Improving thermal efficiency of internal combustion engines: recent progress and remaining challenges

RY Dahham, H Wei, J Pan - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Improving thermal efficiency and reducing carbon emissions are the permanent themes for
internal combustion (IC) engines. In the past decades, various advanced strategies have …

Progress and recent trends in reactivity-controlled compression ignition engines

A Paykani, AH Kakaee, P Rahnama… - … Journal of Engine …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Low-temperature combustion is an emerging engine technology that has the ability to yield
low NOx and soot emissions while maintaining high fuel efficiency. Low-temperature …

Fuel reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI): a pathway to controlled high-efficiency clean combustion

SL Kokjohn, RM Hanson, DA Splitter… - … Journal of Engine …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
A fuel reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI) concept is demonstrated as a
promising method to achieve high efficiency–clean combustion. Engine experiments were …

Heavy-duty RCCI operation using natural gas and diesel

DE Nieman, AB Dempsey, RD Reitz - SAE International Journal of Engines, 2012 - JSTOR
Many recent studies have shown that the Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI)
combustion strategy can achieve high efficiency with low emissions. However, it has also …

Reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI) heavy-duty engine operation at mid-and high-loads with conventional and alternative fuels

Engine experiments and multi-dimensional modeling were used to explore Reactivity
Controlled Compression Ignition (RCCI) to realize highly-efficient combustion with near zero …

Fuel reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI) combustion in light-and heavy-duty engines

S Kokjohn, R Hanson, D Splitter, J Kaddatz… - SAE International Journal …, 2011 - JSTOR
Single cylinder engine experiments were used to investigate a fuel reactivity controlled
compression ignition (RCCI) concept in both light-and heavy-duty engines and comparisons …

A perspective on the range of gasoline compression ignition combustion strategies for high engine efficiency and low NOx and soot emissions: Effects of in-cylinder …

AB Dempsey, SJ Curran… - International Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Many research studies have shown that low temperature combustion in compression
ignition engines has the ability to yield ultra-low NOx and soot emissions while maintaining …

An advanced internal combustion engine concept for low emissions and high efficiency from idle to max load using gasoline partially premixed combustion

V Manente, CG Zander, B Johansson, P Tunestal… - 2010 - sae.org
A Scania 13 1 engine modified for single cylinder operations was run using nine fuels in the
boiling point range of gasoline, but very different octane number, together with PRF20 and …

Experimental study on combustion and emissions of n-butanol/biodiesel under both blended fuel mode and dual fuel RCCI mode

Z Zheng, M Xia, H Liu, R Shang, G Ma, M Yao - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
Oxygenated biofuels have become one of the research focuses of engines due to their
renewability and improvement in combustion. There has been some studies concentrating …

Investigating the effect of fuel properties and environmental parameters on low-octane gasoline-like fuel spray combustion and emissions using machine learning …

Y Ma, D Yang, D Xie, E Jiaqiang - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The gasoline compression ignition mode is an advanced combustion mode that achieves
high efficiency with low emissions. This study constructs a global sensitivity analysis (GSA) …