Design And Analysis Of Modified Four Stroke Four Revolution Engine

Abstract

In today’s world, one of the important tasks is to handle the energy available and to minimize the heat losses. In automotive sector, engine is the primary energy source and there are many losses associated with an engine out of which engine cooling and exhaust losses takes major share. In four-stroke SI/CI engines, four strokes of reciprocating cylinder involve two rotations of the crankshaft. These strokes are suction, compression, power and exhaust respectively. A large amount of fuel energy is wasted when fuel is not compressed completely and also at the exhaust of internal combustion engines. This paper focusses on minimizing losses of internal combustion engine by secondary expansion of exhaust gases through 180 ° of crank revolution. For this purpose, four stroke four revolution mechanism is proposed and this is achieved by modifying current slider crank mechanism with double connecting rod arrangement. This modified engine shows an increase in the air standard cycle efficiency by 4.10% where as fuel air cycle efficiency rise is observed to be 5.25%. There is also significant rise observed in the modified engine over conventional engine in terms of gross indicated thermal efficiency and brake thermal efficiency as well.