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Vol. 26, 20 December 2023
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Comparison of diesel engine with other engines and NOx scandal
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Abstract
This essay will focus on the comparison of the Homogenous Charged Compression Ignition engine and the Diesel engine. Diesel engine is one of the most widely used engines in the world. It uses fossil fuel such as the gasoline to get power. What is more, it does not need a spark to ignite the fuel. It uses compression method to burn the fuel. However, there is also some problems for this kind of engine, such as the greenhouse effect and the heat loss for this kind of engine. Compared to the Diesel engine, the Homogenous Charged Compression Ignition engine can mix the fuel into a correct ratio before burning. This can improve the efficiency of burning process. It can also improve the energy it released to get more power. There are several solutions to the problem. For example, to reduce the bad effect caused by the fossil fuel, people started to develop the hydrogen fuel. There are also some limitations of the hydrogen, such as expensive cost for producing the hydrogen and the hard storage of hydrogen. Use hydrogen to replace the fuel will face some problems. As a result, improving the efficiency of burning fossil fuel will also be a good choice. The essay also focuses on the scandal of diesel engines, mainly talks about the scandal of the diesel-engine transportation. Diesel engines are the most widely used engine in the world, they will release wastes, pollution and some toxic gases when they are working. Have these scandals been fixed?
Keywords
diesel engine, HCCI engine, the use of hydrogen fuel, hydrogen cell, NOx scandal
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computing Innovation and Applied Physics
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-235-0
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-236-7
- Published Date
- 20 December 2023
- Series
- Theoretical and Natural Science
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-8818
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-8826
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-8818/26/20241038
- Copyright
- 20 December 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited