Compression ignition basically is the term that is used for describing the manner in which diesel engines function. It happens when intake air—which often is combined with recirculating exhaust gas—is ...

Mazda has revealed that it will introduce a new gas engine that uses compression ignition as part of its long-term tech development dubbed "Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030." Called Skyactiv-X, the new mill ...

A.Here's a pressure-volume diagram for a combustion engine. Although rough, it is an approximation of the so-called air-standard cycle. '' Point (a) is at atmospheric pressure, after which the air is ...

Yesterday at the Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda released new info on its highly anticipated compression-ignition Skyactiv-X engine. It's all a bit daunting if you're not an engineer, but helpfully, Mazda put ...

Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines combine a diesel's torque and fuel efficiency with a gas engine's cleaner emissions. The HCCI technique has been a goal of automakers since the ...

Compression ignition engines rely on the rapid heating of air through piston-driven compression to initiate fuel autoignition, a process that underpins the performance and emissions characteristics of ...

As Mazda and Infiniti have proved, there's a lot of innovation left in the internal-combustion engine. One of the more wild concepts we've seen is called Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition ...

A few years ago sparkless ignition or homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) in gasoline engines was all the rage, with a number of major automakers including General Motors, Daimler and ...

Mazda is officially putting its advanced Skyactiv-X gasoline engine on sale—at least in Europe. The engine is coming to the U.S. market later. The automaker has also made available the first official ...

COMPRESSION IGNITION is, by convention, strictly the domain of diesels. The sparkplug-less ignition of a fuel-air mixture does however hold some promise when applied to petrol engines, and General ...