This chapter studies the basic cycles used in reciprocating internal combustion

engines, both four stroke and two stroke. The most common four-stroke SI and CI
cycles are analyzed in detail using air-standard analysis. Lesser used cycles, including
some historic, are analyzed in less detail.

3-' AIR-STANDARD CYCLES

The cycle experienced in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine is very com-
plex. First, air (CI engine) or air mixed with fuel (SI engine) is ingested and mixed
with the slight amount of exhaust residual remaining from the previous cycle. This
mixture is then compressed and combusted, changing the composition to exhaust
products consisting largely of COz, Hz 0, and Nz with many other lesser compo-
nents. Then, after an expansion process, the exhaust valve is opened and this gas
mixture is expelled to the surroundings. Thus, it is an open cycle with changing com-
position, a difficult system to analyze. To make the analysis of the engine cycle much
more manageable, the real cycle is approximated with an ideal air-standard cycle
which differs from the actual by the following:

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 Sec. 3-1 Air-Standard Cycles 69

1. The gas mixture in the cylinder is treated as air for the entire cycle, and prop-
erty values of air are used in the analysis. This is a good approximation during
the first half of the cycle, when most of the gas in the cylinder is air with only
up to about 7% fuel vapor. Even in the second half of the cycle, when the gas
composition is mostly CO2, H20, and N2, using air properties does not create
large errors in the analysis. Air will be treated as an ideal gas with constant
specific heats.

2. The real open cycle is changed into a closed cycle by assuming that the gases
being exhausted are fed back into the intake system. This works with ideal air-
standard cycles, as both intake gases and exhaust gases are air. Closing the
cycle simplifies the analysis.
3. The combustion process is replaced with a heat addition term Qin of equal
energy value. Air alone cannot combust.
4. The open exhaust process, which carries a large amount of enthalpy out of the
system, is replaced with a closed system heat rejection process Qout of equal
energy value.
S. Actual engine processes are approximated with ideal processes.
(a) The almost-constant-pressure intake and exhaust strokes are assumed to be
constant pressure. At WOT, the intake stroke is assumed to be at a pressure
Po of one atmosphere. At partially closed throttle or when supercharged,
inlet pressure will be some constant value other than one atmosphere. The
exhaust stroke pressure is assumed constant at one atmosphere.
(b) Compression strokes and expansion strokes are approximated by isen-
tropic processes. To be truly isentropic would require these strokes to be
reversible and adiabatic. There is some friction between the piston and
cylinder walls but, because the surfaces are highly polished and lubricated,
this friction is kept to a minimum and the processes are close to frictionless
and reversible. If this were not true, automobile engines would wear out
long before the 150-200 thousand miles which they now last if properly
maintained. There is also fluid friction because of the gas motion within
the cylinders during these strokes. This too is minimal. Heat transfer for
anyone stroke will be negligibly small due to the very short time involved
for that single process. Thus, an almost reversible and almost adiabatic
process can quite accurately be approximated with an isentropic process.
(c) The combustion process is idealized by a constant-volume process (SI
cycle), a constant-pressure process (CI cycle), or a combination of both (CI
Dual cycle).
(d) Exhaust blowdown is approximated by a constant-volume process.
(e) All processes are considered reversible.

In air-standard cycles, air is considered an ideal gas such that the following
ideal gas relationships can be used:
 m = mixture of all gases
For thermodynamic analysis the specific heats of air can be treated as func-
tions of temperature, which they are, or they can be treated as constants, which
simplifies calculations at a slight loss of accuracy. In this textbook, constant specific
heat analysis will be used. Because of the high temperatures and large temperature
range experienced during an engine cycle, the specific heats and ratio of specific
heats k do vary by a fair amount (see Table A-I in the Appendix). At the low-tem-
perature end of a cycle during intake and start of compression, a value of k = 1.4 is
correct. However, at the end of combustion the temperature has risen such that
k = 1.3 would be more accurate. A constant average value between these extremes
is found to give better results than a standard condition (25°C) value, as is often used
in elementary thermodynamics textbooks. When analyzing what occurs within
engines during the operating cycle and exhaust flow, this book uses the following air
property values:
3-2 OTTO CYCLE

The cycle of a four-stroke, SI, naturally aspirated engine at WOT is shown in Fig.
2-6. This is the cycle of most automobile engines and other four-stroke SI engines.
For analysis, this cycle is approximated by the air-standard cycle shown in Fig. 3-l.
This ideal air-standard cycle is called an Otto cycle, named after one of the early
developers of this type of engine.
The intake stroke of the Otto cycle starts with the piston at TDC and is a
constant-pressure process at an inlet pressure of one atmosphere (process 6-1 in Fig.
3-1). This is a good approximation to the inlet process of a real engine at WOT,
which will actually be at a pressure slightly less than atmospheric due to pressure
losses in the inlet air flow. The temperature of the air during the inlet stroke is
increased as the air passes through the hot intake manifold. The temperature at
point 1 will generally be on the order of 25° to 35°C hotter than the surrounding air
temperature.
The second stroke of the cycle is the compression stroke, which in the Otto
cycle is an isentropic compression from BDC to TDC (process 1-2). This is a good
approximation to compression in a real engine, except for the very beginning and
the very end of the stroke. In a real engine, the beginning of the stroke is affected by
the intake valve not being fully closed until slightly after BDC. The end of compres-
sion is affected by the firing of the spark plug before TDC. Not only is there an
increase in pressure during the compression stroke, but the temperature within the
cylinder is increased substantially due to compressive heating.
The compression stroke is followed by a constant-volume heat input process
2-3 at TDC. This replaces the combustion process of the real engine cycle, which
occurs at close to constant-volume conditions. In a real engine combustion is
started slightly bTDC, reaches its maximum speed near TDC, and is terminated a
 little aTDC. During combustion or heat input, a large amount of energy is added to
the air within the cylinder. This energy raises the temperature of the air to very high
values, giving peak cycle temperature at point 3. This increase in temperature during
a closed constant-volume process results in a large pressure rise also. Thus, peak
cycle pressure is also reached at point 3.
The very high pressure and enthalpy values within the system at TDC generate
the power stroke (or expansion stroke) which follows combustion (process 3-4).
High pressure on the piston face forces the piston back towards BDC and produces
the work and power output of the engine. The power stroke of the real engine cycle
is approximated with an isentropic process in the Otto cycle. This is a good approx-
imation, subject to the same arguments as the compression stroke on being
frictionless and adiabatic. In a real engine, the beginning of the power stroke is
affected by the last part of the combustion process. The end of the power stroke is
affected by the exhaust valve being opened before BDC. During the power stroke,
values of both the temperature and pressure within the cylinder decrease as volume
increases from TDC to BDC.
74 Engine Cycles Chap. 3

