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    Cylinder deactivation is a mechanism that shuts off fuel and air supply to inactive cylinders during light engine loads to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. It works by using an electronic control module and solenoid valves to disable inlet/exhaust valves and injectors in selected cylinders. This allows fuel efficiency gains of 8-25% by reducing pumping losses in the inactive cylinders. While it increases fuel economy and lowers emissions, disadvantages include added complexity, costs, and potential engine balancing issues. Major automakers like GM and Honda are developing cylinder deactivation technologies.

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    Cylinder deactivation is a mechanism that shuts off fuel and air supply to inactive cylinders during light engine loads to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. It works by using an electronic control module and solenoid valves to disable inlet/exhaust valves and injectors in selected cylinders. This allows fuel efficiency gains of 8-25% by reducing pumping losses in the inactive cylinders. While it increases fuel economy and lowers emissions, disadvantages include added complexity, costs, and potential engine balancing issues. Major automakers like GM and Honda are developing cylinder deactivation technologies.

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    Cylinder deactivation is a mechanism that shuts off fuel and air supply to inactive cylinders during light engine loads to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. It works by using an electronic control module and solenoid valves to disable inlet/exhaust valves and injectors in selected cylinders. This allows fuel efficiency gains of 8-25% by reducing pumping losses in the inactive cylinders. While it increases fuel economy and lowers emissions, disadvantages include added complexity, costs, and potential engine balancing issues. Major automakers like GM and Honda are developing cylinder deactivation technologies.

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    Cylinder deactivation is a mechanism that shuts off fuel and air supply to inactive cylinders during light engine loads to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. It works by using an electronic control module and solenoid valves to disable inlet/exhaust valves and injectors in selected cylinders. This allows fuel efficiency gains of 8-25% by reducing pumping losses in the inactive cylinders. While it increases fuel economy and lowers emissions, disadvantages include added complexity, costs, and potential engine balancing issues. Major automakers like GM and Honda are developing cylinder deactivation technologies.

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    Cylinder Deactivation

    Ashish Patwal

    Content
    Introduction Cylinder deactivation mechanism Methods used for cyllinder deactivation Advantages Disadvantages Key players using cylinder deactivation Future trends Conclusion Bibliography

    Introduction
    Reducing fuel consumption Cutting emission of green house gases Reduce pumping losses Cylinders are shutdown during light load 8-25% reduction in fuel consumption

    Introduction

    Cylinder deactivation mechanism


    Coolant temperature, vehicle speed, engine load parameters. Disable inlet/exhaust valves, spark plug, fuel. Disable after power stroke to have a gas spring. Lifter Oil Manifold Assembly, solenoid control valves.

    Methods used for cylinder deactivation


    Lifter Pin Control Mechanism (General Motors Variable Profile Cam shaft (Lotus Automotive System) Active Valve Train Technology

    Lifter Pin Control Mechanism


    Components: Electronic Control Module Solenoid valves Hydraulic subsytem Lifter locking pin mechanism

    Electronic Control Module


    Measuring multiple instantaneous events Control solenoid valve of the lifter pin mechanism Dynamic response for coordinating the deactivation hardware with other engine control functions. Dynamic response:solenoid plunger, hydraulic subsytem, lifter locking pin

    Solenoid Valve operation

    Solenoid valve operation


    Control cylinder deactivation Common port of the solenoid control valve connected to the locking pins inside the valve lifter Common port Engine oil pressure: deactivation Engine sump: activation

    Locking Pin Mechanism


    Lost motion: engine oil pressure is applied spring based locking pins inside the lifter Deactivation is done on the camshaft of the base circle. Transition from v8 to v4 mode in one cycle.

    Methods used in LPCM


    Cylinder bank control Individual cylinder control Control type: control algo in ecm Cylinder deactivation: engine firing order even firing order Cylinder mode: 2 cylinder deactivate at same time

    Bank mode
    Both cylinder from each bank switched same time. Two control valves required Used in v engines, Boxer engines. Switching window is half of the invidual cylinder mode.

    Advantages
    Increased fuel efficiency (10-20%)

    Decreased emissions from deactivated cylinders Better breathing capability of the engine, thereby reducing power consumed in suction stroke.

    Disadvantages
    Engine balancing. Increased cost of manufacturing Overall increase in weight

    Key Players
    GENERAL MOTORS: uses displacement on demand system which is said to save fuel by 20% HONDA: Is conducting research to incorporate cylinder deactivation with its patented VTECH engine PORSHE and SUBARU: Uses lotus designed various cam plus which works almost similar to V-tech engine Mercedes-Benz: optional on certain European market V-8s since 1998; U.S. market V-12 mileage improved by a claimed 20 percent in 2001 and 2002 model years. Technology retired (in U.S.) with 2003 arrival of turbocharged V-12 engines. INA: German bearing and valve train specialist supplies switching lifters for DCs 5.7L Hemi V-8 and GMs 3.9L V-6. Eaton Automotive: supplies a portion of the LOMAs and switching lifters for GMs 5.3L V-8. Also developing valve deactivation systems for light- and heavy-duty European diesel engines. Siemens-VDO Automotive: exploring cylinder deactivation for possible future use. Delphi Automotive: supplies a portion of the LOMAs and switching lifters for GMs 5.3L V-8. Ford Motor Company: has investigated cylinder deactivation but no applications planned for near future. Nissan and Toyota: no near-term plans to implement cylinder deactivation.

    Future Trends
    Research is under progress for a new technology named as Active Valve Train Technology, which uses valve controls with high speed hydraulic actuators there by eliminating the use of Cam shaft. Also a new technology called controlled auto ignition (CAI) which replaces the conventional spark plugs and fires at carefully timed moment to set the compressed charge of fuel alight.

    Conclusion
    The yell for a pollution free environment can be seen even now with developed countries the number of norms like EUROIII is there in the present world itself and the number of vehicles is increasing even under developed countries are planning to impose such norms Future world demands automobile which burn less fuel .Cylinder deactivation seems to be a good answer to this problem.

    Bibliography
    Automotive Industries Ltd

    www.wikipedia.com
    Research paper published by Quant Zheng , Delphi Motors Society of Automobile Engineers (SAE) Technical papers

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