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Today mankind is using highly sophisticated tools which contribute to maintain the standard of living. Nevertheless, these tools have to be further improved in the near future in order to protect health and environment as well as to ensure prosperity. Two-stroke engines equipped with a carburettor are the most used propulsion technology in hand-held power tools like chain saws and grass trimmers. The shortage of fossil resources and the necessary reduction of carbon dioxide emissions ask for improved engine efficiency. Concurrently, customers demand for an easy usage with high performance at all operating conditions, e.g. varying ambient temperature and pressure and different fuels. Moreover, world-wide emission limits will be even stricter in future. The improvement of the emission level, fuel consumption and customer benefits, while keeping the present advantages of two-stroke engines, like high specific power and simplicity, are the goals of this research work.

Secondary air injection after cold start gives two effects for reduced exhaust emissions: An exothermic reaction at the hot exhaust valves occurs, which increases the temperature of the exhaust gas. It gives sufficient air to the catalyst during the cold start fuel enrichment that is necessary to prevent driveability problems. Handicaps for the wide use of air injection include space constraints, weight and price. An electrical air blower was choosen to best satisfy all these requirements. The development steps are described. The result is a three stage radialblower with extremly high revolutions of about 18000 rpm. The system configuration and the outcome are demonstrated on the new C-Class of Mercedes-Benz. The results show emission reductions higher than 50 %, while also satisfying the development goals of noise, volume, weight and cost requirements.

Lubrication of moving parts becomes less efficient in those areas where close fit limits the amount of lubricant to a very thin oil film. Journal bearings are particularly vulnerable in this respect. To test the degree of wear, a radioisotope technique was applied in which shafts and bearings were deuteron activated. Not only did the tests prove sufficiently sensitive to determine the full range of hydrodynamic lubrication, but they also identified the transition point at which poor lubrication caused journal-bearing wear. It was also found that materials of the shaft and bearings greatly influenced the amount of wear.

Conventional direct injection diesel engines for cars or light duty trucks, equipped with injection pumps of conventional types, such as distributor injection pumps and inline injection pumps, and operating at compression ratios of 18-19, are capable of offering a fuel consumption benefit of some 15% compared to chamber diesel engines. In terms of noise and exhaust emissions, and also black smoke characteristics, however, they are significantly inferior to the prechamber engine. In addition, they have a specific rated output which is some 20% lower. Only through the use of a compression ratio of 21 and high injection pressures it is possible to measurably diminish the drawbacks in respect of exhaust emissions and, to some extent, in respect of soot emissions. This in no way enhances the noise behaviour, though. For this reason, it is essential to employ measures such as injection rate shaping or split-injection.

This paper describes the exhaust emission control system designed for the new Mercedes-Benz sports car generation 300 SL and 500 SL, Remarkable features of the catalytic converters are maximum environmental compatibility, i. e. minimum of emission and noise under all driving conditions. By reduced back-pressure, they also contribute greatly to the well known requirements of a sports car: high performance and high torque over the entire engine-speed-range. Apart from an effective exhaust gas aftertreatment, great efforts were made to prevent the formation of pollutants under all driving conditions. This work is done by intelligent motor management consisting of digital spark control, mechanical-electronic injection, variable valve timing and EGR.

This paper presents the results and conclusions from a conceptual design study for a stratified charging concept. The stratified charging engine has a displacement of 64 cm3 and a four-port design with reed valves at two ports to control the bypass air. During the intake stroke of the engine, bypass air is sucked into the transfer ports to purge the air-fuel mixture present in the ports from the previous stroke back into the crankcase. This fills the transfer ports near the exhaust with pure air at the beginning of the scavenging stroke. During scavenging, the bypass air is ejected in the cylinder, shielding the exhaust against the fresh mixture coming from the ports on the intake side. This allows the hydrocarbon emissions to be reduced by over 40 %. The conceptual design study is based on an analysis of the mixture short-circuiting mechanisms and CFD investigations of the scavenging flow with charge stratification.