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Design and Simulation of Two Stroke Engines

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Chapter 1 - Introduction to the <strong>Two</strong>-<strong>Stroke</strong> Engine<br />

Plate 1.4 Harl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Wolff uniflow-scavenged two-stroke diesel ship propulsion engine<br />

<strong>of</strong> 21,000 bhp (courtesy <strong>of</strong> Harl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Wolff pic).<br />

siasm to thinly veiled dislike. Whatever your view, at this early juncture in reading this book,<br />

no other engine type has ever fascinated the engineering world to quite the same extent. This<br />

is probably because the engine seems so deceptively simple to design, develop <strong>and</strong> manufacture.<br />

That the very opposite is the case may well be the reason that some spend a lifetime<br />

investigating this engineering curiosity. The potential rewards are great, for no other engine<br />

cycle has produced, in one constructional form or another, such high thermal efficiency or<br />

such low specific fuel consumption, such high specific power criteria referred to either swept<br />

volume, bulk or weight, nor such low acid exhaust emissions.<br />

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