A review of the pre-chamber ignition system applied on future low-carbon spark ignition engines

S Zhu, S Akehurst, A Lewis, H Yuan - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Legislations for greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions from light-duty vehicles are
pushing the spark ignition engine to be cleaner and more efficient. As one of the promising …

Computational assessment of effects of throat diameter on combustion and turbulence characteristics in a pre-chamber engine

M Silva, X Liu, P Hlaing, S Sanal, E Cenker… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Towards fundamental investigation of key physical aspects of pre-chamber combustion, the
current work utilizes computational fluid dynamics to comprehend the effect of the throat …

Computational assessment of the effects of pre-chamber and piston geometries on the combustion characteristics of an optical pre-chamber engine

X Liu, ME Marquez, S Sanal, M Silva, AS AlRamadan… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Pre-chamber combustion (PCC) has the potential to extend the lean-burn limit in spark-
ignition engines, which can promote engine efficiency and relieve the concern of emissions …

[HTML][HTML] Enabling powertrain technologies for Euro 7/VII vehicles with computational fluid dynamics

S Wijeyakulasuriya, J Kim, D Probst… - Transportation …, 2022 - Elsevier
Government regulations on vehicle tailpipe emissions have steadily become more stringent
in the last few decades, mainly to reduce gaseous and particulate pollutants from internal …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical and experimental evaluation of the passive pre-chamber concept for future CNG SI engines

R Payri, R Novella, I Barbery, O Bori-Fabra - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The third decade of the 21st century is set to be one of the most relevant in terms of the
transition of methods and forms of using different energy sources, with short and medium …

Numerical analysis of the passive pre-chamber ignition concept for light duty applications

R Novella, J Gómez-Soriano, I Barbery… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of advanced ignition concepts and enhanced combustion strategies is being widely
studied for modern engine applications. In this framework, the passive pre-chamber ignition …

Computational assessment towards understanding the energy conversion and combustion process of lean mixtures in passive pre-chamber ignited engines

J Benajes, R Novella, J Gomez-Soriano… - Applied Thermal …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, a computational study was performed using a combination of several
numerical tools to better understand the limiting aspects of combustion in a passive pre …

Computational optimization of the performance of a heavy-duty natural gas pre-chamber engine

X Liu, M Silva, B Mohan, AS AlRamadan, E Cenker… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Optimization of the performance of a heavy-duty natural gas active pre-chamber (PC) engine
was conducted using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. Seven different …

Experimental and numerical investigations of the unscavenged prechamber combustion in a rapid compression and expansion machine under engine-like conditions

G Xu, M Kotzagianni, P Kyrtatos, YM Wright… - Combustion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Even though the unscavenged prechamber has been extensively applied in lean premixed
natural gas engines, the limited understanding of the fundamentals and the lack of predictive …

Numerical investigation of a fueled pre-chamber spark-ignition natural gas engine

J Kim, R Scarcelli, S Som, A Shah… - … Journal of Engine …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Pre-chamber spark-ignition (PCSI) is a leading advanced ignition concept for internal
combustion engines with the potential to enable diesel-like efficiency in medium-duty/heavy …