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The cetane engine is a variable compression single cylinder engine very much like the octane engine. The engine is mn at 900 rpm and injection is timed to start at 13° before top dead center (BTDC). The compression ratio is adjusted so that the test fuel starts to ignite at exacdy top dead center (TDC), for an ignition delay of 13° or 2.4 ms. Reference fuels are chosen which bracket the sample and the cetane number of the sample is estimated by interpolation between the two reference fuels. 

Octane number is a measure of a fuel s abiUty to avoid knocking. The octane number of a gasoline is deterrnined in a special single-cylinder engine where various combustion conditions can be controlled. The test engine is adjusted to give trace knock from the fuel to be rated. Various mixtures of isooctane (2,2,4-trimethyl pentane) and normal heptane are then used to find the ratio of the two reference fuels that produce the same intensity of knock as that by the unknown fuel. 

The second type is the quaUty of combustion. A misfire or partial misfire of the air/fuel charge in the combustion chamber causes the unbumed air and fuel mixture to pass to the catalyst, where combustion occurs. The temperature rise from combustion in the catalyst is considerable. Two misfiring cylinders in a four-cylinder engine could cause the catalyst to approach the melting temperature of the substrate (1465°C) (69). 

H. E. Jaaskelainen andj. S. Wallace, Peformance and Emissions of a Natural Gas-Fueled 16-Valve DOHC Four-Cylinder Engine, SAE 930380, Society of Automotive Engineers, Warrendale, Pa., 1993. 

Otto s single-cylinder engine of 1876 had a nominal cylinder bore of half afoot and a piston stroke of a foot. Operating at 180 rpm, it developed about 3 horsepow-... 

Zons built for Otto a flat four-cylinder engine. Each cylinder contained a free cushion piston, this engine, however, was a failure. In 1863 Otto had Zons built a one-half horsepower atmospheric engine. 

Cetane Number is a numerical indication of a fuel s (kerosene, dic.sel, heating oil) ignition quality. Cetane number is measured in a single-cylinder engine, whereas cetane index is a calculated value. 

The single-cylinder engine with optical access (a) cross section showing quartz windows and the extended piston construction view of the engine during testing. (Courtesy of Dec, J.)... 

At 3000 rpm, an 8-cylinder engine generates 1500 x 8 = 12000 pulses per minute which is 200 evenly-spaced pulses per second. So the induced pulses are running at nearly 4 times the speed of the 110V ac, and this pulse speed increases when the engine speed increases. 

In any 8mS period. If I am right about the inter-relay feedback, the plug will receive an additional one or two HV pulses. It s not much, but It Is slightly better than before. If it is having an effect, then an 8-cylinder engine is much more likely to run than a 4-cylinder engine which generates only half as many HV pulses per rev. 

You could eliminate the inter-cylinder feed on a 4-cylinder engine by using four separate small inverters instead of one larger one. The small ones are fairly cheap and many have overload-protection circuitry so no fuse is needed in the battery lead - those that don t will have their own fuse. With this system, each inverter feeds just one... 

The easiest way of course is to use a small single cylinder engine and use a single-shot plasma discharge system. For example with manually controlled ignition coil or other HV source and pulse capacitor discharge from the flash unit of a disposable camera. 

Slr-Tero plasma spark plug system for a single-cylinder engine using the original ignition coil... 

The cap and rotor approach could also be replaced with a disk and brush assembly whereby the length of firing could be controlled by the width of the contact area on the rotating disk (i.e., something less than 45 degrees for each firing in a V8 (or < 90° in a 4 cylinder engine)). 

Consider the reaetion engineering of a four-eyele spark ignition automobile. Assume a 1.5 liter, 4-cylinder engine with a eompression ratio of 10 driving at 60 mph with a tachometer reading of 2400 rpm and burning oetane in 20% exeess air. 

Cryogenic materials Established data on properties of weld and base metals in LHj. Hydrogen diesel engine Tested a 100 kW single cylinder engine. 

This fuel distribution and injection process occurs four times per plunger revolution for a 4-cylinder engine and six times per revolution for a 6-cylinder engine. Distributor pumps are not typically utilized on 8-cylinder or larger diesel engines. 

One might expect that vehicle emissions would be related to the composition of the fuel used, and a number of studies have confirmed this (e.g., see Schuet-zle et al., 1994 Siegl et al., 1992 and Kaiser et al., 1991, 1992, 1993). For example, emissions coming from a single-cylinder engine have shown that the mass emissions increase as the molecular weight of a single-component fuel increases and that benzene emissions decrease as the aromatic content of the fuel decreases (Schuetzle et al., 1994). 

Representative single-cylinder engine test data (1,2)... 

Octane Number—The octane rating of a motor fuel is defined in terms of its knocking characteristics relative to those of blends of isooctane (2.3,4-trimethylpentane) and n-heptane. and a rating of 100 to isooctane, The octane number of an unknown fuel is numerically equal to the volume percent ot isooctane in a blend with -heptane which has the same knocking tendency as the unknown fuel when both the unknown and the reference blend are run in a standard single-cylinder engine operated at specified conditions. Motor Method octane numbe-is are measured at moie- severe engine conditions and are numerically lower than those determined by the milder Research Method. The difference between the two numbers is termed sensitivity. 

Since we have all three factors involved in gas action/reaction, we can apply the combined gas law. The 6-cylinder engine, 6.0 liters total volume, has 1.0-L cylinders, which is the value of V. The remainder of the factors are stated. 

Uses a single-cylinder Caterpillar test engine (148.8 CID). Single cylinder engine test designed to measure piston deposit control of engine oil. 

Gasoline substitution. Two General Motors vehicles are operating in their normal work, using methanol as a fuel. One has a 6 cylinder engine, the other a 4 cylinder engine. Modifications were ... 

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