[EN] Growing awareness about CO2 emissions and their environmental implications are leading to an increase in the importance of thermal efficiency as criteria to design internal combustion engines (ICE). Heat transfer to ...

[EN] Control strategies such as variations in injection pressure and timing have been used by researchers to reduce in-cylinder exhaust emissions and meet legislation standards. Postinjection has been studied for several ...

[EN] High-Fidelity numerical simulations of the Thermal Runaway (TR) phenomenon on lithium-ion batteries (LIB) depict stiff system of equations that need to be solved with extremely low time-steps to ensure numerical ...

[ES] Una de las formas más efectivas de usar energía limpia y renovable es a través de su aplicación directa en vehículos eléctricos, que jugarán un papel cada vez más importante a medida que el mundo avanza hacia cero ...

A comparative study using diesel fuel and gasoline has been conducted focusing on the injection process. In this paper an experimental study has been carried out comparing the effects of the different fuels on the mass ...

Nowadays the automotive scientific community and companies are focusing part of their efforts on the investigation of new combustion modes in Compression Ignition (Cl) engines, mainly based on the use of locally lean air ...

[EN] Literature demonstrates that, for premixed low temperature combustion concepts, particulate matter cannot be directly extrapolated from soot emissions measurements, as typically done for conventional diesel combustion. ...

[EN] This work aims at studying the thermal runaway process caused by thermal abuse using different optical techniques. A commercial Samsung ICR 18,650 - 26 J cylindrical battery cell is exposed to different heating ramps ...

[EN] The current political vision to drastically reduce carbon emissions pushes the electrified powertrain into an increasingly important role in the transport sector. However, concerns related to the battery's effectiveness ...

[EN] The need to reduce the emissions coming from automobiles encourages the attempts to study different engine configurations and new combustion strategies. In this case, a two stroke engine able to operate in Controlled ...