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How a Car Engine Works

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Re: How a Car Engine Works

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exDM69 wrote: post #8

Now here's a good website with nice animated illustrations. But it's all one giant animated GIF. It won't scale up or down and it's already running short on colors. This is something where WebGL would excel, you could get the full color palette and make it interactive. So far all WebGL demos I have seen are tech demos or simple games that look like OpenGL games did in 2004, and they have not been really used inside w…

Or SVG. But I don't want to take anything anyway from his effort - it's a wonderful work of art/education he's created.

Re: How a Car Engine Works

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Post by exDM69 »

tagawa wrote: post #11
exDM69 wrote: post #8

Now here's a good website with nice animated illustrations. But it's all one giant animated GIF. It won't scale up or down and it's already running short on colors. This is something where WebGL would excel, you could get the full color palette and make it interactive. So far all WebGL demos I have seen are tech demos or simple games that look like OpenGL games did in 2004, and they have not been really used inside w…

Or SVG. But I don't want to take anything anyway from his effort - it's a wonderful work of art/education he's created.

Yes, SVG would work too but it is not ideal for 3d. The ability to rotate the view and zoom in to see the details would make this infographic even better.

I wish the 3d models that were used to draw this would be shared so I could try animating them in 3d.

And don't get me wrong, I think that this was an excellent inforgraphic.

Re: How a Car Engine Works

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Post by elnate »

sitharus wrote: post #4

It's worth noting that the engine illustrated is a gasoline direct injection engine, which are fairly common on new cars but historically not so. Until the early 2000s most fuel injected gasoline engines were multi-point injection - the fuel was injected in to the incoming air stream immediately before the cylinder, and before that indirect injection which injected where the carburettor was. Then there are carburetto…

The other difference is Diesel engines ignite the fuel by compressing it rather than with a spark.

(Also Diesel is the engine type not the fuel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine)

Re: How a Car Engine Works

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Post by arethuza »

jacquesm wrote: post #5

How a gasoline car engine works, specifically a piston car engine with injection. There are lots of other variations on the theme of car engine. For instance, Diesel, Natural Gas, LPG, electricity (non-hybrid) and another configurations for the hot chamber, for instance a Wankel engine. Instead of injection there is carburation (an older, less efficient process for getting the fuel air mixture into the cylinders), an…

Not to mention superchargers and turbo and supercharger combinations (AKA twinchargers). VW's 1.4TSI is a great twincharged engine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twincharger

Re: How a Car Engine Works

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Post by stickydink »

robin_reala wrote: post #15

93 octane is premium fuel in the US? Petrol in the UK starts at 95 and premium is 98. What’s the practical difference then?

There are two measurements that can be made; RON (Research Octane Number, measuring fuel behavior at 600rpm) and MON (Motor Octane Number, measuring fuel behavior at 900rpm).

MON is typically 8-10 points lower than the RON.

In the US/Canada and some other parts of the Americas, they use the average of the two. Hence lower.

In most other places, they just use the RON.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating#Measurement_metho...

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