Research Group Gas-Engines
Research Topics
- Construction and design of gas engines, corresponding test benches and relevant subsystems
- Geometry for cylinder head, piston, and combustion chamber
- Design of alternative valve timings and camshafts
- Systems for balancing moving masses
- Peripherals engine systems and components
- Assessment of different loads (e.g. thermal, mechanical, …) on the overall system at high specific loads above 30 bar mean effective pressure
- Optimization for alternative fuels such as:
- Methanol
- Hydrogen-natural gas mixtures
- Hydrogen
- Experimental development of gas engine combustion processes
- EGR for lean burn gas engines
- Methods for minimizing THC emissions
- Mechanisms for formaldehyde formation
- Investigation of extreme inlet valve timings
- Development and evaluation of dual-fuel and pilot injection combustion processes
- Design and analysis of prechamber systems
- Combustion processes for highest mean effective pressures above 30 bar
- Combustion processes for high engine power and lowest emissions
- Optical investigations of different combustion processes
- Design of optical accessibility for a single-cylinder research engine
- Simulative analysis and evaluation of different gas engine combustion processes
- Development of phenomenological combustion models for gas engines
