Friction dissipation in reciprocating internal combustion engines: camshaft bearings

Friction Reduction and Reliability for Engines Bearings

Friction reduction is necessary in order to decrease engine emissions, so bearing friction needs to be reduced but with the constraint that low friction solutions should not affect bearing reliability. To meet this target of low friction and high reliability bearings, several technical solutions are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to evaluating friction reduction performance for each sol...

Internal Combustion Engines

Ethanol Internal Combustion Engines

Ethanol Internal Combustion Engines HIGHLIGHTS PROCESS AND TECHNOLOGY STATUS – The use of biofuels (e.g. bio-ethanol and biodiesel) in the transport sector can save significant amounts of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Internal combustion engines (ICEs) can run on bio-ethanol manufactured from biomass or waste through biochemical processes. Agricultural feedstock such as sugar...

An investigation on the effects of camshaft surface defects on producing high-frequency noises in internal combustion engines

Valvetrain is one of the major sources of noise and vibration in IC engines. The importance of cam surface quality parameters is highlighted in the valve train mechanisms with direct sliding contact between cam and tappet. In this paper, the influence of surface quality parameters on high frequency noise producing is investigated. The roughness and waviness of some intake and exhaust camshafts ...

Transient combustion control of internal combustion engines

This thesis addresses the problem of combustion control for automotive engines. A method is proposed to complement existing controllers, which use lookup tables based on steady-state operation. During transients, the new control method adjusts fast control variables (ignition or injection time) to compensate for deviations in the cylinder initial conditions from their optimal values due to the ...