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Michal Puškár1, Milan Fil'o2, Melichar Kopas1
1Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, TU Košice, Letná 9, Košice 040 01, Slovak Republic.
Abstract:
It is possible to state that presently the transport area is responsible for a considerable part of the generated greenhouse gases and that transport is one of the main polluters in urban territories. However, at the same time, it is necessary to say that vehicles equipped with internal combustion engines are always the most popular among people thanks to the undoubted advantages of the piston combustion engines. Nowadays, several hundred millions of vehicles with combustion engines within the EU and about 1.5 milliard of such vehicles worldwide are utilized. The only reasonable possibility to reduce gaseous emissions generated by the motor car transport and to keep in operation vehicles equipped with the combustion engines is utilization of new fuels, namely, synthetic fuels. A very favorable idea is the innovative technology, which is called the low-temperature combustion (LTC). The LTC technology offers high efficiency of modern internal combustion engines together with the application of new climate-neutral fuels. That is why, the LTC technology means a prospective base for the sustainable future operation of the current vehicles. This scientific article describes the dual-fuel technology, namely, optimization of combustion and also a design proposal of innovated geometric shape of the combustion chamber determined for minimization of gaseous emissions. An original LTC combustion system characterized by positive results achieved in the reduction of an emission footprint is introduced. This innovative system is also the subject of patent protection.
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