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1. To provide better inlet air swirl in CI engine through inlet poppet valve seat surface designs, intake manifold attachments and with modified intake valve port.
2. To provide better air-fuel atomisation in CI engine.
3. To achieve HCCI and improved combustion in CI engine.
4. To enhance CI engine efficiency
5. To reduce CI engine exhaust emission.
How do we create an honest environmental impact method?
We do it by using energy as the common unit of measurement — the foundation of the CCECC approach.
In many analyses, economics dominates — costs, prices, and financial results often take center stage.
CCECC takes a different path: it uses energy as the fundamental metric for environmental impact.
A person receives information mainly visually, therefore, despite the active introduction of digital intelligent technologies, traffic lights, like road signs, is the most important means of visualizing the rules for organizing and ordering traffic flow.
The purpose of the Dalton Traffic Light is to ensure equal and indivisible safety and new conveniences for all road users;
The missing link between summer sun and winter heat.
Every temperate region on Earth lives the same paradox. Summer solar arrays produce far more electricity than anyone can use. Winter cold demands far more energy than the sun can deliver. The gap between those two seasons has haunted every energy planner for decades.
Developed and deployed a free, community-focused fleet management platform replacing paper- and spreadsheet-based tracking with a centralized digital system; enabled 40+ users to log maintenance, repairs, and costs in one dashboard.
Implemented automated maintenance tracking and data logging features,
The problem
Soil salinity threatens over 20% of irrigated land worldwide, severely reducing yields of strategic crops such as wheat, maize, and cowpea. Traditional seed treatments are either chemically intensive, not scalable, or ineffective under high salt stress. There is an urgent need for a low‑cost, eco‑friendly,
The Eco-Cycle AI Plastic Recycling Bin is a desktop-sized robotic system designed to solve the growing problem of plastic waste in schools and maker spaces. While schools embrace digital fabrication tools like 3D printers, they generate significant waste from failed prints and single-use plastic bottles. Eco-Cycle transforms this liability into a teachable,
Plastic waste and non-renewable energy production represent two of the most pressing global challenges. This project introduces P2E (Plastic-to-Electricity), a novel system that utilizes plastic-fed microbial fuel cells (P-MFCs) to simultaneously degrade plastic waste and generate carbon-neutral electrical energy.
Unlike conventional waste-to-energy technologies that rely on high-temperature thermochemical processes,
The SATOK low-speed electric generator addresses a fundamental limitation of conventional power generation: the need for high rotational speeds and complex mechanical transmissions (gearboxes, multipliers) to produce electricity efficiently. This requirement increases system complexity, cost, energy losses, and maintenance, especially in renewable and distributed energy systems.
SATOK introduces a different approach.
I have developed and released a software implementation of a true random number generator based on quantum-inspired wave function simulation running on a geometric algebra supercomputing platform.
The core principle: instead of hardware such as photon path splitting, vacuum fluctuations, or radioactive decay,
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