Use of railplugs to extend the lean limit of natural gas engines

Proceedings of the 2004 Fall Technical Conference of the ASME Internal Combustion Engine Division

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 755-762

  Gao, Hongxun ^a   Hari, Sreepati ^a   Matthews, Ron ^a   Hall, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUAL FUEL ENGINES; GAS EMISSIONS; HYDROCARBONS; IGNITION; NATURAL GAS; NITROGEN OXIDES; PLASMA JETS; STOICHIOMETRY;

ELECTRON IONIZATION PROCESSES; HIGH ENERGY IGNITION SYSTEMS; IGNITION ENERGY; LASER IGNITION;

GAS ENGINES;

EID: 14044279241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/icef2004-0881     Document Type: Conference Paper

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