Recent Development in IC Engine Performance: Improvement of Combustion and Emission Characteristics
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 1951
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Interests: alternative fuels; diesel engine; combustion; emission; particle morphology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Because the current electric vehicles (EV) still have problems such as insufficient charging stations, long charging time, high initial cost, limited driving range and battery pack, traditional internal combustion engines (ICE) still play an important role in the automobile industry, transportation industry, agriculture, construction industry and power generation industry. Among this, transportation posits as a major consumer with the ICE at its heart, driving a wide range of terrestrial, aviation, and marine prime movers. However, ICE, including diesel engines and gasoline engines, use fossil fuels as the main fuel. The large consumption of fossil fuels has led to a series of problems such as an energy crisis, global warming, abnormal climate change and haze-fog pollution. In order to meet the increasingly stringent emission and fuel consumption regulations of ICE, many researchers have investigated various advanced technologies (direct injection: DI, multiple injection strategies: MIS, variable valve timing: VVT, variable compression ratio: VCR) blended fuels (binary, ternary and quaternary) combustion, new combustion technologies (low temperature combustion: LTC, homogeneous charge compression ignition: HCCI), etc., in recent decades. In addition, many countries have begun to develop ICE with a thermal efficiency over 50%. Once the thermal efficiency of ICE exceeds 50%, the exhaust emissions and heat loss of the engine can be well controlled, which is very beneficial to improve the competitiveness of ICE against EV. Therefore, finding new ways to improve the combustion efficiency and reduce exhaust emissions from ICE have become widespread concerns in the global hot topic. This Special Issue aims to discover and promote the latest development technologies, innovations and practical solutions for the sustainable development of ICE.
Dr. Jun Cong Ge
Prof. Dr. Jun Hee Song
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- internal combustion engines
- combustion
- emissions
- alternative fuels
- new combustion technology
- exhaust aftertreatment technology
- lightweight technology
- system intelligence and safety
- others
