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Automotive Innovation ›› 2018, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (1): 43-53.doi: 10.1007/s42154-018-0007-y

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CO2 Reduction Request and Future High-Efficiency Zero-Emission Argon Power Cycle Engine

  

  1. Liguang Li1,2, Yinchun Gong1, Jun Deng1, Xuehai Gong1

    1. School of Automotive Studies, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

    2. CDHK, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  • Online:2018-03-15 Published:2018-02-13

Abstract:

To meet the requirements of strict fuel consumption and emission limits, continuously increasing the thermal efficiency of an internal combustion engine and decreasing its exhaust emissions are the main challenges to its sustainable development within the automotive industry. Considering the competition with other zero-emission powertrain systems, such as vehicle batteries and fuel cells, the development of the internal combustion engine needs to focus on producing higher efficiency and zero emissions to meet the request of CO2 reduction. This paper introduces two novel concepts for an internal combustion engine featuring high efficiency and zero emissions. Referred to as the argon power cycle engine fueled with either hydrogen or natural gas within an oxygen–argon mixture, its fundamentals and characteristics are expounded. This includes a method necessary to absorb carbon dioxide when natural gas is used as fuel instead of hydrogen.

Key words: CO2 Reduction, Argon power cycle, Internal combustion engine, High efficiency, Zero emission