6 Dec 2008, 20:08 (Ref:2349144)
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Originally Posted by Dave Brand
An IC engine works by burning fuel. To burn fuel you need oxygen; in simple terms, the more oxygen you can get into the combustion chamber, the more fuel you can burn; not a lot of point, then, in using exhaust gases, most of the oxygen in which has already been used!
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Which, oddly, you might want to do. For emission reasons. In an EGR engine you are trying to reduce the amount of oxygen to cut down on NO x production.
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