Near the end of the power stroke of a real engine cycle, the exhaust valve is
opened and the cylinder experiences exhaust blowdown. A large amount of exhaust
gas is expelled from the cylinder, reducing the pressure to that of the exhaust mani-
fold. The exhaust valve is opened bBDC to allow for the finite time of blowdown to
occur. It is desirable for blowdown to be complete by BDC so that there is no high
pressure in the cylinder to resist the piston in the following exhaust stroke. Blow-
down in a real engine is therefore almost, but not quite, constant volume. A large
quantity of enthalpy is carried away with the exhaust gases, limiting the thermal effi-
ciency of the engine. The Otto cycle replaces the exhaust blowdown open-system
process of the real cycle with a constant-volume pressure reduction, closed-system
process 4-5. Enthalpy loss during this process is replaced with heat rejection in the
engine analysis. Pressure within the cylinder at the end of exhaust blowdown has
been reduced to about one atmosphere, and the temperature has been substantially
reduced by expansion cooling.
The last stroke of the four-stroke cycle now occurs as the piston travels from
BDC to TDC. Process 5-6 is the exhaust stroke that occurs at a constant pressure of
one atmosphere due to the open exhaust valve. This is a good approximation to the
real exhaust stroke, which occurs at a pressure slightly higher than the surrounding
pressure due to the small pressure drop across the exhaust valve and in the exhaust
system.
At the end of the exhaust stroke the engine has experienced two revolutions,
the piston is again at TDC, the exhaust valve closes, the intake valve opens, and a
new cycle begins. '
When analyzing an Otto cycle, it is more convenient to work with specific
properties by dividing by the mass within the cylinder. Figure 3-2 shows the Otto
cycle in P-v and T-s coordinates. It is not uncommon to find the Otto cycle shown
with processes 6-1 and 5-6 left off the figure. The reasoning to justify this is that
these two processes cancel each other thermodynamically and are not needed in
analyzing the cycle.
3-3 REAL AIR-FUEL ENGINE CYCLES

The actual cycle experienced by an internal combustion engine is not, in the true
sense, a thermodynamic cycle. An ideal air-standard thermodynamic cycle Occurs
on a closed system of constant composition. This is not what actually happens in an
IC engine, and for this reason air-standard analysis gives, at best, only approxima-
tions to actl;lal conditions and outputs. Major differences include:

1. Real engines operate on an open cycle with changing composition. Not only
does the inlet gas composition differ from what exits, but often the mass flow rate is
not the same. Those engines which add fuel into the cylinders after air induction is
complete (CI engines and some SI engines) change the amount of mass in the gas
composition part way through the cycle. There is a greater gaseous mass exiting the
engine in the exhaust than what entered in the induction process. This can be on the
order of several percent. Other engines carry liquid fuel droplets with the inlet air
which are idealized as part of the gaseous mass in air-standard analysis. During com-
bustion, total mass remains about the same but molar quantity changes. Finally,
there is a loss of mass during the cycle due to crevice flow and blowby past the pis-
tons. Most of crevice flow is a temporary loss of mass from the cylinder, but because
it is greatest at the start of the power stroke, some output work is lost during expan-
sion. Blowby can decrease the amount of mass in the cylinders by as much as 1 %
during compression and combustion. This is discussed in greater detail in Chapter 6.
2. Air-standard analysis treats the fluid flow through the entire engine as air
and approximates air as an ideal gas. In a real engine inlet flow may be all air, or it
may be air mixed with up to 7% fuel, either gaseous or as liquid droplets, or both.
During combustion the composition is then changed to a gas mixture of mostly
COz, Hz 0, and Nz, with lesser amounts of CO and hydrocarbon vapor. In CI
engines there will also be solid carbon particles in the combustion products gas mix-
ture. Approximating exhaust products as air simplifies analysis but introduces some
error.
Even if all fluid in an engine cycle were air, some error would be introduced by
assuming it to be an ideal gas with constant specific heats in air-standard analysis. At
82 Engine Cycles Chap. 3

the low pressures of inlet and exhaust, air can accurately be treated as an ideal gas,
but at the higher pressures during combustion, air will deviate from ideal gas behav-
ior. A more serious error is introduced by assuming constant specific heats for the
analysis. Specific heats of a gas have a fairly strong dependency on temperature and
can vary as much as 30% in the temperature range of an engine (for air, cp = 1.004
kJ/kg-K at 300 K and cp = 1.292 kJ/kg-K at 3000 K [73]); see Review Problem 3-5.
3. There are heat losses during the cycle of a real engine which are neglected
in air-standard analysis. Heat loss during combustion lowers actual peak tempera-
ture and pressure from what is predicted. The actual power stroke, therefore, starts
at a lower pressure, and work output during expansion is decreased. Heat transfer
continues during expansion, and this lowers the temperature and pressure below the
ideal isentropic process towards the end of the power stroke. The result of heat
transfer is a lower indicated thermal efficiency than predicted by air-standard analy-
sis. Heat transfer is also present during compression, which deviates the process
from isentropic. However, this is less than during the expansion stroke due to the
lower temperatures at this time.
4. Combustion requires a short but finite time to occur, and heat addition is
not instantaneous at TDC, as approximated in an Otto cycle. A fast but finite flame
speed is desirable in an engine. This results in a finite rate of pressure rise in the
cylinders, a steady force increase on the piston face, and a smooth engine cycle. A
supersonic detonation would give almost instantaneous heat addition to a cycle, but
would result in a.rough cycle and quick engine destruction. Because of the finite
time required, combustion is started before TDC and ends after IDC, not at con-
stant volume as in air-standard analysis. By starting combustion bTDC, cylinder
pressure increases late in the compression stroke, requiring greater negative work in
that stroke. Because combustion is not completed until aTDC, some power is lost at
the start of the expansion stroke (see Fig. 2-6). Another loss in the combustion
process of an actual engine occurs because combustion efficiency is less than 100%.
This happens because of less than perfect mixing, local variations in temperature
and air-fuel due to turbulence, flame quenching, etc. SI engines will generally have
a combustion efficiency of about 95%, while CI engines are generally about 98%
efficient.
5. The blowdown process requires a finite real time and a finite cycle time, and
does not occur at constant volume as in air-standard analysis. For this reason, the
exhaust valve must open 40° to 60° bBDC, and output work at the latter end of
expansion is lost.
6. In an actual engine, the intake valve is not closed until after bottom-de ad-
center at the end of the intake stroke. Because of the flow restriction of the valve, air
is still entering the cylinder at BDC, and volumetric efficiency would be lower if the
valve closed here. Because of this, however, actual compression does not start at
BDC but only after the inlet valve closes. With ignition then occurring before top-
dead-center, temperature and pressure rise before combustion is less than predicted
by air-standard analysis.
 Sec. 3-4 SI Engine Cycle at Part Throttle 83

7. Engine valves require a finite time to actuate. Ideally, valves would open
and close instantaneously, but this is not possible when using a camshaft. Cam pro-
files must allow for smooth interaction with the cam follower, and this results in fast
but finite valve actuation. To assure that the intake valve is fully open at the start of
the induction stroke, it must start to open before TDC. Likewise, the exhaust valve
must remain fully open until the end of the exhaust stroke, with final closure Occur-
ring after TDC. The resulting valve overlap period causes a deviation from the ideal
cycle.

