Abstract

We were able to assess a car engine's performance as it operated under various loads to imitate
working situations in the following experiment. We were able to obtain the power output and
hence determine the overall efficiency of the Otto engine for each experiment using an electrical
generator. In addition, the specific fuel consumption, which was computed for each trial, is an
important variable in combustion engines.

Introduction and theory

Gasoline engine
A gasoline engine is a sort of heat engine that runs on gasoline, specifically a combustion engine.
These engines are the most frequent means of propelling automobiles. While gasoline can be
used to power turbines, a gasoline engine refers to piston-driven gasoline engines. The fact that
the globe extracts so much oil from the ground to convert into petroleum products like gasoline
is mostly due to gasoline engines. Transportation accounts for around 18 percent of our major
energy use globally, with gasoline accounting for little less than half of that. This indicates that
gasoline engines consume about 8% of the world's total primary energy.
Engine types
Gasoline engines are classified into numerous categories based on their application, fuel
management mechanism, ignition, piston-and-cylinder or rotor configuration, strokes per cycle,
cooling system, and valve type and placement, among other factors. They are discussed in this
section in terms of two different engine types: piston-and-cylinder engines and rotary engines.
The pressure created by gasoline combustion exerts a force on the head of a piston, which moves
the length of the cylinder in a reciprocating, or back-and-forth, motion in a piston-and-cylinder
engine. This force causes the piston to move away from the cylinder's head and perform work.
The Wankel engine, often known as the rotary engine, lacks traditional cylinders with
reciprocating pistons. Instead, the gas pressure acts on the rotor's surfaces, forcing it to turn and
produce work.