Combustion time in the engine cylinder and its effect on engine performance (1928)
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COaiBUSTION Tnrs m ESTGINB GYUNDEE and its effect OS PEEFOKilANCE 399 If the ignition of the charge is delayed, but the chaise is still assumed to bum completely m a single instant, the efficiency obtainable, will be less than vras the case'when the charge was burned at top center, as the Tolume… … If now the charge is burned—again instantly—with the piston in the position last con- sidered but before center instead of after center, additional work will be required to compress the burned charge to dead c.enter. However, in the absence of heat loss, this energy wiU be returned on the power…
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