Because of these differences which real air-fuel cycles have from the ideal
cycles, results from air-standard analysis will have errors and will deviate from
actual conditions. Interestingly, however, the errors are not great, and property val-
ues of temperature and pressure are very representative of actual engine values,
depending on the geometry and operating conditions of the real engine. By changing
operating variables such as inlet temperature and/or pressure, compression ratio,
peak temperature, etc., in Otto cycle analysis, good approximations can be obtained
for output changes that will Occur in a real engine as these variables are changed.
Good approximation of power output, thermal efficiency, and mep can be expected.
Indicated thermal efficiency of a real four-stroke SI engine is always somewhat
less than what air-standard Otto cycle analysis predicts. This is caused by the heat
losses,. friction, ignition timing, valve timing, finite time of combustion and blow-
down, and deviation from ideal gas behavior of the real engine. Reference [120]
shows that over a large range of operating variables the indicated thermal efficiency
of an actual SI four-stroke cycle engine can be approximated by;

(1Jt)actual = 0.85 (1Jt)OTTO (3-32)

This will be correct to within a few percent for large ranges of air-fuel equiva-
lence ratio, ignition timing, engine speed, compression ratio, inlet pressure, exhaust
pressure, and valve timing.

3-4 81 ENGINE CYCLE AT PART THROTTLE

When a four-stroke cycle SI engine is run at less than WOT conditions, air-fuel
input is reduced by partially closing the throttle (butterfly valve) in the intake sys-
tem. This creates a flow restriction and consequent pressure drop in the incoming
air. Fuel input is then also reduced to match the reduction of air. Lower pressure in
the intake manifold during the intake stroke and the resulting lower pressure in the
cylinder at the start of the compression stroke are shown in Fig. 3-4. Although the
air experiences an expansion cooling because of the pressure drop across the throt-
tle valve, the temperature of the air entering the cylinders is about the same as at
WOT because it first flows through the hot intake manifold.
Figure 3-4 shows that the net indicated work for the Otto cycle engine will be
less at part throttle than at WOT. The upper loop of the cycle made up of the com-
 pression and power strokes represents positive work output, while the lower loop
consisting of the exhaust and intake strokes is negative work absorbed off the rotat-
ing crankshaft. The more closed the throttle position, the lower will be the pressure
during the intake stroke and the greater the negative pump work. Two main factors
contribute to the reduced net work at part-throttle operation. The lower pressure at
the start of compression results in lower pressures throughout the rest of the cycle
except for the exhaust stroke. This lowers mep and net work. In addition, when less
air is ingested into the cylinders during intake because of this lower pressure, fuel
input by injectors or carburetor is also proportionally reduced. This results in less
thermal energy from combustion in the cylinders and less resulting work out. It
should be noted that although Qin is reduced, the temperature rise in process 2-3 in
Fig. 3-4 is about the same. This is because the mass of fuel and the mass of air being
heated are both reduced by an equal proportion.
 If an engine is equipped with a supercharger or turbocharger the air-standard
cycle is shown in Fig. 3-5, with intake pressure higher than atmospheric pressure.
This results in more air and fuel in the combustion chamber during the cycle, and
the resulting net indicated work is increased. Higher intake pressure increases all
pressures though the cycle, and increased air and fuel give greater Qin in process
2-3. When air is compressed to a higher pressure by a supercharger or turbocharger,
the temperature is also increased due to compressive heating. This would increase
air temperature at the start of the compression stroke, which in turn raises all tem-
peratures in the remaining cycle. This can cause self-ignition and knocking problems
in the latter part of compression or during combustion. For this reason, engine com-
pressors can be equipped with an aftercooler to again lower the compressed
 86 Engine Cycles Chap. 3

incoming air temperature. Aftercoolers are heat exchangers which often use outside
air as the cooling fluid. In principle, aftercoolers are desirable, but cost and space
limitations often make them impractical on automobile engines. Instead, engines
equipped with a supercharger or turbocharger will usually have a lower compres-
sion ratio to reduce knocking problems.
When an engine is operated at WOT, it can be assumed that the air pressure in
the intake manifold is Po = one atmosphere. At part throttle the partially closed
butterfly valve creates a flow restriction, resulting in a lower inlet pressure Pi in the
intake manifold (point 6a in Fig. 3-4). Work done during the intake stroke is,
therefore,

3-5 EXHAUST PROCESS

The exhaust process consists of two steps: blowdown and exhaust stroke. When the
exhaust valve opens near the end of the expansion stroke (point 4 in Fig. 3-6), the
high-temperature gases are suddenly subjected to a pressure decrease as the resulting
blowdown occurs. A large percentage of the gases leaves the combustion chamber
during this blowdown process, driven by the pressure differential across the open
exhaust valve. When the pressure across the exhaust valve is finally equalized, the
cylinder is still filled with exhaust gases at the exhaust manifold pressure of about one
atmosphere. These gases are then pushed out of the cylinder through the still open
exhaust valve by the piston as it travels from BDC to TDC during the exhaust stroke.
 88 Engine Cycles Chap. 3

