**Meet the editor**

Dr. Hoon Kiat Ng is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. He is also the head of the Energy and Fuel research division and academic champion of the aerospace research priority group. He received his BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University

of Sheffield, UK and PhD in Engineering from the University of Nottingham, UK. Dr. Ng works in a wide range of interdisciplinary experimental and computational projects, including CFD-chemical kinetics modelling of diesel/biodiesel combustion, biofuels production and combustion, engine testing, parallel processing and neural network analysis of engine performance, as well soil remediation using extraction and advanced oxidation processes (AOP). He has well over 80 publications to date in internationally refereed journals, conference proceedings, book chapters and books. He also serves on the editorial board of seven international journals, and has been appointed to various advisory panels and expert committees. He has led a number of projects which are funded from a variety of sources including government organisations, industry and university. He is currently a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK and a member of several professional bodies including the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International. Dr Ng was recently the winner of the inaugural 2012 Chancellor's Award.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Fabrizio Bonatesta

**Dual-Injection System 53**

**Direct Injection System 85**

**(HCCI) Engines 119**

**Section 1 Advances in Internal Combustion Engines 1**

**Influence of Operating Variables 3**

Bronisław Sendyka and Marcin Noga

Bronisław Sendyka and Mariusz Cygnar

Chapter 5 **Advances in The Design of Two-Stroke, High Speed, Compression Ignition Engines 149**

**Section 2 Advanced Fuel Solutions for Combustion Systems 183**

Chapter 6 **Sclerocarya Birrea Biodiesel as an Alternative Fuel for Compression Ignition Engines 185** Jerekias Gandure and Clever Ketlogetswe

Chapter 7 **Biodiesel for Gas Turbine Application — An Atomization**

Ee Sann Tan, Muhammad Anwar, R. Adnan and M.A. Idris

Chapter 4 **Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition**

Alexandros G. Charalambides

**Characteristics Study 213**

Chapter 1 **Premixed Combustion in Spark Ignition Engines and the**

Chapter 2 **Combustion Process in the Spark-Ignition Engine with**

Chapter 3 **Stratified Charge Combustion in a Spark-Ignition Engine With**

Enrico Mattarelli, Giuseppe Cantore and Carlo Alberto Rinaldini
