代理汽油在均质压燃内燃机中燃烧特性的模拟研究

在均质压燃（HCCI）内燃机中,燃烧主要由化学动力学控制。研究燃料的化学动力学反应机理对了解和控制HCCI具有重要意义。本文利用CHEMKIN多区模型,研究了由正庚烷、异辛烷和甲苯混合而成的代理汽油的燃烧特性。计算结果显示,多区模型弥补了单区模型中出现的温度压强陡升缺点,能更好地反映缸内真实燃烧过程。多区温度分布区间越广,则燃烧提前,燃烧持续期长。各区NOx排放和温度分布趋势类似。HC和CO排放主要集中在燃烧不完全的第1区。     

Heat transfer in HCCI multi-zone modeling: Validation of a new wall heat flux correlation under motoring conditions

The present study focuses on the development and a preliminary validation of a heat transfer model for the estimation of wall heat flux in HCCI engines via multi-zone modeling. The multi-zone model describes heat flow between zones and to the combustion chamber wall. Mass, species and enthalpy transfer, which affect the temperature field within the combustion chamber, are also considered between zones, accounting for the convective heat transfer terms. The multi-zone heat transfer model presented herein has been developed for HCCI combustion simulation and although it has been used in the past, its validation was based on cylinder pressure data under firing conditions. In the present study a more accurate validation of the model is conducted. This is achieved by comparing the multi-zone model heat loss rate predictions to the corresponding predictions of a validated CFD code. The cases examined correspond to actual motoring cases, against which the CFD code has been validated in a previous work. Moreover, a sensitivity analysis is presented, to assess the effect of the zone configuration, i.e. zone thickness and number, on the predicted heat loss rate and temperature profiles. In addition, a comparison is made between the results obtained from the proposed heat flux correlation and one in which the temperature gradient at the wall is approximated via finite differences.     

缸内直喷汽油机SI/HCCI模式切换的实现与控制

利用错位双凸轮机构,在一个循环内同时切换进排气凸轮,并配合节气门和喷油策略的变化,实现了SI/HCCI燃烧模式的切换。利用耦合详细化学反应动力学机理的HCCI发动机多循环模拟模型模拟计算,优化了切换过程的喷油策略和节气门变化,将模拟优化结果应用在发动机试验中,达到了SI/HCCI快速平滑的切换效果。     

均质压燃发动机燃烧与排放的多区模型模拟

应用一个有质量交换的6区模型模拟正庚烷在HCCI发动机中的燃烧和排放特性．通过把缸内划分为缝隙区、边界层区、外核心区和内核心区,加入Woschni传热模型计入了缸内的温度和浓度的不均匀分布．全部计算基于正庚烷燃烧的包含57种组分290个反应的详细机理,结果表明,该多区模型合理地模拟了HCCI发动机的燃烧过程,并可满意地预测出HC、CO和NO的排放．最后采用此多区模型分别讨论了缝隙容积、边界层厚度和壁面温度对HCCI发动机的燃烧和排放的影响．     

Study of low emission homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine using combined internal and external exhaust gas recirculation (EGR)

This paper focuses on the effects of internal and cooled external exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) on the combustion and emission performance of diesel fuel homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI). The use of fuel injection before the top center (TC) of an exhaust stroke and the negative valve overlap (NVO) to form the homogeneous mixture achieves low NO_x and smoke emissions HCCI. Internal and external EGR are combined to control the combustion. Internal exhaust gas recirculation (IEGR) benefits to form a homogeneous mixture and reduces smoke emission further, but lower the high load limits of HCCI. Cooled external EGR can delay the start of combustion (SOC) effectively, which is very useful for high cetane fuel (diesel) HCCI because these fuels can easily self-ignited, making the SOC earlier. External EGR can avoid the knock combustion of HCCI at high load, which means it can expand the high load limit. HCCI maintains low smoke emission at various EGR rates and various loads compared with a conventional diesel engine because there are no fuel-rich volumes in the cylinder.     

Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) combustion: Implementation and effects on pollutants in direct injection diesel engines

Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) combustion is a combustion concept which offers simultaneous reductions in both NO_x and soot emissions from internal combustion engines. In light of increasingly stringent diesel emissions limits, research efforts have been invested into HCCI combustion as an alternative to conventional diesel combustion. This paper reviews the implementation of HCCI combustion in direct injection diesel engines using early, multiple and late injection strategies. Governing factors in HCCI operations such as injector characteristics, injection pressure, piston bowl geometry, compression ratio, intake charge temperature, exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) and supercharging or turbocharging are discussed in this review. The effects of design and operating parameters on HCCI diesel emissions, particularly NO_x and soot, are also investigated. For each of these parameters, the theories are discussed in conjunction with comparative evaluation of studies reported in the specialised literature.     

正庚烷HCCI燃烧下芳香烃及多环芳烃形成的数值模拟

通过修改化学动力学软件CHEMKINⅢ,建立了正庚烷HCCI燃烧下排放特性数值模拟的多区模型.利用此模型对正庚烷HCCI燃烧下芳香烃(苯)与多环芳烃(萘、菲及芘)的生成及演变规律进行了详细分析.计算中采用了正庚烷的燃烧与分解、多环芳烃生成的详细反应机理(共包括107种组分、542个基元反应).结果表明,缸内压力变化趋势的计算结果与实验值基本吻合;核心区由于温度较高,其中的正庚烷已充分燃烧,多环芳烃的质量分数极小;边界层区和缝隙区温度较低,尤其是缝隙区,其温度与壁面温度保持一致,正庚烷在其中不能充分燃烧和分解,同时这两个区域成为多环芳烃的主要来源.     

Application of exhaust gas fuel reforming in diesel and homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines fuelled with biofuels

This paper documents the application of exhaust gas fuel reforming of two alternative fuels, biodiesel and bioethanol, in internal combustion engines. The exhaust gas fuel reforming process is a method of on-board production of hydrogen-rich gas by catalytic reaction of fuel and engine exhaust gas. The benefits of exhaust gas fuel reforming have been demonstrated by adding simulated reformed gas to a diesel engine fuelled by a mixture of 50% ultra low sulphur diesel (ULSD) and 50% rapeseed methyl ester (RME) as well as to a homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine fuelled by bioethanol. In the case of the biodiesel fuelled engine, a reduction of NO_x emissions was achieved without considerable smoke increase. In the case of the bioethanol fuelled HCCI engine, the engine tolerance to exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) was extended and hence the typically high pressure rise rates of HCCI engines, associated with intense combustion noise, were reduced.     

Experimental study of the performances of a modified diesel engine operating in homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion mode versus the original diesel combustion mode

Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion mode provides very low NO_x and soot emissions; however, it has some challenges associated with hydrocarbon (HC) emissions, fuel consumption, difficult control of start of ignition and bad behaviour to high loads. Cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) is a common way to control in-cylinder NO_x production in diesel and HCCI combustion mode. However EGR has different effects on combustion and emissions, which are difficult to distinguish. This work is intended to characterize an engine that has been modified from the base diesel engine (FL1 906 DEUTZ-DITER) to work in HCCI combustion mode. It shows the experimental results for the modified diesel engine in HCCI combustion mode fueled with commercial diesel fuel compared to the diesel engine mode. An experimental installation, in conjunction with systematic tests to determine the optimum crank angle of fuel injection, has been used to measure the evolution of the cylinder pressure and to get an estimate of the heat release rate from a single-zone numerical model. From these the angle of start of combustion has been obtained. The performances and emissions of HC, CO and the huge reduction of NO_x and smoke emissions of the engine are presented. These results have allowed a deeper analysis of the effects of external EGR on the HCCI operation mode, on some engine design parameters and also on NO_x emission reduction.     

Numerical study of effects of reformed exhaust gas recirculation (REGR) on dimethyl ether HCCI combustion

The effects of reformed exhaust gas recirculation (REGR) on combustion and emissions of dimethyl ether (DME) homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines are studied by multi-dimensional CFD coupled with chemical kinetic model. The results show that REGR combing EGR and DME reformed gases (DRG) improves combustion and emissions. REGR can delay ignition time by both EGR and DRG, and makes main combustion closer to top dead center (TDC), which is beneficial to reducing compression negative work and broadening load range of HCCI engines. The interaction of DRG and EGR helps avoid too high pressure rise rate or low power performance when being applied independent of each other. HC, CO and NO_x emissions can be controlled simultaneously by REGR. Both advantages of DRG and EGR are used to decrease the emissions of HCCI engines by REGR, while the disadvantages of high emissions are alleviated when one of them is applied.     