Temperature of the exhaust gases is cooled by expansion cooling when the

pressure is suddenly reduced during blowdown. Although this expansion is not
reversible, the ideal gas isentropic relationship between pressure and temperature
serves as a good model to approximate exhaust temperature T7 in the hypothetical
process 4-7 of Fig. 3-6.
T7 = T4(P7/P4) (k-l)/k = T3(P7/P3)(k-l)/k (3-37)
= T4(Pex/P4) (k-l)/k = T4(Po/P4)(k-l)/k
where: P7 = Pex = Po
Pex = exhaust pressure, which generally can be considered equal to sur-
rounding pressure
P7 is the pressure in the exhaust system and is almost always very close to one
atmosphere in value.
Gas leaving the combustion chamber during the blowdown process will also
have kinetic energy due to high velocity flow through the exhaust valve. This kinetic
energy will very quickly be dissipated in the exhaust manifold, and there will be a sub-
sequent rise in enthalpy and temperature. The first elements of gas leaving the
combustion chamber will have the highest velocity and will therefore reach the high-
est temperature when this velocity is dissipated (point 7a in Fig. 3-6). Each
subsequent element of gas will have less velocity and will thus experience less tem-
perature rise (points 7b, 7c, etc.). The last elements of gas leaving the combustion
chamber during blowdown and the gas pushed out during the exhaust stroke will
have relatively low kinetic energy and will have a temperature very close to T7.
Choked flow (sonic velocity) will be experienced across the exhaust valve at the start
of blowdown, and this determines the resulting gas velocity and kinetic energy. If pos-
sible, it is desirable to mount the turbine of a turbocharger very close to the exhaust
manifold. This is done so that exhaust kinetic energy can be utilized in the turbine.
The state of the exhaust gas during the exhaust stroke is best approximated by
a pressure of one atmosphere, a temperature of T7 given in Eq. (3-37), and a specific
volume shown at point 7 in Fig. 3-6. It will be noted that this is inconsistent with Fig.
3-6 for the exhaust stroke process 5-6. The figure would suggest that the specific vol-
ume v changes during process 5-6. This inconsistency occurs because Fig. 3-6 uses a
closed system model to represent an open system process, the exhaust stroke. Also,
it should be noted that point 7 is a hypothetical state and corresponds to no actual
physical piston position.
At the end of the exhaust stroke, there is still a residual of exhaust gas trapped
in the clearance volume of the cylinder. This exhaust residual gets mixed with the
new incoming charge of air and fuel and is carried into the new cycle. Exhaust resid-
ual is defined as:

X r = mex/mm (3-38)
where mex is the mass of exhaust gas carried into the next cycle and mm is the mass
of gas mixture within the cylinder for the entire cycle. Values of exhaust residual
 Sec. 3-5 Exhaust Process 89

range from 3% to 7% at full load, increasing to as much as 20% at part-throttle light

loads. CI engines generally have less exhaust residual because their higher com-
pression ratios give them smaller relative clearance volumes. In addition to
clearance volume, the amount of exhaust residual is affected by the location of the
valves and the amount of valve overlap.
In Fig. 3-6, if the blowdown process 4-7 is modeled as an isentropic expansion,
then:
P4/P7 = (V7/V4)k = P4/Pex = P4/Po (3-39)
P3/P7 = (V7/V3)k = P3/Pex = P3/Po (3-40)
Mass of exhaust in the cylinder after blowdown but before the exhaust stroke
will be:

m7 = VS/vex = VS/v7 = Vt!v7 (3-41)

Mass of exhaust in the cylinder at the end of the exhaust stroke will be:
mex = V6/V7 = VZ/v7 (3-42)
where v7 is calculated using either Eq. (3-39) or (3-40) and represents the constant
specific volume of exhaust gas within the cylinder for the entire exhaust stroke 5-6.
The mass of gas mixture in Eq. (3-38) can be obtained from:
mm = Vt!v1 = V2Ivz = V3/V3 = V4/V4 = V7/V7 (3-43)
Combining this with Eqs. (3-38) and (3-42):
Xr = (Vz/V7)/(V7/V7) = Vz/V7 (3-44)
V7 is the hypothetical volume of mm expanded to Po after combustion. Using Eqs.
(3-42) and (3-43), the exhaust residual can also be written as:
Xr = (V6/V7)/(V4/V4) = (V6/V4)(V4/V7) = (1/rc)(viv7) (3-45)
= (1/rc)[(RT4/P4)/(RT7/P7)]
Xr = (1/rc)(T4/Tex)(Pex/P4) (3-46)
where: rc = compression ratio
Pex = P7 = Po = one atmosphere under most conditions
Tex = T7 from Eq. (3-37)
and T4 and P 4 are conditions in the cylinder when the exhaust valve opens
When the intake valve opens, a new charge of inlet air ma enters the cylinder
and mixes with the remaining exhaust residual from the previous cycle. The mixing
occurs such that total enthalpy remains constant and:
~+~=~ ~
where hex, ha, and hm are the specific enthalpy values of exhaust, air, and mixture,
all of which are treated as air in air-standard analysis. If specific enthalpy values are
referenced to zero value at an absolute temperature value of zero, then h = cp T and:
 EXAMPLE PROBLEM 3-3
The engine in Example Problems 3-1 and 3-2 is now run at part throttle such that the
intake pressure is 50 kPa. Calculate the temperature in the cylinder at the start of the
compression stroke.

The temperature of the intake air can be assumed to be the same even though it
has experienced a pressure reduction expansion when passing the throttle valve. This is
because it still flows through the same hot intake manifold after the throttle. However,
the temperature of the exhaust residual will be reduced due to the expansion cooling it
undergoes when the intake valve opens and the pressure in the cylinder drops to 50
kPa. The temperature of the exhaust residual after expansion can be approximated
using Fig. 3-4 and the isentropic expansion model such that:

3-6 DIESEL CYCLE

Early CI engines injected fuel into the combustion chamber very late in the com-
pression stroke, resulting in the indicator diagram shown in Fig. 3-7. Due to ignition
delay and the finite time required to inject the fuel, combustion lasted into the
expansion stroke. This kept the pressure at peak levels well past TDC. This com-
bustion process is best approximated as a constant-pressure heat input in an
air-standard cycle, resulting in the Diesel cycle shown in Fig. 3-8. The rest of the
cycle is similar to the air-standard Otto cycle. The diesel cycle is sometimes called a
Constant· Pressure cycle.
 If reptesentative numbers are introduced into Eq. (3-73), it is found that the
value of the term in brackets is greater than one. When this equation is compared
with Eq. (3-31), it can be seen that for a given compression ratio the thermal effi-
ciency of the Otto cycle would be greater than the thermal efficiency of the Diesel
cycle. Constant-volume combustion at TDC is more efficient than constant-pressure
combustion. However, it must be remembered that CI engines operate with much
higher compression ratios than SI engines (12 to 24 versus 8 to 11) and thus have
higher thermal efficiencies.

3-7 DUAL CYCLE

If Eqs. (3-31) and (3-73) are compared, it can be seen that to have the best of both
worlds, an engine ideally would be compression ignition but would operate on the
Otto cycle. Compression ignition would operate on the more efficient higher com-
pression ratios, while constant-volume combustion of the Otto cycle would give
higher efficiency for a given compression ratio.
The modern high-speed CI engine accomplishes this in part by a simple
operating change from early diesel engines. Instead of injecting the fuel late in the
compression stroke near TDC, as was done in early engines, modern CI engines start
to inject the fuel much earlier in the cycle, somewhere around 20° bTDC. The first
fuel then ignites late in the compression stroke, and some of the combustion occurs
almost at constant volume at TDC, much like the Otto cycle. A typical indicator dia-
gram for a modern CI engine is shown in Fig. 3-9. Peak pressure still remains high into
the expansion stroke due to the finite time required to inject the fuel. The last of the
fuel is still being injected at TDC, and combustion of this fuel keeps the pressure high
into the expansion stroke. The resulting cycle shown in Fig. 3-9 is a cross between an
SI engine cycle and the early CI cycles. The air-standard cycle used to analyze this
modern CI engine cycle is called a Dual cycle, or sometimes a Limited Pressure cycle
(Fig. 3-10). It is a dual cycle because the heat input process of combustion can best be
approximated by a dual process of constant volume followed by constant pressure. It
can also be considered a modified Otto cycle with a limited upper pressure.

