Gasoline Compression Ignition Technology

Gautam Kalghatgi

Springer

2022

Abstract

The book Gasoline Compression Ignition Technology focuses on gasoline compression ignition (GCI) which offers the prospect of engines with high efficiency and low exhaust emissions at a lower cost. A GCI engine is a compression ignition (CI) engine which is run on gasoline-like fuels (even on low-octane gasoline), making it significantly easier to control particulates and NOx but with high efficiency. The state of the art development to make GCI combustion feasible on practical vehicles is highlighted, e.g., on overcoming problems on cold start, high-pressure rise rates at high loads, transients, and HC and CO emissions. This book will be a useful guide to those in academia and industry.

The contents of the book isIntroduction to Gasoline compression ignition technology: future prospects; technology enablers for advanced gasoline compression ignition engines; the effect of control strategies on the gasoline compression ignition (GCI) engine: injection strategy, exhaust residual gas strategy, biodiesel addition strategy, exhaust residual gas strategy, biodiesel addition strategy, and oxygen content strategy; a review on combustion rate control, spray - wall impingement, and CO/UHC formation of the gasoline compression ignition engines; spark assisted gasoline compression ignition (SAGCI) engine strategies; opposed - piston gasoline compression ignition enginr; combustion instabilities and control in compression ignition, low - temperature combustion, and gasoline compression ignition engines; injjection strategies and auto - ignition features of gaso line and diesel type fuels for advanced CI engine; review of life cycle analysis studies of less processed fuel for gasoline compression ignition engines; study on high efficiency gasoline HCCI lean combustion engines; reaction mechanisms and fuel surrogates for naptha/low octane fractions - application for gasoline compression ignition engine..