This book focuses on gasoline compression ignition (GCI) which offers the prospect of engines with high efficiency and low exhaust emissions at a lower cost. A GCI engine is a compression ignition (CI) engine which is run on gasoline-like fuels (even on low-octane gasoline), making it significantly easier to control particulates and NOx but with high efficiency. The state of the art development to make GCI combustion feasible on practical vehicles is highlighted, e.g., on overcoming problems on cold start, high-pressure rise rates at high loads, transients, and HC and CO emissions. This book will be a useful guide to those in academia and industry.
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Dr. Gautam Kalghatgi worked for 31 years at Shell Research, U.K., followed by 8 years in Saudi Aramco before retiring in June 2018. He has been a Visiting Professor at Oxford University, Imperial College, London, KTH Stockholm, TU Eindhoven and Sheffield University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, SAE, I.Mech.E. and Combustion Institute and an Honorary Fellow of the International Society for Energy Environment and Sustainability (ISEES). He is on the International Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute and on the editorial boards of several journals. He has published around 140 papers and a book on combustion, fuels and engine research and on transport energy. He has received several awards for his work including the 2021 ASME Internal Combustion Engines award, Huw Edwards award of the Institute of Physics, SAE Horning Award, and the Sugden award of the Combustion Institute. He has a B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (1972) and Ph.D. from Bristol University (1975) in Aeronautical Engineering.
Dr. Harsh Goyal is currently a post-doctoral researcher in Clean Combustion Research Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. from University of New South Wales, Australia in 2019 and M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India. He works in the field of internal combustion engines and alternative fuels for transportation. He is mainly focused on the performance and emissions testing, one-dimensional simulations, in-cylinder fuel-air mixing and ignition process using planar laser induced fluorescence imaging of formaldehyde, hydroxyl, and laser induced incandescence of soot radicals. He has published over 20 technical articles in international journals and conference proceedings.
Dr. Moez Ben Houidi is currently a research scientist in the Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. He received his industrial management engineering diploma from ENIT Tunis in 2008 and his Master's degree in Fluid Mechanics and Energy from UPMC Paris in 2009. From 2010 to 2013, he joined the research department of Renault-Nissan group, in Paris, as an advanced fuel research engineer on a Ph.D. contract with ENSMA (Poitiers). He graduated in 2014 as a PhD in energy, thermal and combustion sciences from ENSMA. His interests are mainly focused on the study of new combustion concepts for more efficient and sustainable transportation. This includes topics related to IC engines, thermo-kinetic interaction, combustion propagation regimes, optical diagnostics, spray characterization, and pre-chamber combustion.
Inhalt
Technology Enablers for Advanced GCI engines.- Research Direction for GCI Engine Development.- Fuel Effect on the Development of Gasoline Compression Ignition Mode in a Light Duty Engine at Low Load.- A study to improve engine efficiency and emission characteristics in GCI engines: The Effect of Exhaust Residual Gas, Ignition Control Strategy, Gasoline Biodiesel Ratio and Intake Port Modification Investigation.- Gasoline Compression Ignition Engines: Ignition, Combustion Rate Control, Spray-Wall Impingement, and CO/UHC Formation.- Opposed Piston Gasoline Compression Ignition.- Development of Spark Assisted Gasoline Compression Ignition (SA-GCI) Engine Strategies.