![](/assets/images/picto-drapeau-france-3a76576a5d60a512053b4612ab58dae5.png)
1. Performance trends and overall characteristics of internal combustion engines
While engines using high-temperature combustion have been studied and developed since antiquity and since the 17th century, the industrial era has had economic objectives as its priority. Since S. Carnot's treatise on the motive power of fire, the scientific and technological focus has been on the efficiency, in the economic sense of the term, of driving machines. But with the advent of mass production and the unreasonable abundance of energy provided by oil, the development of engines has been driven almost exclusively by the imperatives of production cost. While virtually all the inventions that today make a modern engine "energy-efficient" were available on principle as early as the 1930s, it wasn't until the first oil shocks of the 1970s that an engine's fuel consumption became an audible selling point. In the meantime, the automotive and aeronautical industries relied on engines that...
Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!
You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!
Already subscribed? Log in!
![](/assets/images/logo-eti-286623ed91fa802ce039246e516e5852.png)
The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference
This article is included in
Vehicules and mobility
This offer includes:
Knowledge Base
Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees
Services
A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources
Practical Path
Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills
Doc & Quiz
Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading
Performance trends and overall characteristics of internal combustion engines
Bibliography
Bibliography
Standards and norms
- Environmental management – Lifecycle analysis – Principles and framework - ISO 14040 - 2006
- Environmental management – Lifecycle analysis – Requirements and guidelines - ISO 14044 - 2006
Regulations
CO 2 emissions: Regulation (EU) 2019/631 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 17, 2019.
Vehicle emissions: Regulation (EU) 2018/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of May 30, 2018.
Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!
You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!
Already subscribed? Log in!
![](/assets/images/logo-eti-286623ed91fa802ce039246e516e5852.png)
The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference