Advances in Automobile Engineering
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Yuji Ikeda

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• Research Article
  Stability Limit Extension of a Wet Ethanol-fueled SI Engine using a Microwave-assisted Spark
  Author(s): Benjamin Wolk Benjamin Wolk
  
  Advanced engines can achieve higher efficiencies and reduced emissions by operating in regimes with diluted fuel-air mixtures and higher compression ratios, but the range of stable engine operation is constrained by combustion initiation and flame propagation when dilution levels are high. An advanced ignition technology that reliably extends the operating range of internal combustion engines will aid practical implementation of nextgeneration high-efficiency engines. The microwave-assisted spark plug under development by Imagineering, Inc. of Japan has previously been shown to expand the stable operating range of gasoline-fueled engines through plasmaassisted combustion, but the factors limiting its operation were not well characterized. The present experimental study has two main goals: (1) to investigate the capability of the microwave-assisted spark plug towards expanding the stab.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-7670.1000123

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