Thermodynamic Analysis of Air-Standard Dual Cycle

The analysis of an air-standard Dual cycle is the same as that of the Diesel cycle
except for the heat input process (combustion) 2-x-3.
3-8 COMPARISON OF OTTO, DIESEL, AND DUAL CYCLES

Figure 3-11 compares Otto, Diesel, and Dual cycles with the same inlet conditions
and the same compression ratios. The thermal efficiency of each cycle can be written
as:
TIt = 1- Iqout I/Iqin I (3-90)
The area under the process lines on T-s coordinates is equal to the heat trans-
fer, so in Fig. 3-11(b) the thermal efficiencies can be compared. For each cycle, qout
is the same (process 4-1). qin of each cycle is different, and using Fig. 3-11(b) and Eq.
(3-90) it is found for these conditions:
( TIt )OTIO > (TIt )DUAL > (TIt )DIESEL (3-91)
However, this is not the best way to compare these three cycles, because they
do not operate on the same compression ratio. Compression ignition engines that
operate on the Dual cycle or Diesel cycle have much higher compression ratios than
do spark ignition engines operating on the Otto cycle. A more realistic way to com-
pare these three cycles would be to have the same peak pressure-an actual design
limitation in engines. This is done in Fig. 3-12. When this figure is compared with
Eq. (3-90), it is found:
( TIt )DIESEL > (TIt )DUAL > (TIt )OTIO (3-92)
Comparing the ideas of Eqs. (3-91) and (3-92) would suggest that the most effi-
cient engine would have combustion as close as possible to constant volume but
would be compression ignition and operate at the higher compression ratios which
that requires. This is an area where more research and development is needed.

EXAMPLE PROBLEM 3-4

A small truck has a four-cylinder, four-liter CI engine that operates on the air-standard
Dual cycle (Fig. 3-10) using light diesel fuel at an air-fuel ratio of 18. The compression
ratio of the engine is 16:1 and the cylinder bore diameter is 10.0 cm. At the start of the
compression stroke, conditions in the cylinders are 60°C and 100 KPa with a 2%
exhaust residual. It can be assumed that half of the heat input from combustion is
added at constant volume and half at constant pressure.
Calculate:
1. temperature and pressure at each state of the cycle
3-9 MILLER CYCLE

The Miller cycle, named after R. H. Miller (1890-1967), is a modern modification of

the Atkinson cycle and has an expansion ratio greater than the compression ratio.
This is accomplished, however, in a much different way. Whereas an engine
designed to operate on the Atkinson cycle needed a complicated mechanical linkage
system of some kind, a Miller cycle engine uses unique valve timing to obtain the
same desired results.
Air intake in a Miller cycle is unthrottled. The amount of air ingested into each
cylinder is then controlled by closing the intake valve at the proper time, long before
 Figure 3-14 Air-standard Miller cycle
for unthrottled naturally aspirated four-
stroke cycle SI engine. If the engine has
early intake valve closing, the cycle will be
6-7-1-7-2-3-4-5-7-6. If the engine has late
intake valve closing, the cycle will be 6-7-
5-7-2-3-4-5-7-6.

BDC (point 7 in Fig. 3-14). As the piston then continues towards BDC during the lat-
ter part of the intake stroke, cylinder pressure is reduced along process 7-1. When the
piston reaches BDC and starts back towards TDC cylinder pressure is again increased
during process 1-7. The resulting cycle is 6-7-1-7-2-3-4-5-6. The work produced in the
first part of the intake process 6-7 is canceled by part of the exhaust stroke 7-6, process
7-1 is canceled by process 1-7, and the net indicated work is the area within loop 7-2-3-
4-5-7. There is essentially no pump work. The compression ratio is:
rc = V7/V2 (3-93)
and the larger expansion ratio is:
re = V4/V2 = V4/V3 (3-94)
The shorter compression stroke which absorbs work, combined with the
longer expansion stroke which produces work, results in a greater net indicated
work per cycle. In addition, by allowing air to flow through the intake system
unthrottled, a major loss experienced by most SI engines is eliminated. This is espe-
cially true at part throttle, when an Otto cycle engine would experience low pressure
in the intake manifold and a corresponding high negative pump work. The Miller
 Sec.3-9 Miller Cycle 105

cycle engine has essentially no pump work (ideally none), much like a CI engine.
This results in higher thermal efficiency.
The mechanical efficiency of a Miller cycle engine would be about the same as
that of an Otto cycle engine, which has a similar mechanical linkage system. An
Atkinson cycle engine, on the other hand, requires a much more complicated
mechanical linkage system, resulting in lower mechanical efficiency.
Another variation of this cycle can be obtained if the intake air is unthrottled
and the intake valve is closed after BDC. When this is done, air is ingested during
the entire intake stroke, but some of it is then forced back into the intake manifold
before the intake valve closes. This results in cycle 6-7-5-7-2-3-4-5-6 in Fig. 3-14. The
net indicated work is again the area within loop 7-2-3-4-5-7, with the compression
and expansion ratios given by Eqs. (3-93) and (3-94).
For either variation of the cycle to work efficiently, it is extremely important to
be able to close the intake valve at the precise correct moment in the cycle (point 7).
However, this point where the intake valve must close changes as the engine speed
and/or load is changed. This control was not possible until variable valve timing was
perfected and introduced. Automobiles with Miller cycle engines were first mar-
keted in the latter half of the 1990s. A typical value of the compression ratio is about
8:1, with an expansion ratio of about 10:1.
The first production automobile engines operating on Miller cycles used both
early intake valve closing methods and late intake valve closing methods. Several
types of variable valve timing systems have been tried and are being developed. At
present, none of these offer full flexibility, and major improvements are still needed.
If the intake valve is closed bBDC, less than full displacement volume of the
cylinder is available for air ingestion. If the intake valve is closed aBDC, the full dis-
placement volume is filled with air, but some of it is expelled out again before the
valve is closed (process 5-7 in Fig. 3-14). In either case, less air and fuel end up in the
cylinder at the start of compression, resulting in low output per displacement and
low indicated mean effective pressure. To counteract this, Miller cycle engines are
usually supercharged or turbocharged with peak intake manifold pressures of
150-200 kPa. Fig. 3-15 shows a supercharged Miller engine cycle.
EXAMPLE PROBLEM 3-5
The four-cylinder,2.5-literSI automobile engine of Example Problem 3-1 is converted
to operate on an air-standard Miller cyclewith early valve closing(cycle6-7-1-7-2-3-4-
5-6 in Fig. 3-15). It has a compression ratio of 8:1 and an expansion ratio of 10:1.A
supercharger is added that givesa cylinder pressure of 160KPa when the intake valve
closes,as shownin Fig.3-15.The temperature is again 60°Cat this point. The same fuel
and AF are used with combustion efficiency 17c = 100%.
Calculate:
1. temperature and pressure at all points in the cycle
2. indicated thermal efficiency
3. indicated mean effectivepressure
4. exhaust temperature
3-10 COMPARISON OF MILLER CYCLE AND OTTO CYCLE

