HCCI ENGINE - IDEA AND EXPECTATIONS, CASE STUDY

Internal combustion engines yet have not exhausted their development possibilities in the range of economy and ecology demands. Development of SI and CI engines, which several years ago proceeded individually in-parallel, now becomes likely in common: one type of engine shares some features with the other one, e.g. direct injection, electronically controlled injectors, electronic control unit etc. However, type of ignition and mixture formation are still different (spark assisted ignition versus auto ignition and homogeneous mixture versus heterogeneous). HCCI engine overcomes this difference. At present HCCI engine uses both type of ignition modes and both types of mixture in different ranges of operational parameters. Direct injection during compression stroke and stratified charge are characteristics for low and mild power resulting in low emission of CO and HC as well as NOx. Combustion is initiated by spark when mixture is very poor. For maximum load and speed, auto-ignition of homogeneous stoichiometric mixture takes place in the whole volume of combustion chamber. Due to the absence of flame and low temperature, nitrogen oxides, of which molecules arise in post flame zone, are low. Also emission of CO and HC are low due to stoichiometry of the mixture. The key problem is controlled auto-ignition as a function of speed and load (fully HCCI engine). Several methods of auto-ignition control (CAI) are discussed in this paper.

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