Techniques for controlling a forced-induction engine having a low pressure cooled exhaust gas recirculation (LPCEGR) system comprise determining a target boost device inlet pressure for each of one or more systems that could require a boost device inlet pressure change as part of their operation and boost device inlet pressure hardware limits for a set of components in the induction system, determining a final target boost device inlet pressure based on the determined sets of target boost device inlet pressures and boost device inlet pressure hardware limits, and controlling a differential pressure (dP) valve based on the final target boost device inlet pressure to balance (i) competing boost device inlet pressure targets of the one or more systems and (ii) the set of boost device inlet pressure hardware limits in order to optimize engine performance and prevent component damage.

A supercharged engine includes an engine body, an electric supercharger, a turbocharger, an EGR passage establishing communication between an exhaust passage downstream from a turbine of the turbocharger and an intake passage upstream from a compressor of the turbocharger, a fuel supply unit configured to supply fuel into a cylinder, and a controller configured to open the EGR passage and output a control signal to the electric supercharger to increase a boost pressure of the electric supercharger during acceleration of the vehicle in which an amount of the fuel supplied by the fuel supply unit is increased in response to an acceleration request signal.

The performance of an automotive gasoline fueled spark-ignited internal combustion engine (ICE) optionally operated with a dedicated exhaust gas recycle system is enhanced by reforming the fuel in the presence of injected water to increase the yield of hydrogen which permits higher compression ratios and suppresses engine knock associated with pre-ignition of the fuel. Reforming can occur (a) in the cylinder with the reaction of a fuel-rich mixture and steam from the water injected into the intake manifold of one or more dedicated exhaust gas recirculation cylinders; (b) in a catalytic reformer located upstream of the engine; (c) in a catalytic reformer located downstream of the engine that receives fuel and the exhaust gas stream from the dedicated exhaust gas recirculation cylinder(s), and returns cooled reformate to the intake manifold; and (d) in a catalytic reformer that receives fuel and the exhaust gas stream from the engine exhaust gas manifold, and delivers reformate to the intake manifold.

A mixing connector includes an intake passage, an EGR passage that fetches a portion of exhaust gas exhausted from an engine body to use as EGR gas, and that returns the EGR gas to the intake passage, and a merging section that connects the EGR passage to the intake passage so that longitudinal directions of the intake passage and the EGR passage intersect each other. An upstream side region located on an inlet port side of the intake passage from the merging section on an opposite wall surface configuring an inner surface of the intake passage and located on a side opposite to the merging section includes a first wall surface and a second wall surface which are sequentially arranged at an interval from the merging section side toward the inlet port, and a third wall surface projecting inward of the first wall surface between the first and second wall surfaces.

Proposed is a gas heat-pump system including: a compressor of an air conditioning module; a gas engine generating a drive force of the compressor; and a turbocharger primarily first-level pressure to a fuel-to-air mixture and supplying the fuel-to-air mixture to the gas engine or applying second-level pressure to the fuel-to-air mixture to which the first-level pressure is applied and supplying the fuel-to-air mixture to the gas engine.

Proposed is a gas heat-pump system including: a compressor of an air conditioning module; a gas engine generating a drive force of the compressor; and a turbocharger primarily first-level pressure to a fuel-to-air mixture and supplying the fuel-to-air mixture to the gas engine or applying second-level pressure to the fuel-to-air mixture to which the first-level pressure is applied and supplying the fuel-to-air mixture to the gas engine.

Various embodiments may include a method for controlling the residual gas mass remaining in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine after a gas exchange process and/or the purge air mass introduced into an exhaust manifold during a gas exchange process, the method comprising: specifying at least one of a desired residual gas mass or a purge air mass of the cylinder of the internal combustion engine; determining a setpoint position of an actuator which influences the specified mass, based on an inverse residual gas model; and setting the determined setpoint position of the actuator.

Various embodiments may include a method for controlling the residual gas mass remaining in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine after a gas exchange process and/or the purge air mass introduced into an exhaust manifold during a gas exchange process, the method comprising: specifying at least one of a desired residual gas mass or a purge air mass of the cylinder of the internal combustion engine; determining a setpoint position of an actuator which influences the specified mass, based on an inverse residual gas model; and setting the determined setpoint position of the actuator.

A method to control the combustion of an internal combustion engine comprising determining a combustion model providing a spark advance value depending on an objective value of a quantity representing the incidence of a low-pressure EGR circuit, of the rotation speed, of the intake efficiency and of an open-loop contribution of a combustion index; calculating a first closed-loop contribution of the spark advance depending on the combustion index; calculating a second closed-loop contribution of the spark advance depending on a quantity indicating the knocking energy; and calculating the objective value of the spark advance angle to be operated through the sum of the spark advance value provided by the combustion model and of the first closed-loop contribution or, alternatively, of the second closed-loop contribution.

An engine system may include an engine including a plurality of intake lines through which outside air supplied to combustion chamber flows, a first electric supercharger and a second electric supercharger disposed respectively in the plurality of intake lines, a first exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) device including a first EGR line branched from an exhaust manifold and joining an intake manifold and a first EGR valve disposed in the first EGR line, and a controller determining an engine target torque according to a driving condition of the engine, setting an engine torque within an operation region of the first EGR device when the engine target torque is in a torque dead band between the operation region of the first EGR device and a non-operation region thereof, and compensating a difference value between the engine target torque and the engine torque by a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) motor.