Ceramic Engine

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Ceramic Engine

• Material Science
• 3344
• Dr. Peel
• By
• Jaime Niño Jr.

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Ceramic components of Engine

• Diesel fuel injectors
• Turbo charge rotors
• PSS glow plugs
• Rocker arm tips
• Valves
• Swirl Chambers

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Advantages Of The Ceramic Engine

• Temperature
• A ceramic cylinder will operate at the highest
  temperature combustion of 3000K.
• Efficient
• The low friction ceramic doesnt need to cool the
  engine walls. This also means that no part of the
  energy available from the fuel is wasted to heat
  the atmosphere.

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Examples of Ceramic Materials

• Silicon nitride
• used in engines and as a semiconductor in
  transistors
• Boron carbide
• used in some helicopter and tank armor.
• Ferrite
• used in the core of electrical transformers.
• Uranium oxide
• used as fuel in nuclear reactors.

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Other Applications Of Ceramics

• Drilling
• Tips
• Drill bit
• Chip Control
• Molded Chipbreakers
• Ground

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References

• http//www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/c/ce
  /ceramics.htm
• http//www.engr.sjsu.edu/WofMatE/ceramics.htm
• http//global.kyocera.com/prdct/tool/ceratip/index
  .html
• http//global.kyocera.com/application/automotive/a
  uto_engine/turbo.html
• http//www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1614/cerami
  c.htmlHistory
• http//www.calmis.ca.gov/file/occguide/ENGCERAM.HT
  M

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