US 6,981,472 B2 | ||
Homogeneous charge compression ignition control utilizing plasmatron fuel converter technology | ||
Leslie Bromberg, Sharon, Mass. (US); and Alexander Rabinovich, Swampscott, Mass. (US) | ||
Assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. (US) | ||
Filed on Nov. 17, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/715,933. | ||
Claims priority of provisional application 60/427138, filed on Nov. 18, 2002. | ||
Prior Publication US 2004/0099226 A1, May 27, 2004 | ||
Int. Cl. F02B 43/10 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 123—3 | 27 Claims |
1. A method for providing engine operating control, comprising:
reforming at least a fraction of fuel injected into an onboard fuel reformer;
injecting reformate from said onboard fuel reformer into a charge intake of an engine cylinder; and
controlling compression ignition properties of the charge intake by adjusting composition of the reformate and controlling
a temperature of said charge intake based on thermal content of the reformate generated from exothermicity of reactions in
the onboard fuel reformer.
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