| 摘要 |
Diesel opposed piston engines, optionally with variable compression ratio and/or turbocharging, can provide improved fuel efficiency by adapting a compression ratio of the engine in accordance with an engine load such that larger compression ratios are used for smaller loads and smaller compression ratios are used for larger loads. Turbocharging can provide improved efficiency at the smaller compression ratio operating conditions. Optionally, one or more current engine parameters can be modified to maintain a peak combustion chamber temperature below a threshold temperature at which an acceptable level of nitrogen oxide pollutants (NOX) is expected to be formed. One or more swirl inducing features can be included on piston crowns in an opposed piston engine. Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, etc. are described. |
