Engine Working: How Four Stroke Cycle Engine Works?

Knowing about the engine working is fun, especially for non-engineering people. You might have an automobile in your home. It may be a car, moped, motorbike, or anything else.

Have you ever thought about how an engine works? You may have a diesel engine or petrol engine that doesn’t matter. Will you know anything about the engine working?

If not, here is the right place to gain some information.

If you don’t have a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering still you can easily understand the working of a four-stroke cycle engine. You just have to read the full article.

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So, what is the difference between a 2-stroke and a 4-stroke engine working?

To explain to you in a very simple manner,

When only two strokes are required for completing the reciprocating engine cycle then that engine is known as a two-stroke engine.

And when four strokes are required for completing the cycle then it is known as a four-stroke engine.

Actually, two strokes or four strokes are the cycles of any reciprocating engine. This applies to all internal combustion engines and also steam engines.

In the four-stroke engine, the work is obtained only during one stroke out of these strokes for a single-cylinder engine or for every cylinder individually for the multi-cylinder engine.

Here in this article, I will like to share detailed information on the four-stroke petrol engine works.

So, The Four Important Engine Working Strokes are,

  • Suction Stroke

This is the first stroke of your engine. During this stroke, the piston is moved downward from Top Dead Center by means of the crankshaft which is rotated by an electric motor.

This movement increases the size of the combustion space thereby reducing the pressure inside the cylinder, as the result, the higher pressure of the outside atmosphere forces the air into combustion space through the suction valve. The exhaust valve remains closed during this engine working stroke.

carburetor is put in the passage of incoming air which supplies a controlled quantity of fuel to this air. This air-fuel mixture thus comes in the engine cylinder.

  • Compression Stroke

This is the second stroke of your engine. The air-fuel mixture is compressed during this upward stroke. The compression forces the fuel into a closer combination with air.

Heat is produced due to compression aids the combustion of fuel. Just a little before the end of the compression stroke the mixture is ignited by a spark produced by a spark plug.

During this engine working stroke, suction and exhaust valve remain closed.

  • Power Stroke

This is the third stroke of your engine. You may call it an Expansion Stroke also. The air-fuel mixture which burns at the end of the compression stroke expands due to the heat of combustion.

This expansion of burnt air-fuel mixture exerts pressure in the cylinder and on the piston, and under this impulse, the piston moves downward thus doing useful work.

The suction and exhaust valve remain closed during this engine working stroke.

  • Exhaust Stroke

This is the last stroke of your engine. During this stroke, the suction valve remains closed while the exhaust valve opens. The greater part of burnt gases escapes because of their own expansion.

The upward movement of the piston pushes the remaining gases out of the open exhaust valve. Thus complete the exhaust stroke and one working cycle of the engine.

The number of cycles are depending on the rotation per minute of your engine. Higher the R.P.M., the higher the work carried out by the engine.

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