An attempt at Lean Burn of a4 Stroke Gasoline Engine by the Aid of Low Pressure Air Assisted In-Cylinder Injection

Lean burn engines now being developed employ in-cylinder injection which requires high pressures and so necessitates expensive injection equipment.

The experiments reported here used air assisted in-cylinder injection, and injected a mixture of air and fuel during the intake stroke, so allowing atomization at lower injection pressures than those necessary in compressing fuel with solid injection.

The experiments confirmed that operation in this manner resulted in similar output and fuel consumption as with a carburetor.

Next, a divided combustion chamber was installed and connected to the main combustion chamber and air assisted in-cylinder injection from a reed type injection nozzle was attempted. With this arrangement, stable idling operation was possible to air-fuel ratios (A/F) of 70. Lean burn at A/F = 22 to 35 was also achieved at maximum rated outputs (3.7 kW at 4200 min^-l) of 6 - 18 %.