Gathering of fundamental knowledge of heat engines and process modelling in reciprocating internal combustion engines. (Preliminary exams can replace written part of exam)

Student responsibilities:

Grading and evaluation of student work over the course of instruction and at a final exam:

Methods of monitoring quality that ensure acquisition of exit competences:

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to (learning outcomes):

Lectures

1. (1h) Information about subject. Classification of heat engines. Historical overview of engine and vehicles. Four-stroke and two-stroke engine (2h) Kinematics of reciprocating-piston mechanism

2. Forces in reciprocating-piston mechanism, torque, firing order, influence of engine speed and load

3. Flywheel. Basics of engine balancing.

4. Engine cycles: ideal and real cycles in four-stroke engine, volumetric efficiency, efficiency factors, mean pressure, power.

5. (1h) Overall engine performances. (2h) Gas exchange processes in four-stroke engine.

6. (2h) Two-stroke engines. (1h) Motor fuels. Heating value of air/fuel mixture.

7. Combustion in spark-ignition engines.

8. Basic terms in mixture preparation and ignition in spark-ignition engines.

9. Combustion in compression-ignition engines.

10. Basic terms of fuel injection in compression-ignition engines

11. Basics of engine processes modelling (1)

12. Basics of engine processes modelling (2)

13. Supercharging.

14. (1h) Fuel efficiency boundaries in transport application. (2h) Pollutant emissions from internal combustion engines.

15. Outdoor class: engines in Zagreb??â,¬â"?s Technical Museum

Exercises

1. Laboratory exercise: introduction to operating principles and main components of internal combustion engines.

2. Auditorial exercise: basic equations in analysis of engine operating parameters.

3. Auditorial exercise: analysis of operating parameters for four-stroke spark-ignition (SI) engine.

4. Auditorial exercise: analysis of operating parameters for two-stroke spark-ignition engine

5. Auditorial exercise: analysis of operating parameters for four-stroke compression-ignition (CI) engine

6. Auditorial exercise: analysis of indicated diagram

7. Auditorial exercise: analysis of volumetric efficiency.

8. Auditorial exercise: analysis of energy balance.

9. Laboratory exercise: devices for mixture preparation in SI and CI engines

10. preliminary exam: task in analysis of engine operating parameters.

11. Computer classroom: preparation of term paper in modelling of engine processes.

12. Computer classroom: preparation of term paper in modelling of engine processes.

13. Computer classroom: preparation of term paper in modelling of engine processes.

14. Presentation of term paper.

15. preliminary exam: several theoretical questions.

Compulsory literature:

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