Understanding and detecting misfire in an HCCI engine fuelled with ethanol

Applied Energy

Volumn 108, Issue , 2013, Pages 24-33

  Bahri, Bahram ^a   Aziz, Azhar Abdul ^a   Shahbakhti, Mahdi ^b   Muhamad Said, Mohd Farid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Ethanol combustion; HCCI; Misfire

Indexed keywords

ETHANOL; IGNITION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; COMBUSTION PARAMETERS; ETHANOL COMBUSTION; EXHAUST AFTERTREATMENT; HCCI; HOMOGENEOUS CHARGE COMPRESSION IGNITION; INDICATED MEAN EFFECTIVE PRESSURE; MISFIRE;

INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMBUSTION; COMPRESSION; DIESEL ENGINE; ETHANOL; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

EID: 84875792376     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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