Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2010

A team from Universita degli Studi di Pisa (Italy) and Rolf Reitz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are proposing a novel combustion concept—Homogenous Charge Progressive Combustion (HCPC)—based on a split-cycle principle to control HCCI combustion in diesel-fueled engines. Combustor Compressor.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2012

A researcher at the Nanjing University of Science & Technology is proposing a novel opposed-piston free-piston linear generator for use in series hybrid electric vehicles. In an SAE paper, Huang describes a modeling and simulation study of the new free-piston linear generator. Click to enlarge. Huang 2012. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Researchers at the Dalian University of Technology have proposed a novel method to control premixed charge compression ignition (PCCI) phasing in internal combustion engines in all load operations. Using this approach, the combustion phasing can be controlled directly by the high-pressure air jet.

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