An integrated model for negative valve overlap early injection HCCI combustion

Using exhaust top dead center injection (ETCI) mode to realize homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion would cause fuel wall wetting and combustion efficiency reduction, and there is no effective one-dimension simulation model to calculate and analyze the fuel wall wetting and evaporation process. In the research, a new type of integrated model is developed for the new application, HCCI combustion simulation based on ETCI mode. The model includes the following sub-models: fuel injection model, impingement model, film evaporation model, and combustion model. The improved Hiroyasu model and the Bai's model are coupled with homogenous combustion model and film evaporation model to calculate impingement fuel evaporation. The developed model is validated by experiment in a single cylinder diesel engine with ETCI combustion mode. The simulation and experimental results show that, film evaporation is mainly related to cylinder gas temperature and wall temperature, and there is an evident two stage heating process. The cumulate heat release rate is linear with exhaust valve closing (EVC) timing and wall temperature. The burned fuel fraction increases by 6 percent as the EVC timing advances by every 10 °CA, and increases by 4 percent as the wall temperature increases by every 50 K. The cumulate heat release rate decreases with the increase of boosting pressure, and the higher the boosting pressure, the smaller the decrease degree of cumulate heat release rate is.     

内部EGR与汽油燃料HCCI燃烧关系的探讨

HCCI燃烧是一种新的发动机燃烧技术，介绍了HCCI燃烧的实现方式，指出EGR是最有可能获得四冲程汽油HCCI燃烧的方法，并且其可以通过早关排气阀得到；简要分析了内部EGR对HCCI燃烧的影响；阐述了为捕捉残余废气而改变气门正时过程中存在的泵气损失和回流损失问题。     

A simulation of the combustion of hydrogen in HCCI engines using a 3D model with detailed chemical kinetics

The influence of changes in the swirl velocity of the intake mixture on the combustion processes within a homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine fueled with hydrogen were investigated analytically. A turbulent transient 3D predictive computational model which was developed and applied to the HCCI engine combustion system, incorporated detailed chemical kinetics for the oxidation of hydrogen. The effects of changes in the initial intake swirl, temperature and pressure, engine speed and compression and equivalence ratios on the combustion characteristics of a hydrogen fuelled HCCI engine were also examined. It is shown that an increase in the initial flow swirl ratio or speed lengthens the delay period for autoignition and extends the combustion period while reducing NO_x emissions. There are optimum values of the initial swirl ratio and engine speed for a certain mixture intake temperature, pressure, compression and equivalence ratios operational conditions that can achieve high thermal efficiencies and low NO_x emissions while reducing the tendency to knock     

Experimental study of combustion and emission characteristics of ethanol fuelled port injected homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion engine

The homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) is an alternative combustion concept for in reciprocating engines. The HCCI combustion engine offers significant benefits in terms of its high efficiency and ultra low emissions. In this investigation, port injection technique is used for preparing homogeneous charge. The combustion and emission characteristics of a HCCI engine fuelled with ethanol were investigated on a modified two-cylinder, four-stroke engine. The experiment is conducted with varying intake air temperature (120–150 °C) and at different air–fuel ratios, for which stable HCCI combustion is achieved. In-cylinder pressure, heat release analysis and exhaust emission measurements were employed for combustion diagnostics. In this study, effect of intake air temperature on combustion parameters, thermal efficiency, combustion efficiency and emissions in HCCI combustion engine is analyzed and discussed in detail. The experimental results indicate that the air–fuel ratio and intake air temperature have significant effect on the maximum in-cylinder pressure and its position, gas exchange efficiency, thermal efficiency, combustion efficiency, maximum rate of pressure rise and the heat release rate. Results show that for all stable operation points, NO_x emissions are lower than 10 ppm however HC and CO emissions are higher.     

