There are plenty of articles on combustion testing, equipment adjustments, and efficiency, but few on basic combustion knowledge or understanding. To some people, promoting setting gas pressure, ...

Hybrid cars use complex powertrain systems to achieve higher driving range than gas vehicle equivalents. Here's how those ...

ABSTRACT Future emissions standards for passenger cars require a reduction of NO ₓ (nitrogen oxide) and CO ₂ (carbon dioxide) emissions of Diesel engines. One of the ways to reach this challenge while ...

The engine in your car and most motorcycles today are 4-stroke units that keep lubrication and fuel for combustion as separate parts. The 2-Stroke engine on the other hand requires the mixing of fuel ...

Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, working with colleagues at Stony Brook University, have developed a unique experimental technique to measure the flow of ...

Now, Toyota is patenting an improvement of its hydrogen-combustion engine. The tech reduces the amount of oil that can reach ...

The danger of the ever-increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere has become one of the most pressing issues of our age. As such, much research has been conducted to find ways not ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 110, Section 4: JOURNAL OF FUELS AND LUBRICANTS (2001), pp. 1626-1634 (9 pages) Dimethyl Ether (DME) is one of the major candidates for the next generation fuel for compression ...

Have you ever been driving down the highway wondering what your motor is really doing thousands of times a minute? YouTuber Matt Mikka has opened a window into the inner workings of the internal ...

Cause personal injury, such as from falling objects. Engineers, installing contractors, owners and operators, technicians, and equipment manufacturers alike have struggled with the identification, ...

Modern cars can backfire, but it's relatively rare, thanks to new engine tech. It's caused by things like an improper fuel/air mixture and faulty parts.