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Internal Combustion Engines for Future Mobility

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Thermal Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2022) | Viewed by 2274

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School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: new concept power system; dynamics of internal combustion engine; acoustic simulation of internal combustion engine; free piston linear generator
School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: free piston linear generator; control of internal combustion engine; design of modern internal combustion engine
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Dear Colleagues,

The internal combustion engine (ICE), invented at the end of nineteen century, has been diligently powering industries and transportations, and has contributed lots to the development of mankind. Up to now, it is still one of the most efficient, effective, and compact machines which could directly transfer chemical energy to kinetic energy. Facing high pressure reductions in carbon emission, sharply reduced reservations of traditional fossil resources, as well as intelligent developing trend of vehicle, research on new concept power system, and advanced technologies of ICE, have received much attention. The Special Issue "Internal Combustion Engines for Future Mobility" will collect papers on newly emerged creative power system, novel technologies of ICE in hybrid vehicles, intelligent ICE, as well as techniques of improving overall efficiency.

On summary, we expect researchers to contribute their ideas on following topics in this issue, although other valuable discussion on ICE could also be touched:

  • Review of developing trend of ICE technologies;
  • New concept power system;
  • Controlling and intelligenceof ICE;
  • ICE techniques fitting future’s smart transporting scenarios;
  • Structural integrity and downsizing design techniques of ICE;
  • Novel technologies of ICE to reach higher efficiency;
  • Technologies of ICE in HEV applications;
  • Compact, high efficiency techniques of ICE coupled with generator;
  • Special application of ICE toward future mobility.

Prof. Dr. Huihua Feng
Prof. Dr. Boru Jia
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • internal combustion engine
  • intelligent power system
  • new concept ICE
  • design of ICE
  • high efficient power system

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19 pages, 11978 KiB  
Article
Effect of the Preheating Strategy on the Combustion Process of the Intake Manifold Burner
by Zhishuang Li, Ziman Wang and Haoyang Mo
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(8), 3858; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12083858 - 11 Apr 2022
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Abstract
The intake air preheating is an effective method to improve the cold start performance of diesel engines. The combustion process and ignition probability were investigated in the present study. The average flame area (AFA) during the steady stage of the combustion process was [...] Read more.
The intake air preheating is an effective method to improve the cold start performance of diesel engines. The combustion process and ignition probability were investigated in the present study. The average flame area (AFA) during the steady stage of the combustion process was used to evaluate the effects of various factors on combustion. The increase of voltage was found to enhance the combustion process, while the increased diesel flow rate first promoted the combustion before deteriorating it. The increased intake air flow velocity enhanced the combustion within 2.64 m/s, and excessive air flow velocity hindered the combustion from 2.7 to 3 m/s. The cross-distributed vortex clusters in the combustion chamber, periodic diesel evaporation and vortexes with opposite rotation directions in the vicinity of the intake manifold burner were believed to be the main reasons for flame stripping and swirl motion. The temperature rise in the exhaust pipe was recorded to investigate the thermal distribution. The warm air was concentrated in the upper region because of the buoyancy effect of the flame. With the air flow velocity increasing from 1.4 to 10 m/s, the average temperature rise increased first before decreasing, while the combustion efficiency increased due to the increased air flow volume. Full article
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