Plasma Ignition Technologies enable Ultra Lean Burn Combustion and new engine operational methods which:
• Dramatically reduce fuel consumption – in some instances nearly in half
• Reduce exhaust emissions – NOx and CO
• Improve power
• Improve acceleration
• Improve cold start capability without fuel enrichment
• Improve combustion pressure profiles in many applications
• Burn multiple types of fuels
• Provide detonation resistant combustion
The applications include, but are not limited to:
• Industrial low speed natural gas fueled legacy engines
• Industrial high speed natural gas fueled reciprocating engines
• Automotive engines
• Spark ignited diesel engines – thick fuel
• Gas turbines
The centerpiece technology is the Dynamic Spark Ignition which enables engines to operate more efficiently by reducing operating temperatures through robust ignition of very lean fuel mixtures.
CTS provides engine performance solutions by using skunk works* methodology to accomplish impossible tasks, in an impossible time period, at an impossible budget. CTS develops bleeding edge methods and technologies for internal combustion engine advancement while providing leading edge solutions to their customers.
* A skunk works project is a project developed by a small and loosely structured group of people who research and develop a project primarily for the sake of radical innovation.[1] The terms originated with Lockheed's World War II Skunk Works project.
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