Need book or info on Miller/Atkinson Cycle engine 3

[MWPC]

Can anyone recommend a good book or other source of info on the Miller Cycle engine? As I understand, it is simular to the Atkinson Cycle (less the complex mechanism) engine but with a pump to get the specific HP back up. Thanks

 

[amorrison]

See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_cycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Cycle

 

[j2bprometheus]

MWPC:

Miller cycling was first proposed in a 1947 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) paper by Ralph Miller. The title was "Supercharging and Internal Cooling Cycle for High Output".


Concerning the Atkinson cycle: There are several photos or drawings of Mr. Atkinson's engines in a book by Lyle Cummins called "Internal Fire". There is also a brief description of how it worked.


j2bprometheus

 

[thedozzman]

There is a lot of information floating around about the Mazda 929 2.3-liter Miller Cycle V6. You should look it up.

Heres some sites:

http://www.autozine.org/technical_school/engine/petrol2.htm

http://www.mazda.com.au/articleZone.asp?articleZoneID=92

http://millercycle.quickseek.com/

http://experts.about.com/e/a/at/Atkinson_cycle.htm

http://www.electrifyingtimes.com/priustechspecs.html

(not all that helpful, but useful)

Hope it all helps.

 

[MWPC]

All,

Thanks for the help. The Prius article had some hard valve timing and compression ratio data!

Ken