Ferrari has signaled a willingness to challenge one of the most fundamental assumptions in engine design by filing a European ...

Decking—Removing material from the piston top to (1) provide the proper clearance between the piston deck and cylinder head, (2) equalize the distance from the center of the pinhole to the piston deck ...

For as long as internal combustion engines have existed, pistons have been round. This wasn't necessarily because circular ...

Industrial waste heat is a hidden resource because, despite being produced in vast amounts, it is rarely put to good use. This could change, thanks to a new machine type created by Empa Scientists and ...

Good ideas sometimes take surprising turns. For years, experts at Empa had been working on an innovative valve control system for combustion engines with electro-hydraulically actuated valves, which ...