds of 1100 to 1600 rpm, in increments of 100 rpm, were utilised. The results show that as the compression ratio increases, the actual fuel consumption decreases averagely by 7.75%, brake thermal efficiency improves by 8.49 % and brake power also improves by 1.34%. The maximum compression ratio corresponding to maximum brake power, brake thermal efficiency, brake mean effective pressure and lowest specific fuel consumption is 9.The theoretical values were compared with experimental values. The grand averages of the percentage errors between the theoretical and experimental values for all the parameters were evaluated. The small values of the percentage errors between the theoretical and experimental values show that there is agreement between the theoretical and experimental performance characteristics of the engine.

22 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the coke oven gas (COG), a byproduct of coke manufacture with a high volumetric percentage of H2 and CH4, has been identified as auxiliary support and promising energy source in stationary internal combustion engines.

22 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of direct-injected hydrogen on lean combustion characteristics of natural gas engines were investigated, emphasizing the role of hydrogen injection timing, and the results showed that the direct injected hydrogen exhibits great improvement in lean combustion instability and power capability.

22 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the nonlinear time series of Indicated Mean Effective Pressure (IMEP) of a spark ignition engine cyclic combustion process of a natural gas.
Abstract: We investigate the nonlinear time series of Indicated Mean Effective Pressure ($\mathit{IMEP}$) of the spark ignition engine cyclic combustion process of a natural gas. By applying the embedding theorem and the recurrence plots technique, we show changes in the engine dynamics for different equivalence ratios. Especially, we provide arguments for intermittency behaviour.

22 citations


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