Influences on the cold start behaviour of a diesel engine at reduced compression ratio

The design trend for light duty diesel engines is towards lower compression ratio and higher turbocharger boost. This can enable higher specific power and lower pollutant emissions to be achieved, but raises concerns that cold start operation might be adversely affected. This is investigated and qua...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacMillan, David James
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10759/