CLOSED LOOP ELECTRONIC CONTROL FOR THE REDUCTION OF SOOT PRODUCED IN DIESEL, GASOLINE AND ALTERNATIVE-FUELED ENGINES

摘要

A system and method of reducing soot and/or improving the efficiency of a motor. The system and method regulates the supply of cooling oil to a cooling section of a cylinder based upon observed parameters. These parameters can include such things as engine temperature, load, rpm etc. The control can be provided by using a look up table.

主权项

1. A system for cooling a piston of an internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder that receives the piston wherein the cylinder defines a combustion region and a cooling region, wherein the internal combustion engine includes an oil supply system that supplies oil to the cooling region of the cylinder, the system comprising:
one or more sensors that sense performance parameters of the internal combustion engine; an oil gating system that is controllable so that the amount of oil provided to the cooling region is adjustable; a controller that receives signals from the one or more sensors and provides control signals to the oil gating system wherein the controller determines the amount of oil to provide to the cooling region based upon the one or more sensors so that the oil provided to the cooling region of the cylinder is reduced to inhibit excess soot production.