Sentence examples for compression ignition from inspiring English sources

The fuel ignites of its own accord when it is injected into compressed (and therefore heated) air in the engine – a process known as compression ignition.

While compression ignition engines are efficient, burnt diesel produces greenhouse gases, noxious emissions, and particulate matter.

This is because DME is compatible with compression ignition engines, requiring only minor modifications.

Another strategy attractive to both gas and diesel engineers is called homogeneous charge compression ignition, or H.C.C.I.

One of the key challenges to establishing a domestic market for DME is co-ordinating the deployment of modified compression ignition, or diesel engines.

They are experimenting with alternative fuel combustion systems like homogeneous charge compression ignition, which changes how diesels burn fuel, helping mileage and cutting emissions.

Experimental tests are reported for a four-cylinder homogeneous charge-compression ignition engine.

Today's gasoline engines ignite their fuel with a high-voltage spark; diesels, also known as compression-ignition engines, light the fire with the heat generated by squeezing the air in the cylinders to a far greater degree.

My time behind the wheel last month was the first test drive G.M. has given to a journalist of its prototype homogeneous-charge compression-ignition engine.

Diesel engines are sometimes called compression-ignition engines because initiation of combustion relies on air heated by compression rather than on an electric spark.

It should be noted that for a given compression ratio the theoretical efficiency of the spark-ignition engine is greater than that of the compression-ignition engine; however, in practice it is possible to operate compression-ignition engines at compression ratios high enough to produce efficiencies greater than those attainable with spark-ignition systems.