IC ENGINE MAJOR PARTS AND ITS FUNCTIONS
IC engine Major Parts and Its Function, Materials,Images,Manufacturing Method.
An internal combustion engine is the engine in which combustion (burning of fuel) takes place inside the cylinder of engine. By burning of the fuel high temperature and pressure force generates. This pressure force use to move the vehicle or rotate wheels by use of some mechanism.
In an engine many parts work together and achieve the goal of converting chemical energy of fuel into mechanical energy. These parts are bolted together and the combination of all these parts is known as engine. Today I am going to tell you about these parts and how they work so you can know the basic of automobile engine.
Parts Of IC engine
1. Cylinder Block:-
It is a container fitted with piston, where the fuel is burnt and power is produced.
Cylinder is the main body of IC engine. Cylinder is a part in which the intake of fuel, compression of fuel and burning of fuel take place. The main function of cylinder is to guide the piston.
For cooling of cylinder a water jacket (for liquid cooling used in most of cars) or fin (for air cooling used in most of bikes) are situated at the outer side of cylinder.
At the upper end of cylinder, cylinder head and at the bottom end crank case is bolted.
Material : Ductile (Nodular) Cast Iron ,30C8 (Low Carbon Steel)
Manufacturing method : Casting, Forging and after that heat transfer , Machining
Cylinder Block
2.Cylinder Head/Cylinder Cover:-
One end of the cylinder is closed by means of cylinder head. This consists of inlet valve for admitting air fuel mixture and exhaust valve for removing the products of combustion.
The inlet valve, exhaust valve, spark plug, injector etc. are bolted on the cylinder head. The main function of cylinder head is to seal the cylinder block and not to permit entry and exit of gases on cover head valve engine.
Material: Aluminium alloys
Manufacturing Method: Casting
Cylinder Cover
3. Piston:-
Piston is used to reciprocate inside the cylinder.
It transmits the energy to crankshaft through connecting rod.
Material : Aluminum Alloy 4652 because of its Low Specific Gravity.
Manufactuirng Method: Casting
Piston
4. Piston Rings:-
These are used to maintain a pressure tight seal between the piston and cylinder walls and also it transfer the heat from the piston head to cylinder walls.
These rings are fitted in grooves which have been cut in the piston. They are split at one end so they can expand or slipped over the end of piston.
Material: cast iron of fine grain and high elastic material
Manufacturing Method: Pot casting method
Piston rings
5. Connecting Rod:-
One end of the connecting rod is connected to piston through piston pin while the other is connected to crank through crank pin.
It transmits the reciprocatory motion of piston to rotary crank.
There are two end of connecting rod one is known as big end and other as small end. Big end is connected to the crankshaft and the small end is connected to the piston by use of piston pin.
Material: Low Carbon steel 30C8
Manufacturing Methods : Forging and after that heat heat treatment.
Connecting Rod
6. Crank:-
It is a lever between connecting rod and crank shaft.
7. Crank Shaft:-
The function of crank shaft is to transform reciprocating motion in to a rotary motion.
The crankshaft of an internal combustion engine receives the efforts or thrust supplied by piston to the connecting rod and converts the reciprocating motion of piston into rotary motion of crankshaft.
The crankshaft mounts in bearing so it can rotate freely.
The shape and size of crankshaft depends on the number and arrangement of cylinders.
Material: 37C15 Alloy Steel.
Manufacturing Method: Casting
Crank Shaft
8. Fly wheel:-
Fly wheel is a rotating mass used as an energy storing device.
A flywheel is secured on the crankshaft. The main function of flywheel is to rotate the shaft during preparatory stroke. It also makes crankshaft rotation more uniform.
Material : castManufacturing Method : Casting
Flywheel
9. Crank Case:-
It supports and covers the cylinder and the crank shaft. It is used to store the lubricating oil.
The main body of the engine to which the cylinder are attached and which contains the crankshaft and crankshaft bearing is called crankcase. It serves as the lubricating system too and sometime it is called oil sump. All the oil for lubrication is placed in it.
Crankcase
10.Poppet Valves
A valve is a device that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways.
The intake and exhaust valves open at the proper time to let in air and fuel and to let out exhaust.
Note that both valves are closed during compression and combustion so that the combustion chamber is sealed.
Materials: Phosphorus Bronze and Monel metal.
POPPET valve
11. Spark Plug:
The main function of a sparkplug is to conduct the high potential from the ignition system into the combustion chamber.
It provides the proper gap across which spark is produced by applying high voltage , to ignite the mixture in the ignition chamber.
Manufacturing Method: Each major element of the spark plug—the center electrode, the side electrode, the insulator, and the shell—is manufactured in a continuous in-line assembly process. Then, the side electrode is attached to the shell and the center electrode is fitted inside the insulator. Finally, the major parts are assembled into a single unit.
Spark Plug
12. Engine Bearing:
The crankshaft is supported by bearing .
Everywhere there is rotary action in the engine , bearings are used to support the moving parts.
Its purpose is reduce the friction and allow parts to move freely.
13. Governor:
A device for regulating automatically output of a machine by regulating the supply of working fluid.
When the speed decreases due to increase in load the supply valve is opened by mechanism operated by governor and the engine therefore speeds up again to its original speed.
Thus the function of a governor is to control the fluctuations of engine speed due to changes of load.
See: Introduction To Governors | Classification / Types Of Governors
Governor:
14. Carburetor :
The function of a carburetor is to atomize and meter the liquid fuel and mix it with the air as it enters the induction system of the engine .
Maintaining fuel-air proportion under all conditions of operation appropriate to the conditions.
15. Fuel Atomizer or Injector
Fuel injection is a system for mixing fuel with air in an internal combustion engine. It has become the primary fuel delivery system used in automotive petrol engines, having almost completely replaced carburettors in the late 1980s.
The primary difference between carburettors and fuel injection is that fuel injection atomizes the fuel by forcibly pumping it through a small nozzle under high pressure, while a carburettor relies on low pressure created by intake air rushing through it to add the fuel to the airstream.
The fuel injector is only a nozzle and a valve: the power to inject the fuel comes from a pump or a pressure container farther back in the fuel supply.
16. Manifold
The main function of manifold is to supply the air fuel mixture and collects the exhaust gases equally form all cylinder. In an internal combustion engine two manifold are used, one for intake and other for exhaust.
Material : Aluminium alloy -Alloy 4600
Manifold
17. Gudgeon pin or piston pin
These are hardened steel parallel spindles fitted through the piston bosses and the small end bushes or eyes to allow the connecting rods to swivel. It connects the piston to connecting rod. It is made hollow for lightness.
Material: Plain Carbon steel 10C4
18. Pushrod
Pushrod is used when the camshaft is situated at the bottom end of cylinder. It carries the camshaft motion to the valves which are situated at the cylinder head.