Gasoline Engine Management: Systems and Components

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Konrad Reif
Springer, Jul 22, 2014 - Technology & Engineering - 354 pages
The call for environmentally compatible and economical vehicles necessitates immense efforts to develop innovative engine concepts. Technical concepts such as gasoline direct injection helped to save fuel up to 20 % and reduce CO2-emissions. Descriptions of the cylinder-charge control, fuel injection, ignition and catalytic emission-control systems provides comprehensive overview of today ́s gasoline engines. This book also describes emission-control systems and explains the diagnostic systems. The publication provides information on engine-management-systems and emission-control regulations.
 

Contents

History of the automobile
2
Basics of the gasoline SI engine
8
Fuels
24
Cylindercharge control systems
32
Gasoline injection systems over the years
50
Fuel supply
76
Manifold injection
96
Gasoline direct injection
110
Spark plugs
178
Electronic Control
212
Sensors
234
Electronic control unit ECU
254
Exhaust emissions
260
Catalytic emission control
268
Emissioncontrol legislation
284
Exhaustgas measuring techniques
298

Operation of gasoline engines on natural gas
122
Ignition systems over the years
136
Inductive ignition system
152
Ignition coils
162
Diagnosis
304
ECU development
326
Index
344
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Bosch is the world ́s largest independent supplier of parts and equipment for motor vehicles. Innovations by Bosch have shaped the development of the automobile. Bosch ́s dominant technological role in many fields is demonstrated by the fact that it has the most patent applications in automotive engineering in Germany, to the European Patent Office and in the USA.

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