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Harish Karthik Tk, Technical Engineer at Zoho Corporation (2017-present)
Answered Jun 28 In a car engine, is compression ratio related to
horsepower?
Compression Ratio is as what others have written, the ratio of volume of cylinder
when the piston is at Top Dead Center to Bottom Dead Center. How is the compression ratio of a diesel engine fixed?

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It governs how much the air-fuel mixture is compressed before it is ignited, which
inturn power.

In general increasing CR increases Power for the same CC engine. But there are
various other factors that come into picture which is why there is a threshold to how
high CR can go.

Do check out this article for further more information on how CR aects engine life
and what should the ideal CR should be.
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Shreeyash Chiddarwar, studies at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology

(2018)
Answered Feb 26
This is a gure of a piston cylinder assembly one of many used in an engine. As you
can see swept volume and clearance volume.
Compression ratio is ratio of total volume of cylinder(s) to clearance volume of
cylinder(s).

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r=Vt/Vc

More is clearance volume better is the eciency.

Diesel engines have better clearance volume, and hence have greater eciency.

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Vijay Vijju, Proud Mechanical Engineer, Automobile and Motorsport

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It's the ratio of the Actual volume of the cylinder to the Clearance volume!
Generally 13:1 in petrol engines, Means it compresses the volume to 1/13th the volume
which it actually occupied.

Happens During the compression stroke :P

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Indushekhar Kumar, studied at The Ohio State University

Answered Nov 26, 2016
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Compression ratio is the ratio, between the volume of theSearch Quora
cylinder when, the
piston is at the top position (Right Image) or Top Dead Center and the bottom
position (Left Image) or Bottom Dead Center.

The piston reaches the TDC position at the end of the compression stroke.

The piston reaches the BDC position at the end of the power stroke.

So a Compression ratio of 14:1, would mean that the volume at BDC (V1) is 14
times the volume at TDC (V2).

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Vipul Hodawdekar
Answered Nov 25, 2016
Originally Answered: What is compression ratio in engine?
Compression ratio of engine is ratio of total cylinder volume to that of clearance
volume considered for single cylinder.

Total cylinder volume consists of stroke volume and clearance volume.

Stroke volume is volume swept by piston in cylinder I.e between tdc and bdc.

Clearance volume is volume between piston at tdc and cylinder head.

We can divide total cylinder volume in to n no of parts each having area of clearance
volume.

Let clearance volume be 100 and total cylinder volume be 1000 cc respectively.

Thus at end of compression everything is compressed to 100 cc , thus it has

compressed to 1/10 th .

Thus we can say that cr is 10:1

It signies fuel is compressed to 1/10 of total volume.

Higher cr for diesel and lower for petrol and between them is for cng engines.

higher cr means greater peak pressure at end of compression resulting in more power
as more force is there to push piston down.

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Tavkheer Alam, Mechanical Engineer at the job.

Answered Apr 20, 2015

Compression Ratio is dened as the ratio of Maximum engine volume to minimum

engine volume. In Mechanical Terminology, its ratio of Total Volume to Clearance
Volume. It is fundamental specication of engine.

For Spark Ignition engines, the ratio will be around 10:1 to 15:1. For compression
ignition engines it'll be 18:1 to 23:1

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Sanjeet Khurana, 4th year mechanical engineering student
Answered Nov 23, 2015

This is a gure of a piston cylinder assembly one of many used in an engine. As you
can see swept volume and clearance volume.
Compression ratio is ratio of total volume of cylinder(s) to clearance volume of
cylinder(s).
r=Vt/Vc
More is clearance volume better is the eciency.
Diesel engines have better clearance volume, and hence have greater eciency.
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Abinav Sunder, MS Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (2018)

Answered Apr 22, 2015

When it comes to understanding compression ratio, you need to know about 2

volumes:
1. Swept Volume. (Vs)

2. Clearance Volume. (Vc)

Swept volume is the volume that the piston head sweeps as it moves from the
Bottom Dead Center (BDC) to the Top Dead Center (TDC) or vice-versa.
So, essentially, Swept volume is the volume of the cylinder.

When you place the cylinder head on the cylinder, you will notice that when the
piston reaches the TDC, it doesn't reach the cylinder head, but instead forms a small
space with the head. This small space between the head and the piston is called the
Clearance Volume.

Now, let's say that we have another quantity called Total Volume, Vt.

Then, Vt = Vc + Vs.

Coming to your question:

Compression ratio is simply the ratio of Total Volume to Swept Volume.

Compression Ratio = Vt/Vs

Or, r = (Vs+Vc)/Vs

Generally, petrol engines have a low compression ratio, typically 6 or 7 while diesel
engines have very high ratios close to 16 or 17.

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Ojaswa Singh, Interested in Automobile Engines
Answered Nov 25, 2016
Originally Answered: What is compression ratio in engine?
The compression ratio is the ratio of the volume of the cylinder and the combustion
chamber when the piston is at the bottom, and the volume of the combustion
chamber when the piston is at the top.

In simple word, it is the ratio of the total volume of the cylinder to the volume above
the piston when it is at its top most position.

If you want to know the detailed concept about it then you are welcome to ask.

Hope you nd this useful.

Thank you.

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Rajesh Ferrari, Mechanical engineer. Car enthusiastic. Crazy about

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Answered Oct 25, 2016

The compression ratio is the main factor for deciding the eciency of the
http://engine.it is dened as the ratio of total volume to the clearance volume .the
less the clearance volume the more will be the compression ratio because the fuel will
be compressed till the clearance volume and the gases will be burnt in the clearance
volume. So lesser the volume higher the combustion temperature will be.

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