When the Otto cycle engine of Example Problems 3-1 and 3-2 is compared with a
similar engine operating on a Miller cycle as in Example Problem 3-5, the superior-
ity of the Miller cycle can be seen. Table 3-1 gives such a comparison.
Temperatures in the two cycles are about the same, except for the exhaust
temperature. It is important that the temperature at the beginning of combustion
for either cycle be low enough so that self-ignition and knock do not become prob-
lems. The lower exhaust temperature of the Miller cycle is the result of greater
expansion cooling that occurs from the essentially same maximum cycle tempera-
ture. Lower exhaust temperature means less energy is lost in the exhaust, with more
of it used as work output in the longer expansion stroke. Pressures throughout the
Miller cycle are higher than those of the Otto cycle, mainly because of the super-
charged input. The output parameters of imep, thermal efficiency, and work are all
higher for the Miller cycle, showing the technical superiority of this cycle. Some of
the indicated work and indicated thermal efficiency of the Miller cycle will be lost
due to the need to drive the supercharger. Even with this considered, however,
brake work and brake thermal efficiency will be substantially greater than in an
Otto cycle engine. If a turbocharger were used instead of a supercharger, brake out-
put parameter values would be even higher. One cost of this higher output is the
greater complexity of the valve system of the Miller cycle engine, and the corre-
sponding higher manufacturing costs.

TABLE 3-1 COMPARISON OF OTTO AND MILLER CYCLES

Miller Cycle Otto Cycle

Temperature at start of combustion Tz: 689 K 707 K

Pressure at start of combustion Pz: 2650 kPa 1826 kPa
Maximum temperature T3: 3908 K 3915 K
Maximum pressure P3: 15,031kPa 10,111 kPa
Exhaust temperature: 1066 K 1183 K
Indicated net work per cylinder
per cycle for same Qin: 1.380kJ 1.030 kJ
Indicated thermal efficiency: 56.6 % 52.9 %
Indicated mean effective pressure: 2208 kPa 1649 kPa
110 Engine Cycles Chap. 3

Process 3-4-5-intake, and exhaust scavenging.

Exhaust port open and intake port open:
Intake air entering at an absolute pressure on the order of 140-180 kPa fills
and scavenges the cylinder. Scavenging is a process in which the air pushes out most
of the remaining exhaust residual from the previous cycle through the open exhaust
port into the exhaust system, which is at about one atmosphere pressure. The piston
uncovers the intake port at point 3, reaches BDC at point 4, reverses direction, and
again closes the intake port at point 5. In some engines fuel is mixed with the incom-
ing air. In other engines the fuel is injected later, after the exhaust port is closed.

Many compression ignition engines-especially large ones-operate on two-stroke

cycles. These cycles can be approximated by the air-standard cycle shown in Fig.
3-17. This cycle is the same as the two-stroke SI cycle except for the fuel input and
combustion process. Instead of adding fuel to the intake air or early in the compres-
sion process, fuel is added with injectors late in the compression process, the same as
with four-stroke cycle CI engines. Heat input or combustion can be approximated
by a two-step (dual) process .
•
around since 1816, and while it is not a true internal combustion engine, it is
included here briefly because it is a heat engine used to propel vehicles as one of its
applications. The basic engine uses a free-floating, double-acting piston with a gas
chamber on both ends of the cylinder. Combustion does not occur within the cylin-
der, but the working gas is heated with an external combustion process. Heat input
can also come from solar or nuclear sources. Engine output is usually a rotating
shaft [8].
A Stirling engine has an internal regeneration process using a heat exchanger.
Ideally, the heat exchanger uses the rejected heat in process 4-1 to preheat the
internal working fluid in the heat addition process 2-3. The only heat transfers with
the surroundings then occur with a heat addition process 3-4 at one maximum tem-
perature Thigh, and a heat rejection process 1-2 at one minimum temperature Tlow. If
the processes in the air-standard cycle in Fig. 3-18 can be considered reversible, the
thermal efficiency of the cycle will be:
(1Jt)sTIRLING = 1- (Tlow/Thigh) (3-116)
This is the same thermal efficiency as a Carnot cycle and is the theoretical
maximum possible. Although a real engine cannot operate reversibly, a well-
designed Stirling engine can have a very high thermal efficiency. This is one of the
attractions which is generating interest in this type of engine. Other attractions
include low emissions with no catalytic converter and the flexibility of many possible
 Sec. 3-13 Lenoir Cycle 113

fuels that can be used. This is because heat input is from a continuous steady-state
combustion in an external chamber at a relatively low temperature around 1000 K.
Fuels used have included gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, alcohol, and natural gas. In
some engines, the fuel can be changed with no adjustments needed.
Problems with Stirling engines include sealing, warm-up time needed, and high
cost. Other possible applications include refrigeration, stationary power, and heat-
ing of buildings.

HISTORIC-LENOIR ENGINE
One ofthe first successful engines developed during the second half
of the 1800s was the Lenoir engine (Fig. 3-19). Several hundred of these
were built in the 1860s. They operated on a two-stroke cycle and had
mechanical efficiencies up to 5% and power output up to 4.5 kW (6 hp).
The engines were double acting, with combustion occurring on both ends
of the piston. This gave two power strokes per revolution from a single
cylinder [29].

3-13 LENOIR CYCLE

The Lenoir cycle is approximated by the air-standard cycle shown in Fig. 3-20. The
first half of the first stroke was intake, with air-fuel entering the cylinder at atmos-
pheric pressure (process 1-2 in Fig. 3-20). At about halfway through the first stroke,
the intake valve was closed and the air-fuel mixture was ignited without any com-
pression. Combustion raised the temperature and pressure in the cylinder almost at
constant volume in the slow-moving engine (process 2-3). The second half of the
first stroke then became the power or expansion process 3-4. Near BDC, the exhaust
valve opened and blowdown occurred (4-5). This was followed by the exhaust stroke
5-1, completing the two-stroke cycle. There was essentially no clearance volume.

