Efficiency of Gasoline Engine with Plug-in Battery Charging - Research Practice

ENGINEERING RESEARCH PRACTICE 1
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ENGINEERING RESEARCH PRACTICE 2
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Contents
The table of contents...................................................................................................................................2
List of Acronyms..........................................................................................................................................3
The problem and it setting..........................................................................................................................4
1.1 Background and Motivation..............................................................................................................4
1.2 The statement of the problem...........................................................................................................5
1.3 Research question.............................................................................................................................6
1.4 The sub-problems..............................................................................................................................6
1.5 Scope of the study.............................................................................................................................6
1.6 Assumptions......................................................................................................................................7
2.0 Literature Review..................................................................................................................................8
3.0 Research methodology........................................................................................................................11
3.1 Run the gasoline powered car at idle with the full load on the alternator......................................11
3.2 Running the same vehicle at idle position without the alternator...................................................12
3.3 Data analysis....................................................................................................................................13
3.4 The outline of the research proposal...............................................................................................13
3.5 Timeline...........................................................................................................................................14
References.................................................................................................................................................15
Appendix 1.................................................................................................................................................18

ENGINEERING RESEARCH PRACTICE 3
List of Acronyms
ICE Internal Combustion Engine
EPA Environmental Protection Agency)
PHEV Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles
BDEM Battery Driven Electric Motor
EVs Electrical Vehicles
EVSE Electrical Vehicle Supply Equipment
DAC Data Acquisition Card).
RPM Revolutions Per Minutes

ENGINEERING RESEARCH PRACTICE 4
The problem and it setting
1.1 Background and Motivation
The most eminent gasoline-fueled car was established in Germany in the year 1876. Carl Benz
initiated the first commercial manufacturing of the gasoline cars with the ICE (Internal
combustion engines) in 1885. The extended modern development stage of the gasoline vehicles
was reached in 1890s(Zhao, 2009).
The ICE (internal combustion engine) has been used in powering vehicles. The engine has
served as the key method in powering different types of vehicles mainly the traveler’s vehicles.
With the onset of Model T in the year 1908, the Ford Motor Company aided in popularizing the
cars through the mass production of the automobiles(Hassan and Kalam, 2013). With unexpected
occurrence in their affordability, availability and safety, other countries like America began a
love affair up to date. The ward’s Auto journal proves the high increase of vehicles projected to
cross to about 2 billion by the year 2035(Claxton, 2015). The tremendous increase of vehicles
comes at the cost of increased pollution from the emissions by the gasoline engine. The gasoline
engine out sends perilous gases and solid matter which negatively impacts the environment
hence the chief cause of the global warming. The high pollution from the gasoline engine
vehicles has led to clean air act by the United States in order to reduce the air
contaminations(Kalghatgi, 2015).
The first act was passed in 1970 and required the gasoline engines to emit less air pollution. In
order to achieve the set goals, the EPA (environmental protection agency) of the United States
engaged some of the following actions(Isermann, 2014). Getting rid of the leaded gasoline,
reducing the leakages of the gasoline, encouraged the use of reformulated gasoline and required