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Spark Ignition Engine Operation and Design for Minimum Exhaust Emission
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Mid-Year Meeting
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Abstract
The purpose of the tests conducted on a single-cylinder laboratory engine was to determine the mechanism of combustion that affect exhaust emissions and the relationship of those mechanisms to engine design and operating variables.
For the engine used in this study, the exhaust emissions were found to have the following dependence on various engine variables. Hydrocarbon emission was reduced by lean operation, increased manifold pressure, retarded spark, increased exhaust temperature, increased coolant temperature, increased exhaust back pressure, and decreased compression ratio. Carbon monoxide emission was affected by air-fuel ratio and premixing the charge. Oxides of nitrogen (NO + NO2 is called NOx) emission is primarily a function of the O2 available and the peak temperature attained during the cycle. Decreased manifold pressure and retarded spark decrease NOx emission.
Hydrocarbons were found to react to some extent in the exhaust port and exhaust system. This reaction appears to follow the Arrhenius rate equation relationship.
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Huls, T., Myers, P., and Uyehara, O., "Spark Ignition Engine Operation and Design for Minimum Exhaust Emission," SAE Technical Paper 660405, 1966, https://doi.org/10.4271/660405.Also In
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