Paper V (ii) Piston Ring Face Temperatures in a Firing Diesel Engine

A set of sapphire windows have been inserted in the cylinder liner of a Petter AVI diesel engine. This has enabled the temperatures of the piston ring and piston land surfaces to be measured at various points in the cycle of a firing engine using an infrared emission microscope attached to a storage oscilloscope. In this paper the method is described and some results obtained at mid-stroke and top dead centre are presented. These are compared to previous measurements of the bulk temperature of piston rings taken by other workers.