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1 History
HCCI engines have a long history, even though HCCI
has not been as widely implemented as spark ignition or
diesel injection. It is essentially an Otto combustion cycle. HCCI was popular before electronic spark ignition
was used. One example is the hot-bulb engine which used
a hot vaporization chamber to help mix fuel with air. The
extra heat combined with compression induced the conditions for combustion. Another example is the diesel
model aircraft engine.
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Stratied charge compression ignition also relies on temperature and density increase resulting from compression. However, it injects fuel later, during the compression stroke. Combustion occurs at the boundary of the
fuel and air, producing higher emissions, but allowing a
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HCCIs autoignition event is highly sensitive to temperature. The simplest temperature control method uses
resistance heaters to vary the inlet temperature, but
this approach is too slow to change on a cycle-to-cycle
frequency.[11] Another technique is fast thermal management (FTM). It is accomplished by varying the intake
charge temperature by mixing hot and cold air streams.
HCCI engines have a small power range, constrained
It is fast enough to allow cycle-to-cycle control.[12] It is
at low loads by lean ammability limits and high
also expensive to implement and has limited bandwidth
loads by in-cylinder pressure restrictions.[7]
associated with actuator energy.
Autoignition is dicult to control, unlike the ignition event in SI and diesel engines, which are controlled by spark plugs and in-cylinder fuel injectors,
respectively.[6]
Carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbon (HC) precatalyst emissions are higher than a typical spark
ignition engine, caused by incomplete oxidation 2.4.3 Exhaust gas percentage
(due to the rapid combustion event and low incylinder temperatures) and trapped crevice gases, Exhaust gas is very hot if retained or re-inducted from the
previous combustion cycle or cool if recirculated through
respectively.[8]
the intake as in conventional EGR systems. The exhaust
has dual eects on HCCI combustion. It dilutes the fresh
charge, delaying ignition and reducing the chemical en2.4 Control
ergy and engine output. Hot combustion products conHCCI is more dicult to control than other combustion versely increase gas temperature in the cylinder and adengines, such as SI and diesel. In a typical gasoline en- vance ignition. Control of combustion timing HCCI engine, a spark is used to ignite the pre-mixed fuel and air. gines using EGR has been shown experimentally.[13]
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Variable valve actuation (VVA) extends the HCCI operating region by giving ner control over the temperaturepressure-time envelope within the combustion chamber.
VVA can achieve this via either:
Controlling the eective compression ratio: VVA
on intake can control the point at which the intake
valve closes. Retarding past bottom dead center
(BDC), changes the compression ratio, altering the
in-cylinder pressure-time envelope.
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Compression Ignition (PCCI) is a compromise oering
the control of CIDI combustion with the reduced exhaust gas emissions of HCCI, specically lower soot.[20]
The heat release rate is controlled by preparing the combustible mixture in such a way that combustion occurs
over a longer time duration making it less prone to
knocking. This is done by timing the injection event such
that a range of air/fuel ratios spread across the combustion cylinder when ignition begins. Ignition occurs in
dierent regions of the combustion chamber at dierent times - slowing the heat release rate. This mixture
is designed to minimize the number of fuel-rich pockets,
reducing soot formation.[21] The adoption of high EGR
and diesel fuels with a greater resistance to ignition (more
gasoline like) enable longer mixing times before ignition and thus fewer rich pockets that produce soot and
NO
x[20][21]
Compression Ignition Direct Injection (CIDI) combustion is a well-established means of controlling ignition
timing and heat release rate and is adopted in diesel engine combustion. Partially Pre-mixed Charge Compression Ignition (PPCI) also known as Premixed Charge
PROTOTYPES
increase power.[24] A third way is to run the engine in as Los Alamos National Laboratorys KIVA CFD code
HCCI mode only at part load conditions and run it as a and faster solving probability density function modelling
diesel or SI engine at higher load conditions.[25]
codes.[28][29]
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3 Prototypes
Because HCCI operates on lean mixtures, the peak temperatures are much lower than SI and diesels. The low As of 2012, no HCCI engines were produced at commercial scale. However, several car manufacturers had
peak temperatures reduces the formation of NO
x. However, the low peak temperatures also lead to functioning HCCI prototypes.
incomplete burning of fuel, especially near combustion
chamber walls. This leads to high carbon monoxide and
In 2007-2009, General Motors demonstrated HCCI
hydrocarbon emissions. An oxidizing catalyst can rewith a modied 2.2 L Ecotec engine installed in
move the regulated species, because the exhaust is still
Opel Vectra and Saturn Aura.[30] The engine operoxygen-rich.
ates in HCCI mode at speeds below 60 miles per
hour (97 km/h) or when cruising, switching to conventional SI when the throttle is opened and pro2.8 Dierence from knock
duces fuel economy of 43 miles per imperial gallon (6.6 L/100 km; 36 mpg-US) and carbon dioxEngine knock or pinging occurs when some of the unide emissions of about 150 grams per kilometre,
burnt gases ahead of the ame in an SI engine spontaimproving on the 37 miles per imperial gallon (7.6
neously ignite. This gas is compressed as the ame propL/100 km; 31 mpg-US) and 180 g/km of the convenagates and the pressure in the combustion chamber rises.
