Combustion System Development
A robust combustion system is an absolute key requirement to achieve increasingly stringent emissions and fuel economy targets worldwide. MAHLE Jet Ignition® is an advanced pre-chamber combustion system which can provide benefits in both fuel economy and performance.
Our Value Add
- Significant analysis and simulation at early design stage
- Base combustion chamber layout design
- Injector targeting studies
- Moving geometry CFD for port, piston and injector optimisation
- Steady state port flow measurements
- Optimization of combustion chamber parameters
- Single and multi-cylinder optimisation
Our Tools, Facilities and Services
- System development considering all aspects of production components
- CFD code (Star-CCM)
- Steady state cylinder head flow rig
- Injector flow rig
- Single cylinder research engines (thermodynamic and optical)
- Novel approaches to Lean Burn
Customer Benefits
- Extensive experience of combustion system design for high Brake Mean Effective Pressure (BMEP) operation
- Unique combination of engineering services with engine component expertise

High speed single cylinder research engine (showing balancer gears)