Various solutions are being proposed and adopted by manufactures and researchers to improve the energetic and environmental performance of internal combustion engines within the transportation sector. For automotive spark ignition engines, gasoline direct injection is one of the presently preferred technologies, in conjunction with turbocharging and downsizing. One of the limiting phenomena of ...

This study presents comparative energy and exergy analyses of a four-cylinder, four-stroke spark-ignition engine using gasoline fuels of three different research octane numbers (RONs), namely 91, 93 and 95.3. Each fuel test was performed by varying the engine speed between 1200 and 2400 rpm while keeping the engine torque at 20 and 40Nm. Then, using the steady-state data along with energy and e...

In automotive powertrain control strategy, engine torque estimators are preferred to expensive sensors for obvious economic reasons. In the literature several works have been presented proposing both instantaneous engine torque and mean engine torque estimators. The first ones are based on complex models and tipically are suitable for diagnosis purposes, while the latter estimate the torque by ...

temperature is one of the effective parameters in erosion of spark plug electrodes. in this research, temperature of spark plug was measured in engine's different operation conditions with two types of fuels: compressed natural gas and gasoline. test results showed that, temperature of center electrode is lower than ground electrode and maximum difference between them is 110ºc that occurs ...