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Advanced direct injection combustion engine technologies and development: Gasoline and gas engines (Volume 1)

Edited by H Zhao, Brunel University, UK

 - reviews key technologies for enhancing direct injection (DI) gasoline engines
 - examines approaches to improved fuel economy and lower emissions
 - discusses DI compressed natural gas (CNG) engines and biofuels

Direct injection enables precise control of the fuel/air mixture so that engines can be tuned for improved power and fuel economy, but ongoing research challenges remain in improving the technology for commercial applications. As fuel prices escalate DI engines are expected to gain in popularity for automotive applications. This important book, in two volumes, reviews the science and technology of different types of DI combustion engines and their fuels. Volume 1 deals with direct injection gasoline and CNG engines, including history and essential principles, approaches to improved fuel economy, design, optimisation, optical techniques and their applications.

ISBN 1 84569 389 2
ISBN-13: 978 1 84569 389 3
October 2009
324 pages  234 x 156mm  hardback  
£135.00 / US$230.00 / €170.00

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About the editor

Professor Hua Zhao leads a large research group on IC engines and their fuels at Brunel University West London. He has over 20 years’ research experience in combustion engines and combustion flows. His research covers both gasoline and diesel engines and their fuels, with particular emphasis on advanced combustion processes and engine cycles. He has published over 150 papers and authored a comprehensive book on engine combustion instrumentation and diagnostics.

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Contents

Overview of gasoline direct injection engines
H Zhao, Brunel University, UK
 - Introduction
 - Overview of direct injection gasoline engines
 - Potential and technologies for high-efficiency direct injection (DI) gasoline engine
 - High-pressure fuel injection system
 - Exhaust emissions and aftertreatment devices
 - Summary
 - References

Stratified charge combustion in direct injection gasoline engines
U Spicher and T Heidenreich, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
 - Introduction
 - Thermodynamic and combustion process
 - Production engines with stratified gasoline direct injection (GDI)
 - Future trends
 - References

The turbocharged direct injection spark-ignition engine
J W G Turner and R J Pearson, Lotus Engineering, UK
 - Introduction
 - Historical background: turbocharging for high specific output
 - Problems and challenges associated with turbocharging the spark-ignition (SI) engine
 - Advantages of combining direct injection and turbocharging is spark-ignition engines
 - Challenges of applying direct injection to a turbocharged spark-ignition engine
 - Future trends and possibilities
 - The turbocharged direct injection spark-ignition engine: summary
 - References

The lean boost combustion system for improved fuel economy
T Lake, J Stokes, R Osborne, R Murphy and M Keenan, Ricardo UK Ltd, UK
 - Pressures on the gasoline engine
 - Downsizing strategies
 - The lean-boost direct injection (LBDI) concept
 - Exhaust emissions control: drive-cycle emissions
 - Exhaust emissions control: off-cycle emissions
 - Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) NOx control as an alternative to lean NOx trap (LNT)
 - Conclusions
 - Future trends

Exhaust gas recirculation boosted direct injection gasoline engines
A Cairns, H Blaxill and N Fraser, MAHLE Powertrain Ltd, UK
 - Introduction
 - Fundamentals of wide-open-throttle exhaust gas recirculation (WOT- EGR) operation
 - Exhaust gas recirculation circuit design
 - Exhaust gas recirculation operating maps
 - In-vehicle requirements
 - Future trends
 - References

Direct injection gasoline engines with autoignition combustion
H Zhao, Brunel University, UK
 - Introduction
 - Principle of autoignition combustion in the gasoline engine
 - Approaches to autoignition combustion operation in gasoline engines
 - Operation and control of direct injection gasoline engines with autoignition combustion
 - Development of practical gasoline engines with autoignition and spark-ignition combustion
 - Future trends
 - References

Design and optimization of gasoline direct injection engines using computational fluid dynamics
J Yi, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering, Research and Innovation Center, USA
 - Introduction
 - Direct injection spark-ignition (DISI) injector technologies
 - Homogeneous charge direct injection system design and optimization
 - Stratified charge direct injection combustion system design and optimization
 - Turbo-charged or super-charged direct injection combustion system design and optimization
 - Future trends
 - References

Direct injection natural gas engines
D Zhang, Westport Innovations Inc., Canada
 - Introduction
 - Technologies
 - Potential applications
 - Strengths and weaknesses
 - Future trends
 - Sources of further information and advice
 - References

Biofuels for spark-ignition engines
J D Pagliuso, University of Sao Paulo and M E S Martins, Sygma Motors, Brasil
 - Introduction
 - Types and sources of biofuels
 - Performance
 - Emissions
 - Operation
 - Conclusions
 - References

Optical diagnostics for direct injection gasoline engine research and development
V Sick, The University of Michigan, USA
 - Need for and merit of optical diagnostics
 - Applications of optical diagnostics
 - Future trends
 - Conclusions
 - References