Internal combustion engines: Progress and prospects

A Alagumalai - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Indeed, the engine industries have seen a tremendous growth in the research and
development of new-age technologies over the past ten years or so. Even though a huge …

Alcohol–diesel fuel combustion in the compression ignition engine

W Tutak, K Lukács, S Szwaja, Á Bereczky - Fuel, 2015 - Elsevier
Shortage of fossil fuels requires from scientists to undertake investigation focused on
applying alternative, renewable based fuels to a reciprocating engine. Among others …

Parametric investigation of natural gas port injection and diesel pilot injection on the combustion and emissions of a turbocharged common rail dual-fuel engine at low …

B Yang, C **, X Wei, K Zeng, MC Lai - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, a common rail diesel research engine was converted to operate in dual-fuel
mode and extensive experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of natural gas …

Combustion and emissions characteristics of dual-channel double-vortex combustion for gas turbine engines

RC Zhang, WJ Fan, Q Shi, WL Tan - Applied energy, 2014 - Elsevier
A vortex combustor is a novel gas turbine combustor that uses staged combustion
technology. Research examining the combustion organization method of the pilot …

Microwave-assisted plasma ignition in a constant volume combustion chamber

J Hwang, C Bae, J Park, W Choe, J Cha, S Woo - Combustion and Flame, 2016 - Elsevier
An experimental study was carried out to investigate the effect of microwave-assisted
plasma ignition on laminar flame development in a 1.4 l constant volume combustion …

Bioethanol E85 as a fuel for dual fuel diesel engine

W Tutak - Energy conversion and management, 2014 - Elsevier
This study investigates the potential of E85 fuelling in a diesel engine. Researches were
performed using a three-cylinder a direct injection diesel engine. A dual-fuelling technology …

Thermal efficiency improvement of super-lean burn spark ignition engine by stratified water insulation on piston top surface

T Nagasawa, Y Okura, R Yamada… - … Journal of Engine …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In order to improve thermal efficiency of spark ignition engine under super-lean burn
conditions (excess air ratio λ≈ 2. 0), thermal stratification technique by in-cylinder water …

Control of combustion phasing and operating range extension of natural gas PCCI engines using ozone species

MM Salahi, A Gharehghani - Energy Conversion and Management, 2019 - Elsevier
There are two major issues that restrain premixed charge compression ignition (PCCI)
engines from being widely employed for industrial applications: difficulties in combustion …

Numerical investigation on combustion processes of an aircraft piston engine fueled with aviation kerosene and gasoline

Z Zhao, H Cui - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Replacing gasoline with aviation kerosene for spark-ignition (SI) piston engines applied for
aircrafts can get better security and easier logistics, however, this action cannot proceed …

Lean burn performance of a hydrogen-blended gasoline engine at the wide open throttle condition

S Wang, C Ji, B Zhang, X Liu - Applied energy, 2014 - Elsevier
The performance of a hydrogen-blended gasoline engine at lean and the wide open throttle
conditions was investigated. A hydrogen port-injection system was adopted to introduce the …