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M. R. Zoolfakar and M. A. M. Din
With current development of engines, the ways of reducing emission are using the
motor or hybrid engine.
A solenoid engine is similar to conventional internal combustion engine except,
it operates sorely on electrical power and no combustion process takes place while
the internal combustion engine operates on fossil fuel. The operation of the solenoid
engine and reciprocating engine is the same but the engine block was replaced with
solenoid while all other parts of the engine were kept the same.
16.2 Experimental Setup
The operation of the new engine should be similar to the convectional internal
combustion engine. To perform the test, the setup is separated into three part, i.e.,
designing, fabricating, and testing the engine’s prototype.
16.2.1 Engine Design
The type of engine design used is the V-type engine arrangement which can be seen
in Fig. 16.1. This construction has few advantage in terms of the solenoid engine
which is the length required to house an inline 6-cylinder inline engine will house a
V12 cylinder engine. This allows for a greater displacement compared to the inline
cylinder which means that more power and more torque can be produced at a lower
engine speed as the power stroke is coming from two sides of the crankshaft.
Fig. 16.1 Designed solenoid engine’s prototype