A major effort has been made to surmount the current obstacles to expanding the operating window of homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines. The research involves extensive experimental studies on single-cylinder and multi-cylinder engines and the work is devoted to the development of on-board fuel-reforming technology and to the application of supercharging combined with trapping of residual gases in the cylinder. Fuel reforming yields significant quantities of hydrogen and is used to extend the lower load boundary while supercharging and internal exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) trapping are used to increase the upper load limit of HCCI engines. The present paper highlights the main findings of the research to date; in particular it reveals that using a combination of technical elements for effective control of auto-ignition in a typical passenger car engine configuration is possible and promising.
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