The simulation based on CHEMKIN for homogeneous charge compression ignition combustion with on-board fuel reformation in the chamber

In order to control the combustion phase precisely and remarkably extend the operation range of Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) engine, a method of on-board controllable phase fuel reformation in the reforming chamber is proposed in this paper. HCCI combustion is dominated by chemical kinetics, and H₂, OH, H and O are the key radicals and play an important role in controlling HCCI combustion. The attempt of the proposed method is to try to change the control of chemical kinetics into a manipulation of fuel reforming system. The system includes an independent reformation chamber with an injector and a controllable valve that connects reformation chamber and the main chamber. The reforming fuel is reformed into H₂-rich gas. The reformed gas enters the cylinder to change the combustion phasing at compression stroke. The model of HCCI with reforming process is built with CHEMKIN 4.1 software, and HCCI process with on-board reformation is simulated. The results show that the components of the reformed gas are influenced by initial temperature and reforming mixture concentration. The maximum fraction of H₂ may be obtained by optimizing the trap timing and reforming mixture concentration (optimal value: Φ_T = 31 °CA, λ₃ = 0.4). The optimized reformed gas does have the ability to change the combustion phasing of HCCI engine. With the help of the on-board controllable phase fuel reformation system, HCCI combustion process can be precisely controlled, and the HCCI engine is allowed to operate under lower intake temperature and higher speed condition, and to keep high IMEP and indicated thermal efficiency.     

汽油机均质压燃燃烧模型及其在CAI发动机模拟中的应用

通过分析4冲程HCCI／CAI燃烧特性，以大量的CAI燃烧示功图数据为基础，总结出一个适用于描述CAI燃烧速度的经验函数．将该函数应用于GT-Power模拟软件，并结合自行开发的凸轮型线自动生成模块，研究了进、排气门定时及升程等参数对CAI燃烧的影响，以及拓展CAI运行范围的途径．结果表明，排气门升程对平均指示压力(IMEP)的影响比进气门升程要大，较大的排气门升程有利于大负荷工况，在大进气门升程时，由于进气回流导致负荷减少．     

在汽油机上实施HCCI的技术策略

均质混合气压燃(HCCI)燃烧方式，是一种克服常规柴油机和汽油机缺点、集常规汽油机和柴油机优点于一体的新概念燃烧。本文分析了汽油机实施HCCI的可行性，介绍了HCCI发动机实用化所面临的问题，提出了双工作模式的折衷方案：在中低负荷工况实施HCCI，而在大负荷工况和冷起动工况恢复常规发动机工作方式。推荐可变压缩比(VCR)方案、可变废气再循环率(EGR)方案、可变排气门关闭时刻方案，以及废气再循环滚流分层充气方案等。为尽快在汽油机上实施HCCI燃烧方式指出了技术方向。     

Probability density function treatment of turbulence/chemistry interactions during the ignition of a temperature-stratified mixture for application to HCCI engine modeling

Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine technology promises to reduce NO_x and soot emissions while achieving high thermal efficiency. Temperature and mixture stratification are regarded as effective means of controlling the start of combustion and reducing the abrupt pressure rise at high loads. Probability density function methods are currently being pursued as a viable approach to modeling the effects of turbulent mixing and mixture stratification on HCCI ignition. In this paper we present an assessment of the merits of three widely used mixing models in reproducing the moments of reactive scalars during the ignition of a lean hydrogen/air mixture (Φ=0.1, p=41 atm, and T=1070 K) under increasing temperature stratification and subject to decaying turbulence. The results from the solution of the evolution equation for a spatially homogeneous joint PDF of the reactive scalars are compared with available direct numerical simulation (DNS) data [E.R. Hawkes, R. Sankaran, P.P. Pébay, J.H. Chen, Combust. Flame 145 (1-2) (2006) 145-159]. The mixing models are found able to quantitatively reproduce the time history of the heat release rate, first and second moments of temperature, and hydroxyl radical mass fraction from the DNS results. Most importantly, the dependence of the heat release rate on the extent of the initial temperature stratification in the charge is also well captured.