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Need book or info on Miller/Atkinson Cycle engine
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Need book or info on Miller/Atkinson Cycle engine

Need book or info on Miller/Atkinson Cycle engine

(OP)
Can anyone recommend a good book or other source of info on the Miller Cycle engine?  As I understand, it is simular to the Atkinson Cycle (less the complex mechanism) engine but with a pump to get the specific HP back up.  Thanks

RE: Need book or info on Miller/Atkinson Cycle engine

MWPC:

     Miller cycling was first proposed in a 1947   Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)  paper by  Ralph Miller.    The title was  "Supercharging and Internal Cooling Cycle for High Output".
  

      Concerning the Atkinson cycle:  There are several photos or drawings of Mr. Atkinson's engines in a book by Lyle Cummins called "Internal Fire".   There is also a brief description of how it worked.


j2bprometheus

RE: Need book or info on Miller/Atkinson Cycle engine

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There is a lot of information floating around about the Mazda 929 2.3-liter Miller Cycle V6. You should look it up.

Heres some sites:

http://www.autozine.org/technical_school/engine/petrol2.htm
http://www.mazda.com.au/articleZone.asp?articleZoneID=92
http://millercycle.quickseek.com/
http://experts.about.com/e/a/at/Atkinson_cycle.htm
http://www.electrifyingtimes.com/priustechspecs.html (not all that helpful, but useful)

Hope it all helps.

RE: Need book or info on Miller/Atkinson Cycle engine

(OP)
All,

Thanks for the help.  The Prius article had some hard valve timing and compression ratio data!

Ken

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