Gasoline Compression Ignition Technology

Technology Enablers for Advanced GCI engines.- Research Direction for GCI Engine Development.- Fuel Effect on the Development of Gasoline Compression Ignition Mode in a Light Duty Engine at Low Load.- A study to improve engine efficiency and emission characteristics in GCI engines: The Effect of Exhaust Residual Gas, Ignition Control Strategy, Gasoline Biodiesel Ratio and Intake Port Modification Investigation.- Gasoline Compression Ignition Engines: Ignition, Combustion Rate Control, Spray-Wall Impingement, and CO/UHC Formation.- Opposed Piston Gasoline Compression Ignition.- Development of Spark Assisted Gasoline Compression Ignition (SA-GCI) Engine Strategies.

Dr. Gautam Kalghatgi worked for 31 years at Shell Research, U.K., followed by 8 years in Saudi Aramco before retiring in June 2018. He has been a Visiting Professor at Oxford University, Imperial College, London, KTH Stockholm, TU Eindhoven and Sheffield University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, SAE, I.Mech.E. and Combustion Institute and an Honorary Fellow of the International Society for Energy Environment and Sustainability (ISEES). He is on the International Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute and on the editorial boards of several journals. He has published around 140 papers and a book on combustion, fuels and engine research and on transport energy.  He has received several awards for his work including the 2021 ASME Internal Combustion Engines award, Huw Edwards award of the Institute of Physics, SAE Horning Award, and the Sugden award of the Combustion Institute. He has a B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay (1972) and Ph.D. from Bristol University (1975) in Aeronautical Engineering.  
Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal joined IIT Kanpur in 2001. He worked at the Engine Research Center, UW@Madison, the USA as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1999 - 2001). His interests are IC engines, combustion, alternate and conventional fuels, lubricating oil tribology, optical diagnostics, laser ignition, HCCI, emissions, and particulate control, 1D and 3D Simulations of engine processes, and large-bore engines. Prof. Agarwal has published 435+ peer-reviewed international journal and conference papers, 70 edited books, 92 books chapters, and 12200+ Scopus and 19000+ Google Scholar citations. He is the associate principal editor of FUEL. He has edited "Handbook of Combustion" (5 Volumes; 3168 pages), published by Wiley VCH, Germany. Prof. Agarwal is a Fellow of SAE (2012), Fellow of ASME (2013), Fellow of ISEES (2015), Fellow of INAE (2015), Fellow of NASI (2018), Fellow of RoyalSociety of