Sentences with phrase «for efficient combustion»

VVT uses computer mapping to open and close intake and exhaust valves at optimal points for efficient combustion and flow.

Not exact matches

Energy storage - to - torque on an EV platform is above 90 percent efficient, compared to less than 35 percent for internal combustion engines.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

The reason for this choice is that constant - speed races like the Indianapolis 500, which take place on oval tracks, are better for internal combustion engines because those are most efficient at constant speed, yet waste fuel and create extra pollution in stop - start driving.

A new high - pressure fuel pump is fitted, while revised fuel injectors provide improved fuel atomization, allowing for a more controlled, efficient combustion cycle.

In reality, 2017 was the year that traditional automakers ramped up their counter assault on Tesla's electric vehicles, with plans for everything from fuel cells and solid - state batteries to new ways to make the internal combustion engine cleaner and more efficient.

This optimises the air fuel mixture for a cleaner, more efficient combustion.

The CVCC engine debuted in 1975 and had a head design that allowed for more efficient combustion, and as a benefit the CVCC system did not require a catalytic converter or unleaded fuel to meet 1975 Environmental Protection Agency emissions standards for hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide.

Aftermarket firms can continue to benefit from demand for products to make the internal - combustion engine increasingly more fuel efficient.

Higher - pressure direct injection optimizes fuel atomization, allowing for more efficient combustion.

The combination of efficient car design, regenerative braking, turning the engine off for traffic stops, significant electrical energy storage and efficient internal combustion engine design give the HSD powered car significant efficiency advantages — particularly in city driving.

An air - to - liquid intercooler is used for packaging reasons, and the engine has the ability to switch to the more - efficient Atkinson combustion cycle under light loads.

The first two years of work focused on the combustion chamber and making the air flow and fuel burn as efficient as possible, said Jordan Lee, chief engineer for the engine program.

The high pressure paves the way for fine atomization, making the combustion process efficient and low on emissions.

Direct Injection injects fuel closer to the combustion chamber for an efficient, powerful «burn.»

This year, power is bumped up to 583 horsepower over last year's 563, a result of tuning the engine's spray, spark and timing for more efficient combustion.

The straight air intake port ends in a sharper air intake throat, reducing air resistance at all stages of air intake to the engine, improving cylinder tumble flow for faster, more efficient combustion and suppressing engine knocking.

For one, a fuel cell is far more efficient than gasoline and diesel internal combustion engines.

-- Yamaha evaluating the launch prospects of EVs in India — Company likely to focus on investments for batteries of EVs — Meanwhile, the automaker will continue to make efficient internal combustion engines

The Trump administration may be intent on lowering fuel economy standards for 2022 - 2025 model year vehicles, but automakers said last week that it won't slow the pace of their research and development to make internal combustion engines more efficient.

They feature a high - tumble intake port design that enhances the motion of the air charge for a more - efficient burn when it is mixed with the direct - injected fuel and ignited in the combustion chamber.

Low - pressure exhaust gas recirculation combined with water - air charge cooling for more efficient combustion and reduced emissions.

The B - cycle combustion process (a modified Miller cycle, earlier post), which is designed specifically for part load, makes the V6 gasoline engine particularly efficient.

Combined with an optimized combustion chamber shape, this allows for an improved fuel - air mixture and more efficient combustion, contributing to better fuel economy and improved torque at low engine speeds.

Delivering Ford's Blueprint for Sustainability The F - 150's fuel economy leadership pays off two key elements of Ford's Blueprint for Sustainability — making high volumes of internal combustion engines as efficient as possible through EcoBoost technology and achieving substantial vehicle weight savings.

High - pressure direct injection optimizes fuel atomization, allowing for more efficient combustion.

BMW's patented cross-bank exhaust manifolds are mounted inside the valley (V), making this engine a «Hot V.» The shorter pipe length means more efficient airflow on the way to the turbochargers, while a combustion chamber arrangement mirroring the firing sequence ensures a consistent level of pressure acting on the two turbochargers, without any kind of counterflow, for rapid turbine response and constant pressure charge.

You then take that ethanol and burn it into an internal combustion engine that is maybe 20 - 30 % efficient, and you end up with a tremendous amount of wasted energy... And you've used up farmland that could instead have grown food for human consumption, increasing food prices by reducing supply.

What this means in plain English is, for example, that making coal or crude oil combustion more efficient could count as climate finance.

In addition, because electric motors can be 2 — 3 times more efficient than internal combustion engines, PV can result in 200 — 300 times more useable energy for vehicle transport than bioenergy per hectare (although fully realizing this potential will require battery production to become more energy efficient).

It recognizes the growing interest and focus on a broad - based tool for highlighting highly efficient buildings which offset their energy use, regardless of location of renewables, as well as accommodating previously - built combustion - based infrastructure.

My point is that to reduce the need for drilling for oil, we must focus our efforts on making our current primary form of transportation, the internal combustion engine, more efficient and less polluting.

Fuel cells are important enabling technology for the hydrogen economy and have the potential to revolutionize the way we power our nation, offering cleaner, more - efficient alternatives to the combustion of gasoline and other fossil fuels.

But it's also the by - product of fossil fuel combustion, and when a refinery or power plant reduces its greenhouse gas emissions (by becoming more energy - efficient, for example), it also releases fewer smog - forming chemicals like nitrogen oxides, less of the sulfur dioxide and soot that can irritate lungs and cause respiratory disease, and fewer toxic emissions linked to cancer and neurological disorders.

J&D also note that by transitioning to more efficient technologies (for example, battery electric vehicles over the internal combustion engine, electric heat pumps for homes, and solar thermal energy with storage to provide baseload power rather than fossil fuels and nuclear) we can actually reduce global power production by 30 % compared to business - as - usual.

In January he joined RMIT university as an associate professor to lead a research group as part of a $ 10 million project to support «leading - edge experiments on alternative fuels for advanced and more efficient internal combustion engines» - so says the RMIT press release.

Internal combustion may be able to fight back for a time by moving to gas turbines, which are potentially about twice as efficient as a conventional diesel.

Less expensive but less efficient power plants like combustion gas turbines are useful for capacity and flexibility because they are used only infrequently.

Namely, buildings must increasingly be outfitted for electric mobility.This will increase overall electricity consumption, with the benefit that electric vehicles (EVs) are 3 to 4 times more efficient than ones equipped with internal combustion engines.

New energy sources will take time, money, and energy to discover, develop, and make efficient; they won't just magically appear complete with all the same characteristics as oil (eg, suitable for use in internal combustion engines) and with the existing zillion - dollar oil infrastructure.

But most importantly, the Prius is just the beginning of a much longer transition away from fossil fuels and toward electrification, which is a more efficient way to do things, and allows the use of many clean and renewable source of energy for transportation (which is harder to do with the internal combustion engine).

Pay attention, because this next one has some serious implications for energy and transportation policy, and infrastructure: According to research just published in the online edition of Science, rather than converting energy crops to liquid fuel for use in an internal combustion engine, it is far more efficient to convert them to electricity to power vehicles.

Current research on alternative means for combustion (e.g., fluidized bed combustion, magnetohydrodynamics, and low nitrogen dioxide burners) is expected to provide efficient and environmentally attractive methods for extracting energy from coal.