LEMONT - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have joined forces with Caterpillar Inc. to develop a potential new piston design for heavy-duty diesel engines.

Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the diesel engine business today is “re-orienting” design efforts away from a focus on exhaust emissions to fuel economy, performance, and component integration – ...

Sandia National Laboratories researchers (left to right: Nathan Harry, Christopher Nilsen, Drummond Biles, and Charles Mueller) show off their prototype of ducted fuel injection module for diesel ...

Rocket engines and the internal-combustion cycle get a remake, thanks to engineering ingenuity. When it comes to engines, smaller and more powerful are always better. Throw in less expensive and ...

In many ways, automotive engine design is converging, as the computer-engineered race toward improved efficiency produces increasingly similar results in Detroit, Tokyo, and Stuttgart. Computer models ...

A team of engineers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney has figured out a way to run a diesel engine on a mix of diesel and hydrogen, dramatically lowering its emissions. Why do we ...