A prechamber assembly includes a cylinder head including a coolant cavity, a prechamber body located within the cylinder head, the prechamber body including a nozzle, and an annular sleeve radially surrounding a portion of the prechamber body. The sleeve includes a plurality of coolant inlet holes. A portion of the prechamber body is radially spaced from the sleeve to form a coolant sleeve annulus extending along a length of the prechamber body above the coolant inlet holes. The coolant cavity and the coolant sleeve annulus are in fluid communication through the plurality of coolant inlet holes.

A large two-stroke turbocharged compression-ignited internal combustion crosshead engine with a plurality of cylinders has at least one pressure booster for each cylinder for boosting fuel pressure, two or more electronically controlled fuel valves for each cylinder with an inlet of the two or more electronically controlled fuel valves being connected to an outlet of the at least one pressure booster. An electronic control unit is connected to the at least one pressure booster and the two or more electronically controlled fuel valves. The electronic control unit is configured to determine a start time for a fuel injection event, activate the at least one pressure booster ahead of the determined start time and pen the two or more electronically controlled fuel valves at the determined start time.

A fuel gas feed and ignition apparatus for a gas engine (1) with a combustion chamber includes a number of injection channels (37), a main fuel gas feed line (24) for main fuel gas in which a main fuel gas valve (21) is arranged, and a number of torch channels (52) for hot combustion gas connected to a pre-combustion chamber (15), wherein an ignition fuel supply line (17) leads to the pre-combustion chamber (15) and a pre-combustion chamber valve (18) is arranged in the ignition fuel supply line (17). Control of both the time and the duration and thus also the quantity of the injection of main fuel gas, as well as of ignition fuel for the pre-combustion chamber completely independently of one another and in a precise and, above all, rapid manner is achieved in that both the main fuel gas valve (21) and the pre-combustion chamber valve (18) are embodied as an electrically-actuated, electronically-controlled valve.

An internal combustion engine, includes at least one cylinder, wherein the or each cylinder includes a main combustion chamber for burning fuel in the cylinder, wherein an assembly serving to supply and/or ignite fuel is installed on a cylinder head of each cylinder between gas exhaust valves of the cylinder in such a way that the assembly is inserted into a cut-out in the cylinder head of the cylinder and is sealed to said cut-out, wherein a segment of the assembly that is inserted into the cut-out in the cylinder head of the cylinder has an oval contour in the cross-section, and wherein a bounding surface of said segment of the assembly, which bounding surface lies in the sealing region, is contoured in such a way that said bounding surface is continuously convexly curved outward in the peripheral direction.

An internal combustion engine comprising: a main combustion chamber comprising at least one intake valve and at least one exhaust valve, wherein at least one intake port fluidically connected to an intake manifold is configured to supply an air and/or an air-fuel-mixture to the main combustion chamber via the at least one intake valve, and a pre-chamber which is in fluid connection with the main combustion chamber, wherein the pre-chamber is in fluid connection with the intake port and/or the intake manifold through a supply line, wherein at least one fuel injector is configured to enrich the air and/or air-fuel-mixture supplied to the main combustion chamber to have a lower ignition delay than an air-fuel-mixture supplied to the pre-chamber and/or air or air-fuel-mixture can be supplied to the pre-chamber to have a higher ignition delay than an air-fuel-mixture supplied to the main combustion chamber.

A method of operating an internal combustion engine comprising a cylinder and a piston, the method including injecting into the cylinder, as a liquid, a fuel which has been condensed into its liquid phase via a refrigeration process, such that the fuel vaporises into its gaseous phase during a compression stroke of the piston and before combustion such that a rise in temperature caused by the compression stroke is limited by the absorption of heat by the fuel.

A gas injector for injecting a gaseous fuel directly into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, having a valve closing element for releasing and closing a through-opening, a first seal seat between the valve closing element and a valve body, the first seal seat being a metallic seal seat having two metallic sealing partners, and having a second seal seat between the valve closing element and a stationary component, the second seal seat having at least one elastomer seal as sealing partner, the first seal seat being situated closer to the combustion chamber than is the second seal seat.

A fuel valve includes a housing, a nozzle with nozzle holes opening to a volume inside the nozzle at the front end of the housing, a gaseous fuel inlet port in the housing connected to high pressure gaseous fuel, an axially displaceable valve needle received in a longitudinal bore in the housing, and rests on a valve seat in a closed position and has lift from the valve seat in an open position, the valve seat placed between a fuel chamber and an outlet port, the fuel chamber connected to the fuel inlet port, the outlet port connected to the volume in the nozzle, an actuator system for moving the needle between the closed and open positions, an ignition liquid inlet port connected to high pressure ignition liquid, and conduit connecting the ignition liquid inlet port to the fuel chamber, the conduit including a fixed flow restriction.

A fluid system such as a fuel system includes a fluid supply and a pump coupled between the fluid supply and a plurality of fluid delivery devices. The pump can be a cryogenic pump such as for liquefied natural gas, with valve mechanisms to control hydraulic actuation of a piston used to pump the liquefied natural gas. An electrically conductive coil is coupled with the piston. Related methodology is disclosed.

An apparatus and method for igniting a gaseous fuel directly introduced into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine comprises steps of heating a space near a fuel injector nozzle; introducing a pilot amount of the gaseous fuel in the combustion chamber during a first stage injection event; controlling residency of the pilot amount in the space such that a temperature of the pilot amount increases to an auto-ignition temperature of the gaseous fuel whereby ignition occurs; introducing a main amount of the gaseous fuel during a second stage injection event after the first stage injection event; and using heat from combustion of the pilot amount to ignite the main amount.