Transonic Combustion | Ultra-high Efficiency Fuel Injection Systems
In the early 1970s when emission controls started to really kill power and performance, I always wondered why the engineers kept hanging crap on engines to make them run cleaner, instead of designing them to run clean without all the crap.
The supercritical direct injection seems to be the solution at this point in time. Maybe the finish line in the pursuit of homogenous ignition of the fuel air mix at exactly the same millisecond throughout the combustion chamber.
Assuming this is that scenario, then you need to make some other changes in the vehicle to allow for elimination of any idling whatsoever, as well as limiting engine operation to only the peak efficiency regardless of vehicle load. This calls for capacitive storage of short term energy surpluses, lower RPM high load operation, with a system that autmoatically compensates, without any loss in efficiency, for any aerodymanic improvements, or any other improvement that reduces average power requirements.
In 10 years we will see a vehicle with IC power that converts 60% of the energy content of the fuel into useful work.
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Mech