Thermodynamic Analysis of Air-Standard lenoir Cycle

The intake process 1-2 and the latter half of the exhaust stroke process 2-1 cancel
each other thermodynamically on P-V coordinates and can be left out of the analy-
sis of the Lenoir cycle. The cycle then becomes 2-3-4-5-2.
3-14 SUMMARY

This chapter reviewed the basic cycles used in internal combustion engines.
Although many engine cycles have been developed, for over a century most auto-
mobile engines have operated on the basic SI four-stroke cycle developed in the
1870s by Otto and others. This can be approximated and analyzed using the ideal
air-standard Otto cycle. Many small SI engines operate on a two-stroke cycle, some-
times (erroneously) called a two-stroke Otto cycle.
Early four-stroke CI engines operated on a cycle that can be approximated by
the air-standard Diesel cycle. This cycle was improved in modern CI engines of the
type used in automobiles and trucks. Changing the injection timing resulted in a
116 Engine Cycles Chap. 3

more efficient engine operating on a cycle best approximated by an air-standard

Dual cycle. Most small CI engines and very large CI engines operate on a two-stroke
cycle.
At present, most automobile engines operate on the four-stroke Otto cycle,
but major research and development is resulting in two additional cycles for modem
vehicles. Several companies have done major development work to try to create an
automobile engine that would operate on an SI two-stroke cycle. Throughout his-
tory, two-stroke cycle automobile engines have periodically appeared with varying
success. These offer greater power per unit weight, but none would pass modem
emission standards. Recent development has concentrated on producing an engine
that would satisfy pollution laws. The major technological change is the input of fuel
by injection directly into the combustion chamber after exhaust and air intake are
completed. If this development work is successful, there will be automobiles on the
market with two-stroke cycle engines.
Advances in valve timing technology, including variable timing, have led to the
introduction of Miller cycle engines. The Miller cycle improves on the four-stroke SI
Otto cycle by closing the intake valve at a more opportune time, either early or late.
This results in an expansion ratio that is greater than the compression ratio and rep-
resents the most modem of engine cycles.

PROBLEMS

3-1. Cylinder conditions at the start of compression in an SI engine operating at WOT on an

air-standard Otto cycle are 60°C and 98 kPa. The engine has a compression ratio of
9.5:1 and uses gasoline with AF = 15.5. Combustion efficiency is 96%, and it can be
assumed that there is no exhaust residual.
Calculate: (a) Temperature at all states in the cycle. [0C]
(b) Pressure at all states in the cycle. [kpa]
(c) Specific work done during power stroke. [kJ/kg]
(d) Heat added during combustion. [kJ/kg]
(e) Net specific work done. [kJ/kg]
(£) Indicated thermal efficiency. [%]
3.2. The engine in Problem 3-1 is a three-liter V6 engine operating at 2400 RPM. At this
speed the mechanical efficiency is 84% .
Calculate: (a) Brake power. [kW]
(b) Torque. [N-m]
(c) Brake mean effective pressure. [kPa]
(d) Friction power lost. [kW]
(e) Brake specific fuel consumption. [gm/kW-hr]
(£) Volumetric efficiency. [%]
(g) Output per displacement. [kW/L]
 Chap. 3 Problems 117

3-3. The exhaust pressure of the engine in Problem 3-2 is 100 kPa.
Calculate: (a) Exhaust temperature. [0C]
(b) Actual exhaust residual. [%]
(c) Temperature of air entering cylinders from intake manifold. [0C]
3-4. The engine of Problems 3-2 and 3-3 is operated at part throttle with intake pressure of
75 kPa. Intake manifold temperature, mechanical efficiency, exhaust residual, and
air-fuel ratio all remain the same.
Calculate: (a) Temperature in cylinder at start of compression stroke. [0C]
(b) Temperature in cylinder at start of combustion. [0C]
3-5. An SI engine operating at WOT on a four-stroke air-standard cycle has cylinder condi-
tions at the start of compression of 100°F and 14.7 psia. Compression ratio is rc = 10,
and the heat added during combustion is qin = 800 BTU/lbm. During compression the
temperature range is such that a value for the ratio of specific heats k = 1.4 would be
correct. During the power stroke the temperature range is such that a value of k = 1.3
would be correct. Use these values for compression and expansion, respectively, when
analyzing the cycle. Use a value for specific heat of Cv = 0.216 BTU/lbm-oR, which best
corresponds to the temperature range during combustion.
Calculate: (a) Temperature at all states in cycle. [OF]
(b) Pressure at all states in cycle. [psia]
(c) Average value of k which would give the same indicated thermal effi-
ciency value as the analysis in parts (a) and (b).
3-6. A CI engine operating on the air-standard Diesel cycle has cylinder conditions at the
start of compression of 65°C and 130 kPa. Light diesel fuel is used at an equivalence
ratio of if> = 0.8 with a combustion efficiency Tic = 0.98. Compression ratio is rc = 19.
Calculate: (a) Temperature at each state of the cycle. [0C]
(b) Pressure at each state of the cycle. [kPa]
(c) Cutoff ratio.
(d) Indicated thermal efficiency. [%]
(e) Heat lost in exhaust. [kJ/kg]
3·7. A compression ignition engine for a small truck is to operate on an air-standard Dual
cycle with a compression ratio of rc = 18. Due to structural limitations, maximum
allowable pressure in the cycle will be 9000 kPa. Light diesel fuel is used at a fuel-air
ratio of FA = 0.054. Combustion efficiency can be considered 100%. Cylinder condi-
tions at the start of compression are 50°C and 98 kPa.
Calculate: (a) Maximum indicated thermal efficiency possible with these conditions.
[%]
(b) Peak cycle temperature under conditions of part (a). [0C]
(c) Minimum indicated thermal efficiency possible with these conditions.
[%]
(d) Peak cycle temperature under conditions of part (c). [0C]
3-8. An in-line six, 3.3-liter CI engine using light diesel fuel at an air-fuel ratio of AF = 20
operates on an air-standard Dual cycle. Half the fuel can be considered burned at con-
stant volume, and half at constant pressure with combustion efficiency Tic = 100%.
Cylinder conditions at the start of compression are 60°C and 101 kPa. Compression
ratio rc = 14:1.
118 Engine Cycles Chap. 3

Calculate: (a) Temperature at each state of the cycle. [K]

