Futura science remains faithful to its search for "scientific demagoguery" ... but when you scratch there is much more ...
It's nonsense to talk about 3.68 L "in a vacuum" ...
The spark plug-less gasoline engine, you don't have to go get it at MIT, the "
CAI engine"is one and it has been developed by French automakers and the IFP for 5 years (at least) ... even if, apparently, the task is not so obvious ...
Some definitions on "new engines":
- ACCH: Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (origin Canadian research)
- HPC: Higly Premixed Combustion (origin IFP, it is the application to the industrial engine of the NADI process of IFP)
- CIHC: Compression-Ignitied Homogeneous Charge (Nadj and Foster, University of
Wisconsin-Madison)
- CIBAI: Compression Ignition By Air Injection (West Virginia University, tests on CFR engine to control self-ignition by hot air injection)
- APIR: Self-ignition Controlled by Radical Injection (research from the University of Orleans in collaboration with PSA) which positions itself as an intermediary between the classic mode and the HCCI.
We can also add the French terms decided by the commission of
terminology and which appeared in the Official Journal 2 June 2006:
- Compression self-ignition translates the term HCCI
- Auto ignition by hot gas translates the term ATAC
- Preset auto-ignition translates the term CAI
https://www.econologie.com/motorisations ... -3717.html
I also really want to talk about petrol VCR whose MCE-5 is my most successful French version:
https://www.econologie.com/forums/mce-5-le-m ... t7283.html