This innovative engine could save fuel up to 10%РІР‚вЂњ18% in all frequently-used working conditions of a general vehicle IC engine. According to the simulation results, compared with the original engine, the fuel saving rate map of the 2/4-stroke switchable secondary expansion IC engine was made by combining the high fuel saving rate conditions of the 2-stroke and 4-stroke working modes. Most cars these days have either 4 cylinder 6 cylinder or 8 cylinder motors, this means that there are either 4, 6. This exothermic reaction of a fuel with an oxidizer creates gases of high temperature and pressure, which are permitted to expand. In recent days the majority of automobile runs on a four-stroke cycle. Suction-Compression-Power-Exhaust) completes in two revolutions of the crankshaft.Therefore, the engine is called a Four-stroke engine. The experiment results showed that the fuel consumption of the engine working on the 4-stroke secondary expansion mode was lower than that of the original engine. The internal combustion engine is a heat engine in which the burning of a fuel occurs in a confined space called a combustion chamber. A four-stroke engine is an Internal combustion engine, where four successive strokes (i.e. A GT-Power simulation model was established as the supplement of the experiment to evaluate the 2/4-stroke switchable secondary expansion IC engine. A traditional 4-cylinder gasoline IC engine was transformed into a secondary expansion IC engine, however, without the valve time switching device, its expansion cylinder could only work on the 4-stroke working mode. In May 1876, Nicolaus Otto built the first practical four-stroke piston cycle internal combustion engine.He continued to develop his four-stroke engine after 1876 and he considered his work finished after his invention of the first magneto ignition system for low voltage ignition in 1884. The 2-stroke secondary expansion mode has great advantages in high load condition on both fuel efficiency and power output, but it is not suitable in low load condition, so the 4-stroke secondary expansion is applied to maintain the high energy conversion efficiency in the low load condition. The expansion cylinder could switch its working mode between 2-stroke and 4-stroke to perform different secondary expansion modes just by varying the valve timing.

The 2/4-stroke switchable secondary expansion IC engine is a 4-cylinder engine with two combustion cylinders and two expansion cylinders. The secondary expansion means the burned gas, after working in a traditional 4-stroke combustion cylinder, is transferred into another cylinder to expand again. To develop an internal combustion (IC) engine with high energy conversion efficiency, simple structure, and high reliability, a 2/4-stroke switchable secondary expansion IC engine concept is proposed in this paper.

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