Sustainable Internal Combustion Engines

Dear Colleagues,

Undoubtedly, road mobility is the engine of the economic development and is one of the fundamental aspects of the human society, because it allows everyone the freedom of movement. However, road mobility, which is a significantly growing sector worldwide, is currently one of the main sources of the greenhouse gas emissions (specifically, CO2 emissions) and city pollution. More exactly, the internal combustion engine as the most used technology for ensuring that road mobility is held accountable for the intensification of the above-presented problems. Consequently, facing ever-stricter regulations and increasing competition from the electric alternative, there is a pressure without precedent to make the internal combustion engine cleaner and more efficient, while still keeping its well-known value-for-money feature. In other words, the ongoing optimization of the internal combustion engine is still essential for the future of road mobility, which objectively speaking, cannot be suddenly shifted to fully electric vehicles.

This is why the main purpose of this Special Issue is to gather the latest scientific results on the following generic topics: (1) “how-to-burn” a fuel in order to achieve highly efficient and clean internal combustion engine suitable for the sustainable road mobility and (2) “what-to-burn” inside an engine, i.e., sustainable fuels produced from renewable energy sources.

Thus, papers are invited on (but not necessarily limited to) any of the generic topics below. Any other paper presented on a topic not explictly quoted below, but having scientific interest for this Special Issue will be taken into consideration.

Finally, as editors coming from academia, we also hope that with these papers, we will succeed in clearly and impartially telling all our students and young engineers why a research career in internal combustion engines is still worthwhile.

Prof. Rodica Niculescu
Prof. Adrian Clenci
Guest Editors

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