Results and Publications

Research Areas & Activities Solar Energy Biomass Energy Hydrogen Advanced Combustion The Sootless Diesel An Extreme Compression Approach to Low-Irreversibility Piston Engines Low Exergy Loss Chemical Engines Optimization of Synthetic Oxygenated Fuels Sensors for Advanced Combustion Systems Coal and Biomass Char Reactivity Development of Low-Irreversibility Engines Controlled Combustion Process Informatics CO₂ Capture CO₂ Storage Advanced Materials & Catalysts Advanced Coal Advanced Transportation Advanced Electric Grid Grid Storage Other Renewables Integrated Assessment Advanced Nuclear Energy Geoengineering Exploratory Efforts All Activities Analysis Activities Technical Reports

Research

An Extreme Compression Approach to Low-Irreversibility Piston Engines

Start Date: September 2009

Investigators

Christopher F. Edwards, Associate Professor; Matthew Svrcek, Greg Roberts, and Sankaran Ramakrishnan, Graduate Researchers, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Annual Reports

Publications

Svrcek, M. N. “Exploration of Combustion Strategies for High-Efficiency, Extreme-Compression Engines.” Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Mech. Eng., Stanford University, California (2011).
Miller, S. L., M. N. Svrcek, K.-Y. Teh, and C. F. Edwards. “Requirements for designing chemical engines with reversible reactions,” Energy, 36, 1, 99-110, doi:10.1016/j.energy.2010.11.002 (2011).
Miller, S. L., M. N. Svrcek, K.-Y. Teh, and C. F. Edwards. “Assessing feasibility of increasing engine efficiency through extreme compression,” IJER (submitted, 2011).
Ramakrishnan, S., K.-Y. Teh, S. L. Miller, and C. F. Edwards, “Optimal architecture for efficient simple-cycle, steady-flow, combustion engines,” Journal of Propulsion and Power, (accepted for publication, 2011).

Updated June 2012