Understanding optimal engine operating strategies for gasoline-fueled HCCI engines using crank-angle resolved exergy analysis

Applied Energy

Volumn 114, Issue , 2014, Pages 155-163

  Saxena, Samveg ^a   Shah, Nihar ^a   Bedoya, Ivan ^b   Phadke, Amol ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Engines; Exergy; Gasoline; HCCI; Loss mechanisms; Second law

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMBUSTION; EFFICIENCY; ENGINES; EXERGY; EXHAUST GASES; GASOLINE; HEAT LOSSES;

CHEMICAL KINETIC MODEL; DELAYED COMBUSTIONS; EXERGY EFFICIENCIES; HCCI; LOSS MECHANISMS; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATING EFFICIENCY; SECOND LAW;

INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES;

COMBUSTION; ENGINE; EXERGY; FUEL CELL; HEAT BALANCE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; PRESSURE EFFECT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885942759     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.09.056     Document Type: Article

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