Homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI)

Ariel Basco Mendoza

Ingeniería Mecatrónica, Universidad Católica Boliviana

Combustion is a chemical process in which a substance reacts rapidly with oxygen and
gives off heat. The original substance is called fuel, and the source of oxygen is called oxidizer.
HCCI refers to a way of internal combustion in which fuel and air are compressed inside the
combustion chamber with the intention of getting to the point of auto-ignition. As Charalambides
(2013) describes “In the last decades, extensive testing had been conducted on HCCI combustion
in a race to develop a user-attractive HCCI engine-driven passenger car. Various ways have been
employed ranging from trying different fuel combinations to supercharging the engine” even
though HCCI is not something new, the development of stable HCCI engines is still in process.
There are some great works about HCCI engine control as we can cite from Vaughan
(2013) doctoral thesis:
Fuel efficient Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) engine combustion timing
predictions must contend with non-linear chemistry, non-linear physics, period doubling
bifurcation(s), turbulent mixing, model parameters that can drift day-to-day, and air-fuel mixture
state information that cannot typically be resolved on a cycle-to-cycle basis, especially during
transients. In previous work, an abstract cycle-to-cycle mapping function coupled with 𝜖-Support
Vector Regression was shown to predict experimentally observed cycle-to-cycle combustion
timing over a wide range of engine conditions, despite some of the aforementioned difficulties.
The main limitation of the previous approach was that a partially acausual randomly sampled
training dataset was used to train proof of concept offline predictions. The objective of this paper
is to address this limitation by proposing a new online adaptive Extreme Learning Machine (ELM)
extension named Weighted Ring-ELM.
Showing that there are methods being developed facing the main problem about HCCI
engines, how can HCCI combustion be controlled in the most effective way.

References.-
Vaughan, A. (2013)An Extreme Learning Machine Approach to Predicting Near Chaotic HCCI
Combustion Phasing in Real-Time, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan,
Recuperado de: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3567
Charalambides, A (2013). Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) Engines,
Advances in Internal Combustion Engines and Fuel Technologies, Dr. Hoon Kiat Ng (Ed.),
InTech, DOI: 10.5772/55807. Recuperado de: https://www.intechopen.com/books/advances-in-
internal-combustion-engines-and-fuel-technologies/homogenous-charge-compression-ignition-
hcci-engines