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| - The Otto cycle is constructed out of: TOP and BOTTOM of the loop: a pair of quasi-parallel adiabatic processes LEFT and RIGHT sides of the loop: a pair of parallel isochoric processes The adiabatic processes are impermeable to heat: heat flows into the loop through the left pressurizing process and some of it flows back out through the right depressurizing process, and the heat which remains does the work. The processes are described by: A P-V animation of the Otto cycle is very useful in the analysis of the entire process.
- The term spark-ignition is normally used to refer to [[internal combustion engine]]s where the fuel-air mixture is ignited with a spark. The term contrasts with compression-ignition engines, where the heat from compression alone ignites the mixture. Spark-ignition engines can be either two-stroke or four-stroke, and are sometimes referred to as "gasoline engines." However, this nomenclature is not preferred, since spark-ignition engines can (and increasingly are) run on fuels other than gasoline, such as methanolhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol, ethanolhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol , CNGhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNG , hydrogenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-1 , and nitromethanehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitromethane . A four-stroke spark-ignition engine is an Otto cy
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| - The Otto cycle is constructed out of: TOP and BOTTOM of the loop: a pair of quasi-parallel adiabatic processes LEFT and RIGHT sides of the loop: a pair of parallel isochoric processes The adiabatic processes are impermeable to heat: heat flows into the loop through the left pressurizing process and some of it flows back out through the right depressurizing process, and the heat which remains does the work. The processes are described by:
* Process 1-2 is an isentropic compression of the air as the piston moves from bottom dead centre (BDC) to top dead centre (TDC).
* Process 2-3 is a constant-volume heat transfer to the air from an external source while the piston is at top dead centre. This process is intended to represent the ignition of the fuel-air mixture and the subsequent rapid burning.
* Process 3-4 is an isentropic expansion (power stroke).
* Process 4-1 completes the cycle by a constant-volume process in which heat is rejected from the air while the piston is a bottom dead centre. The Otto cycle consists of adiabatic compression, heat addition at constant volume, adiabatic expansion, and rejection of heat at constant volume. In the case of a four-stroke Otto cycle, technically there are two additional processes: one for the exhaust of waste heat and combustion products (by isobaric compression), and one for the intake of cool oxygen-rich air (by isobaric expansion); however, these are often omitted in a simplified analysis. Even though these two processes are critical to the functioning of a real engine, wherein the details of heat transfer and combustion chemistry are relevant, for the simplified analysis of the thermodynamic cycle, it is simpler and more convenient to assume that all of the waste-heat is removed during a single volume change. A P-V animation of the Otto cycle is very useful in the analysis of the entire process.
- The term spark-ignition is normally used to refer to [[internal combustion engine]]s where the fuel-air mixture is ignited with a spark. The term contrasts with compression-ignition engines, where the heat from compression alone ignites the mixture. Spark-ignition engines can be either two-stroke or four-stroke, and are sometimes referred to as "gasoline engines." However, this nomenclature is not preferred, since spark-ignition engines can (and increasingly are) run on fuels other than gasoline, such as methanolhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol, ethanolhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol , CNGhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNG , hydrogenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-1 , and nitromethanehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitromethane . A four-stroke spark-ignition engine is an Otto cycle engine. Until recently, a major distinction between spark-ignition and compression-ignition engines has been where the fuel is mixed - spark-ignition engines mix fuel outside the the cylinders and compression-ignition engines mix fuel inside the cylinders. However, both two-stroke and four-stroke spark-ignition engines are increasingly being designed with direct injection, eliminating this distinction.
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