| 摘要 |
A system and method for conditioning and/or vaporizing fuel within an internal combustion engine in order to effectuate more complete combustion is provided. In one embodiment of the invention, the system comprises a combustion chamber (14); a fuel conditioning cavity (22) defined by walls (21) fluidly connected to the combustion chamber; a fuel injector (18) system for ejecting a fuel spray (20) through the fuel conditioning cavity; and an electromagnetic wave source (24) electromagnetically configured for introducing electromagnetic waves (28) into the fuel conditioning cavity and into the fuel spray to effectuate volumetric heating of a droplet of the fuel spray once ejected from the fuel injector. |
