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Podcast: Engine Up and Running
Today the Scuderi Group reached another significant milestone with the announcement of the Scuderi Engine's first successful firing that occurred recently in the independent laboratory building and testing the engine. For the complete press release, click here.
Scuderi Group President Sal Scuderi recently sat down to talk more in depth about the engine's first firing. Listen to this audio podcast to hear what Sal had to say:
Engine Expo Day Two: Continuous Flow
Activity picked up today right where it left off the day before with a steady stream of visitors to the Scuderi Engine booth, which included the added exposure and crowds attending the International Engine of the Year Awards taking place right next to the Scuderi booth.
Engine Expo Day One: Hello Europe!
The Scuderi Engine made its European debut today at the annual Engine Expo being held for the second year at the new Stuttgart Messe. Even with the backdrop of an automotive industry in unprecedented change, the halls were still filled with new technologies and engineers under more pressure to innovate.
After exhibiting at the last three events, the Scuderi Group arrived this year with the cutaway mode of the prototype and legions of European OEMs and media eager to see what many around the automotive engineering community have been talking about.
The CO2 challenge and the Scuderi solution - Meeting future standards today
In an effort to cut down vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, President Barack Obama is proposing today new rules that would create a single CO2 emission standard for automobiles four years sooner than anticipated.
Current standards mandate a 27.5 mpg level for cars and 23.1 mpg for trucks. The proposed regulations announced today would require cars and light trucks to reach an average of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 and then increase to 39 mpg for cars and 30 mpg for trucks. The administration predicts these changes will save 1.8 billion barrels of oil by 2016 (roughly an estimated 86 days worth of oil used in the U.S.).
Up until now, automakers have been fighting separate state and federal regulations in court, saying that it creates inconsistency in fuel economy standards. These new rules would create one national standard, modeled after emissions standards set by the State of California and its California Air Resource Board. Today, the major automakers are expected to endorse the new federal plan.
A few years ago, standards such as these were argued to be out of reach and too costly for the auto industry - and its customers. Further, it would require a massive downsizing in vehicles, which would compromise the engine's power and torque. Today, the automakers fortunately have new technologies and innovations to consider to help meet these newer, tougher standards.
The Scuderi Engine is one such alternative, and one some say is the best solution given the minimal requirements needed to be adapted into today's current engine assembly process. With its split-cycle arrangement and its revolutionary "firing after top dead center," the Scuderi Engine burns fuels cleaner and more efficiently resulting in less CO2 and up to 80 percent less nitrogen oxide emissions than any vehicle on the road today.
Further, efficiency levels of the naturally aspirated Scuderi Engine are expected to be 5-10 percent higher than conventional engines. The turbocharged Scuderi Engine is expected to be a 15-20 percent gain in efficiency over today's vehicles. The Scuderi Air-Hybrid Engine is expected to reach significant gains in efficiency, 25-50 percent more than conventional engines in use today. And while all these gains in efficiency are reached, the Scuderi Engine maintains its very high torque levels.
The Scuderi Engine Arrives Home
The Scuderi Engine arrived home today to a warm welcome from a contingent of local elected officials and press.
Scuderi Engine on Fox Business
Scuderi Group Vice President and Legal Counsel Stephen Scuderi explains how the Scuderi Engine operates on the Fox Business "Strategy Room" on Friday, May 1, 2009:
Built from the Patent Portfolio, up…
Learning how to create a business model as efficient and clean burning as the revolutionary engine you're developing is not something easily found in a text book. So students from the Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany, recently invited the Scuderi Group to enlighten them on how one goes about building a business that is truly like no other.
SAE Day Three: The Beat Goes On.
Attendees of the Society of Automotive Engineers’ World Congress 09 continued to stream through the Scuderi booth to get a glimpse of the first prototype of the Scuderi Engine. Meanwhile, the Scuderi engineering team was meeting with local OEMs in the Detroit area to give technological updates on the engine’s development.
As more updates are given to the OEMs, they continue to be impressed by the engine’s capabilities in achieving greater fuel efficiency and emissions controls than any of the conventional engines on the road today. Some of the features getting high marks from the engineering community are the engine’s unique valve design, valve lift and landing control, and the unique lash device.
The Scuderi Engines valve train design utilizes pneumatic, full-variable valves to control engine load, enabling higher efficiency at part-load performance. The patented valve and seat designs allow for extremely high-speed valve openings and smooth closings to accommodate the high-speed crossover valves. The lash device provides automatic adjustment to prevent wear and damage to the outwardly-opening crossover valves. Furthermore, the Scuderi Engine utilizes internally generated air pressure to run the intake and exhaust valves, and the pneumatic springs for the high-speed crossover valves.
SAE Detroit: Day Two
The buzz and excitement around the engine unveiling on Day One continued right through the second day here in Detroit as the Scuderi Group and its proof-of-concept prototype maintained a very high level of interest from attendees and the media. The day started with a major story on the engine in the Wall St. Journal and discussions continue at the exhibit between enthusiastic OEMs and Scuderi experts.
Visitors to the exhibit were impressed with the prototype's ability to fire after top dead center, which enables the engine to emit up to 80 percent less NOx and reach efficiency levels that are 5-10 percent more efficient than conventional engines on the road today.
Scuderi Split-Cycle Engine Technology Gives Automakers New Internal Combustion Process
To hundreds of spectators at the annual SAE conference in Detroit, the Scuderi Group unveiled its first proof-of-concept prototype of the Scuderi Split-Cycle Engine, marking another milestone in developing a more fuel efficient, powerful and green technology for internal combustion engines.