Internal Combustion Engines Project

For my internal combustion engines class, we needed to model an engine that met very strict and very new guidelines from the government. These new guidelines made it so engines could not spray extra fuel into the combustion chamber when under heavy loads for the purpose of cooling down the exhaust gases. The reasoning behind this is that while it is very good for the engineers and for the car, it is not so good for the environment. This causes excess pollution in the form of un-burned fuel being sent out of the exhaust. My task was t0 use a software called Ricardo Wave and accurately model an engine with the high pressures and intake temperatures that a turbocharged engine experiences and bring the exhaust temperature down. As you can see from our documentation, specifically page two, we had to then submit this project to our stakeholder, a senior engine development engineer at Ford Motor Company, and convince him that our solution was valid. This meant that we had to include all of the necessary charts and tables from all of the parameters that we were modifying. Communication was critical in this project because in the end, this project was designed to prepare us for the real world and show us what it was like to complete a project that was very open-ended.

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