(b) Pressure at each state of the cycle. [kPa]
(c) Cutoff ratio.
(d) Pressure ratio.
(e) Indicated thermal efficiency. [%]
(f) Heat added during combustion. [kJ/kg]
(g) Net indicated work. [kJ/kg]
3-9. The engine in Problem 3-8 produces 57 kW of brake power at 2000 RPM.
Calculate: (a) Torque. [N-m]
(b) Mechanical efficiency. [%]
(c) Brake mean effective pressure. [kPa]
(d) Indicated specific fuel consumption. [gmlkW-hr]
3-10. An Otto cycle SI engine with a compression ratio of rc = 9 has peak cycle temperature
and pressure of 2800 K and 9000 kPa. Cylinder pressure when the exhaust valve opens
is 460 kPa, and exhaust manifold pressure is 100 kPa.
Calculate: (a) Exhaust temperature during exhaust stroke. [0C]
(b) Exhaust residual after each cycle. [%]
(c) Velocity out of the exhaust valve when the valve first opens. [mlsec]
(d) Theoretical momentary maximum temperature in the exhaust. [0C]
3-11. An SI engine operates on an air-standard four-stroke Otto cycle with turbocharging.
Air-fuel enters the cylinders at 70°C and 140 kPa, and heat in by combustion equals
qin = 1800 kJ/kg. Compression ratio rc = 8 and exhaust pressure Fex = 100 kPa.
Calculate: (a) Temperature at each state of the cycle. [0C]
(b) Pressure at each state of the cycle. [kPa]
(c) Work produced during expansion stroke. [kJ/kg]
(d) Work of compression stroke. [kJ/kg]
(e) Net pumping work. [kJ/kg]
(f) Indicated thermal efficiency. [%]
(g) Compare with Problems 3-12 and 3-13.
3-12. An SI engine operates on an air-standard four-stroke Miller cycle with turbocharging.
The intake valves close late, resulting in cycle 6-7-8-7-2-3-4-5-6 in Fig. 3-15. Air-fuel
enters the cylinders at 70°C and 140 kPa, and heat in by combustion equals qin = 1800
kJ/kg. Compression ratio rc = 8, expansion ratio re = 10, and exhaust pressure Fex =
100 kPa.
Calculate: (a) Temperature at each state of the cycle. [0C]
(b) Pressure at each state of the cycle. [kPa]
(c) Work produced during expansion stroke. [kJ/kg]
(d) Work of compression stroke. [kJ/kg]
(e) Net pumping work. [kJ/kg]
(f) Indicated thermal efficiency. [%]
(g) Compare with Problems 3-11 and 3-13.
3-13. An SI engine operates on an air-standard four-stroke Miller cycle with turbocharging.
The intake valves close early, resulting in cycle 6-7-1-7-2-3-4-5-6 in Fig. 3-15. Air-fuel
enters the cylinders at 70°C and 140 kPa, and heat in by combustion equals qin = 1800
 Chap. 3 Problems 119

kJ/kg. Compression ratio rc = 8, expansion ratio re = 10, and exhaust pressure Pex =
100 kPa.
Calculate: (a) Temperature at each state of the cycle. [0C]
(b) Pressure at each state of the cycle. [kPa]
(c) Work produced during expansion stroke. [kJ/kg]
(d) Work of compression stroke. [kJ/kg]
(e) Net pumping work. [kJ/kg]
(I) Indicated thermal efficiency. [%]
(g) Compare with Problems 3-11 and 3-12.
3-14. A six cylinder, two-stroke cycle CI ship engine with bore B = 35 cm and stroke S = 105
cm produces 3600 kW of brake power at 210 RPM.
Calculate: (a) Torque at this speed. [kN-m]
(b) Total displacement. [L]
(c) Brake mean effective pressure. [kPa]
(d) Average piston speed. [mlsec]
3-15. A single-cylinder, two-stroke cycle model airplane engine with a 7.54-cm3 displacement
produces 1.42 kW of brake power at 23,000 RPM using glow plug ignition. The square
engine (bore = stroke) uses 31.7 gmlmin of castor oil-methanol-nitromethane fuel at
an air-fuel ratio AF = 4.5. During intake scavenging, 65% of the incoming air-fuel
mixture gets trapped in the cylinder, while 35% of it is lost with the exhaust before the
exhaust port closes. Combustion efficiency 'TIc = 0.94.
Calculate: (a) Brake specific fuel consumption. [gm/kW-hr]
(b) Average piston speed. [mlsec]
(c) Unburned fuel exhausted to atmosphere. [gm/min]
(d) Torque. [N-m]
3-16. A historic single-cylinder engine with a mechanical efficiency 'TIm = 5% operates at 140
RPM on the Lenoir cycle shown in Fig. 3-20. The cylinder has a double acting piston
with a 12-in. bore and a 36-in. stroke. The fuel has a heating value QLHV = 12,000
BTU/lbm and is used at an air-fuel ratio AF = 18. Combustion occurs at constant vol-
ume half way through the intake-power stroke when cylinder conditions equal 70°F and
14.7 psia.
Calculate: (a) Temperature at each state of cycle. [OF]
(b) Pressure at each state of cycle. [psia]
(c) Indicated thermal efficiency. [%]
(d) Brake power. [hp]
(e) Average piston speed. [ft/sec]
3-17. Cylinder conditions at the start of compression of a four-stroke cycle SI engine are 27°C
and 100 kPa. The engine has a compression ratio of rc = 8:1, and heat addition from
combustion is qin = 2000 kJ/kg.
Calculate: (a) Temperature and pressure at each state of the cycle, using air-standard
Otto cycle analysis with constant specific heats. [OC,kPa]
(b) Indicated thermal efficiency in part (a). [%]
(c) Temperature and pressure at each state of the cycle, using any stan-
dard air tables which are based on variable specific heats as functions
of temperature (e.g., reference [73]). [OC,kPa]
(d) Indicated thermal efficiency in part (c). [%]
 120 Engine Cycles Chap. 3

DESIGN PROBLEMS

3-1D. Design an SI engine to operate on a six-stroke cycle. The first four strokes of the cycle
are the same as a four-stroke Otto cycle. This is followed with an additional air-only
intake stroke and an air-only exhaust stroke. Draw simple schematics, and explain the
speed and operation of the camshafts when the valves open and close. Also, explain the
control of the ignition process.
3·2D. Design a mechanical linkage system for a four-stroke cycle, reciprocating SI engine to
operate on the Atkinson cycle (i.e., normal compression stroke and a power stroke
which expands until cylinder pressure equals ambient pressure). Explain using simple
schematic drawings.
3-3D. An SI engine operating on an four-stroke air-standard cycle using stoichiometric gaso-
line is to have a maximum cylinder pressure of 11,000 kPa at WOT. Inlet pressure can
be 100 kPa without supercharging, or it can be as high as 150 kPa with a supercharger.
Pick a compression ratio and inlet pressure combination to give maximum indicated
thermal efficiency. Pick a compression ratio and inlet pressure to give maximum imep.