Cooled exhaust gas recirculation is emerging as a promising technology to address the increasing demand for fuel economy without compromising performance in turbocharged spark injection engines. The objectives of this study are to quantify the increase in knock resistance and to decrease the enrichment and emission at high load. For this purpose four stroke turbo charged Spark Ignition engine (...

The extremum seeking controller (ESC) that minimizes the unknown performance index is applied to the control of SI (spark ignition) engines in the idle speed region. The proposed control system consists in the three parts, fuel-jet mount controller, ignition-timing controller and engine speed controller. The ESC applied to the engine speed controller should be modified in order to improve the e...

IJSER © 2013 http://www.ijser.org Abstract: The Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Engine, HCCI, has the potential to combine the best of the Spark. Ignition and Compression Ignition Engines. With high octane number fuel the engine operates with high compression ratio and lean mixtures giving CI engine equivalent fuel consumption or better. Due to premixed charge without rich or stoichiome...

Multi-point laser ignition (LI) is one of the key potential advantages that LI can offer over conventional spark ignition (SI). Previous research found that multi-point ignition produced more stable and faster combustion. This paper demonstrates a diffractive multi-point LI technology which is experimentally attempted at Liverpool University Laser Group. Sparks with arbitrary geometrical locati...

Spark assistance along with oxygenated components addition is a promising method to achieve stable compression ignition, high thermal efficiency and low particle emission. To this end, ethanol blended non-oxygenated gasoline was fueled an engine working spark-ignition compression-ignition (SICI) mode under air dilution exhaust-diluted conditions. The effects of on performance including combusti...

In recent years, the industry has shifted toward down-sizing and turbo-charging spark ignition (SI) engines in an effort to increase fuel conversion efficiency. However, this has given rise to a destructive phenomenon known as sporadic pre-ignition (SPI). At low cranking speeds and high loads, engines have been observed to knock violently for brief and infrequent intervals. If allowed to contin...

The possibility to use carbon nanotubes (CNTs) enriched with a certain amount of metal nanoparticles for photo-inducing the combustion of liquid fuel sprays, gaseous and solid fuels was investigated in different research works. CNTs photo-ignition phenomenon has been used to trigger the combustion of different fuel typologies, demonstrating better features compared with those obtained by employ...

Automotive ignition system diagnostic procedures involve a specific kind of action due to the presence of high voltage pulses rated of roughly several dozen kilovolts. Therefore, the repairers employed at car service coming into direct contact with electrical equipment of ignition systems are exposed to risk of electric shock. Typically, the electric discharge energy of automotive ignition syst...