Natural Gas Engines: For Transportation and Power Generation

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
 Introduction to Advanced Combustion Technologies: The Role of Natural Gas in Future Transportation and Power Generation Systems  (Kalyan Kumar Srinivasan, Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Sundar Rajan Krishnan, Vincenzo Mulone)....Pages 1-6
 Low-Temperature Natural Gas Combustion Engines  (Sotirios Mamalis)....Pages 7-27
 The Ultra-Lean Partially Stratified Charge Approach to Reducing Emissions in Natural Gas Spark-Ignited Engines  (L. Bartolucci, E. C. Chan, S. Cordiner, R. L. Evans, V. Mulone)....Pages 29-63
 Simulation and Modeling of Direct Gas Injection through Poppet-type Outwardly-opening Injectors in Internal Combustion Engines  (Abhishek Y. Deshmukh, Mathis Bode, Tobias Falkenstein, Maziar Khosravi, David van Bebber, Michael Klaas et al.)....Pages 65-115
 Prospects and Challenges for Deploying Direct Injection Technology for Compressed Natural Gas Engines  (Rajesh Kumar Prasad, Tanmay Kar, Avinash Kumar Agarwal)....Pages 117-141
 Effects of EGR on Engines Fueled with Natural Gas and Natural Gas/Hydrogen Blends  (Luigi De Simio, Michele Gambino, Sabato Iannaccone)....Pages 143-168
 Natural Gas Combustion in Marine Engines: An Operational, Environmental, and Economic Assessment  (Roussos G. Papagiannakis, Theodoros C. Zannis, Efthimios G. Pariotis, John S. Katsanis)....Pages 169-213
 Advanced Combustion in Natural Gas-Fueled Engines  (Ulugbek Azimov, Nobuyuki Kawahara, Kazuya Tsuboi, Eiji Tomita)....Pages 215-250
 Advances of the Natural Gas/Diesel RCCI Concept Application for Light-Duty Engines: Comprehensive Analysis of the Influence of the Design and Calibration Parameters on Performance and Emissions  (Giacomo Belgiorno, Gabriele Di Blasio, Carlo Beatrice)....Pages 251-266
 Design and Calibration Strategies for Improving HCCI Combustion in Dual-Fuel Diesel–Methane Engines  (A. P. Carlucci, A. Ficarella, D. Laforgia, L. Strafella)....Pages 267-296
 Dual Fuel (Natural Gas Diesel) for Light-Duty Industrial Engines: A Numerical and Experimental Investigation  (Enrico Mattarelli, Carlo Alberto Rinaldini, Tommaso Savioli)....Pages 297-328
 Cyclic Combustion Variations in Diesel–Natural Gas Dual Fuel Engines  (Kalyan Kumar Srinivasan, Sundar Rajan Krishnan, Prabhat Ranjan Jha, Hamidreza Mahabadipour)....Pages 329-358
 Emissions Control Technologies for Natural Gas Engines  (A. Wahbi, A. Tsolakis, J. Herreros)....Pages 359-379
 A Review of Residential-Scale Natural Gas-Powered Micro-Combined Heat and Power Engine Systems  (Gokul Vishwanathan, Julian Sculley, David Tew, Ji-Cheng Zhao)....Pages 381-419