There are plenty of articles on combustion testing, equipment adjustments, and efficiency, but few on basic combustion knowledge or understanding. To some people, promoting setting gas pressure, ...

ABSTRACT Future emissions standards for passenger cars require a reduction of NO ₓ (nitrogen oxide) and CO ₂ (carbon dioxide) emissions of Diesel engines. One of the ways to reach this challenge while ...

Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, working with colleagues at Stony Brook University, have developed a unique experimental technique to measure the flow of ...

The engine in your car and most motorcycles today are 4-stroke units that keep lubrication and fuel for combustion as separate parts. The 2-Stroke engine on the other hand requires the mixing of fuel ...

You've seen the evidence. You disassemble an engine and witness the appearance of deposits—or their absence—on piston crowns and combustion chambers in the cylinder heads. You can relate the presence, ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 110, Section 4: JOURNAL OF FUELS AND LUBRICANTS (2001), pp. 1626-1634 (9 pages) Dimethyl Ether (DME) is one of the major candidates for the next generation fuel for compression ...

The danger of the ever-increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere has become one of the most pressing issues of our age. As such, much research has been conducted to find ways not ...

Have you ever been driving down the highway wondering what your motor is really doing thousands of times a minute? YouTuber Matt Mikka has opened a window into the inner workings of the internal ...

14 May 2004 – Alstom announced that it is participating in a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) project to develop and verify a novel hybrid combustion-gasification chemical looping concept for ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) on Thursday announced it would award $7 million to eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, ...