tional 2.2 L direct injection version.[31] GM is also
The high pressure and corresponding high temperature of
researching smaller Family 0 engines for HCCI apunburnt reactants can cause them to spontaneously ignite.
plications. GM has used KIVA in the development
This causes a shock wave to traverse from the end gas reof direct-injection, stratied charge gasoline engines
gion and an expansion wave to traverse into the end gas
as well as the fast burn, homogeneous-charge gasoregion. The two waves reect o the boundaries of the
line engine.[29]
combustion chamber and interact to produce high ampli Mercedes-Benz developed a prototype engine called
tude standing waves.
DiesOtto, with controlled auto ignition. It was disA similar ignition process occurs in HCCI. However,
played in its F 700 concept car at the 2007 Frankfurt
rather than part of the reactant mixture igniting by comAuto Show.[32]
pression ahead of a ame front, ignition in HCCI engines
occurs due to piston compression. Little or no pressure
Volkswagen are developing two types of engine for
dierences occur between the dierent regions of the
HCCI operation. The rst, called Combined Comgas, eliminating any shock wave and knocking. However,
bustion System or CCS, is based on the VW Group
at high loads (i.e. high fuel/air ratios), knocking is a pos2.0-litre diesel engine, but uses homogeneous intake
sibility even in HCCI.
charge. It requires synthetic fuel to achieve maximum benet. The second is called Gasoline Compression Ignition or GCI; it uses HCCI when cruis2.9 Simulation of HCCI Engines
ing and spark ignition when accelerating. Both engines have been demonstrated in Touran prototypes,
Computational models for simulating combustion and
and the company expects them to be ready for proheat release rates of HCCI engines require detailed
duction in about 2015.[33]
chemistry models.[17][26] This is largely because ignition
is more sensitive to chemical kinetics than to turbu In October 2005, the Wall Street Journal reported
lence/spray or spark processes as are typical in SI and
that Honda was developing an HCCI engine as part
diesel engines. Computational models have demonstrated
of an eort to produce a next generation hybrid
the importance of accounting for the fact that the incar.[34]
cylinder mixture is actually in-homogeneous, particularly
in terms of temperature. This in-homogeneity is driven
Oxy-Gen Combustion, a UK-based Clean Technolby turbulent mixing and heat transfer from the combusogy company, produced a full-load HCCI concept
tion chamber walls. The amount of temperature stratiengine with the aid of Michelin and Shell.[35]
cation dictates the rate of heat release and thus tendency
Mazdas SkyActiv-G Generation 2 has a comto knock.[27] This limits the usefulness of considering the
in-cylinder mixture as a single zone, resulting in the inpression ratio of 18:1 to allow the use of HCCI
tegration of 3D computational uid dynamics codes such
combustion.[36]
Other Applications
To date, few prototype engines run in HCCI mode; however, HCCI research resulted in advancements in fuel and
engine development. Examples include:
PCCI/PPCI combustionA hybrid of HCCI and
conventional diesel combustion oering more control over ignition and heat release rates with lower
soot and NO
x emissions.[20][21]
Advancements in fuel modellingHCCI combustion is driven mainly by chemical kinetics rather than
turbulent mixing or injection, reducing the complexity of simulating the chemistry, which results in
fuel oxidation and emissions formation. This has led
to increasing interest and development of chemical
kinetics that describe hydrocarbon oxidation.
Fuel blending applicationsDue to the advancements in fuel modelling, it is now possible to carry
out detailed simulations of hydrocarbon fuel oxidation, enabling simulations of practical fuels such
as gasoline/diesel[17] and ethanol.[19] Engineers can
now blend fuels virtually and determine how they
will perform in an engine context.
See also
Mercedes DiesOtto engine
Internal combustion engine
Gasoline engine
Diesel engine
Free-piston engine
Variable valve timing
Helical camshaft
References
[1] College of Engineering @ The University of WisconsinMadison, initiatives in energy, health, nanotechnology, security, and information technology. Engr.wisc.edu. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
[2] Zhao, Fuquan; Thomas W. Asmus; Dennis N. Assanis;
John E. Dec; James A. Eng; Paul M. Najt (2003). Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) Engines: Key
Research and Development Issues. Warrendale, PA, USA:
Society of Automotive Engineers. pp. 1112. ISBN 07680-1123-X.
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7 External links
Research, publications at Lund University, SE
Research at Chalmers University of Technology, SE
[25] Yang, Jialin; Todd Culp; Thomas Kenney (2002). Development of a Gasoline Engine System Using Hcci Technology - The Concept and the Test Results. Society of
Automotive Engineers. 2002-01-2832.
8 Further reading
Automotive HCCI Engine by Sandia Combustion
Research Facility, January 2012.
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