Study of the characteristic of diesel spray combustion and soot formation using laser-induced incandescence (LII)

In this paper, the planar images of diesel spray combustion flame and soot formation were measured and analyzed by using LII, in a constant volume combustion vessel. The effects of combustion flame and fuel–air mixing characteristics on soot formation and distribution of soot concentration were studied at different conditions. The result indicates that, with increase in ambient temperature and pressure, the ignition delay of diesel fuel is shorter. The increase of ambient temperature and pressure and the reduction of injection pressure shorten the diesel flame lift-off length. The lower the ambient temperature and pressure, the weaker LII signal intensity. At the same ambient temperature and pressure condition, the higher the diesel injection pressure, the smaller the soot production in diesel jet spray, and soot particles are primarily produced in the relative fuel-rich region, which is encompassed by the flame surface front at the downstream of the diesel jet.     

Effect of natural gas enrichment with hydrogen on combustion process and emission characteristic of a dual fuel diesel engine

The paper presents results of experimental research on a dual-fuel engine powered by diesel fuel and natural gas enriched with hydrogen. The authors attempted to replace CNG with hydrogen fuel as much as possible with a constant dose of diesel fuel of 10% of energy fraction. The tests were carried out for constant engine load of IMEP = 0.7 MPa and a rotational speed of n = 1500 rpm. The effect of hydrogen on combustion, heat release, combustion stability and exhaust emissions was analyzed. In the test engine, the limit of hydrogen energy fraction was 19%. The increase in the fraction caused an increase in the cycle-by-cycle variation and the occurrence of engine knocking. It was shown that the enrichment of CNG with hydrogen allows for the improvement in the combustion process compared to the co-combustion of diesel fuel with non-enriched CNG, where the reduction in the duration of combustion by 30% and shortening the time of achieving 50% of MFB by 50% were obtained. The evaluation of the spread of the end of combustion is also presented. For H₂ energetic share over 20%, the spread of end of combustion was 48° of crank angle. Measurement of exhaust emissions during the tests revealed an increase in THC and NO_x emissions.     

Investigation of the effects of hydrogen on cylinder pressure in a split-injection diesel engine at heavy EGR

The distinctive properties of hydrogen have initiated considerable applied research related to the internal combustion engine. Recently, it has been reported that NO_x emissions were reduced by using hydrogen in a diesel engine at low temperature and heavy EGR conditions. As the continuing study, cylinder pressure was also investigated to determine the combustion characteristics and their relationship to NO_x emissions. The test engine was operated at constant speed and fixed diesel fuel injection rate (1500 rpm, 2.5 kg/h). Diesel fuel was injected in a split pattern into a 2-L diesel engine. The cylinder pressure was measured for different hydrogen flow rates and EGR ratios. The intake manifold temperature was controlled to be the same to avoid the gas intake temperature variations under the widely differing levels (2%-31%) of EGR. The measured cylinder pressure was analyzed for characteristic combustion values, such as mass burn fraction and combustion duration.The rising crank angle of the heat release rate was unaffected by the presence of hydrogen. However, supplying hydrogen extended the main combustion duration. This longer main combustion duration was particularly noticeable at the heavy EGR condition. It correlated well with the reduced NO_x emissions.     

二甲基醚（ＤＭＥ）喷雾一般牧场生的试验研究

介绍了在高压环境下对二甲基醚（ＤＭＥ）喷雾一般特性的试验研究结果,并与柴油的喷雾特性进行了比较。试验研究是在定容燃烧弹上进行的,用阴影法通过高速数字摄影机拍摄了二甲基醚和柴油的喷雾发展过程,应用计算机图像处理进行喷雾过程图像再现。研究结果表明：ＤＭＥ的喷雾贯穿蹁距离比柴油小,喷雾锥角比柴油大;在喷雾自由发展过程中,ＤＭＥ的蒸发速度比柴油快;环境密度对ＤＭＥ喷雾特性的影响与柴油相似,即密度增大,锥角增大,贯穿距离减小。在燃烧室壁面附近,柴油的喷雾锥角迅速增大,而ＤＭＥ喷雾锥角几乎没有明显的变化。     

环境气体温度和密度对柴油机高压喷雾的扩展和碰壁过程的影响

本文在定容弹中用高速摄影研究了环境气体温度和密度对喷射压力为75～134MPa的柴油机喷雾贯穿距离、喷雾角及碰壁过程的影响.结果表明,环境温度对高压喷雾的影响远比对常规压力喷雾显著.环境温度升高后,高压喷雾的贯穿距离有所减小,而喷雾角则明显增大,在高温高密度下,喷雾角可增至30°以上.高压喷雾与常温壁面碰撞时,几乎看不到反跳现象,但在壁温较高时,壁面附近将有较浓密的液雾,且在液雾和壁面间有一蒸气层.环境密度对高压喷雾的影响在定性上与对常规压力喷雾相同.当喷射压力由75MPa提高到134MPa时,贯穿距离反而有所减小.本文根据这一实验结果提出了一个考虑了喷射压力和温度影响的计算贯穿距离的经验公式.     

Research of performance and emission indicators of the compression-ignition engine powered by hydrogen - Diesel mixtures

The purpose of this study is to use the hydrogen – diesel mixture in Audi/VW 1.9 TDI turbocharged CI engine equipped with dynamometer and examine the performance and emission indicators by comparing it with sole diesel mode. The recent diesel emission scandals because of manufacturers cheating the laboratory tests, have initiated the discussions about the sustainable and environmentally friendly diesel engines. The CI engine without major engine modifications was set to operate at two speeds of 1900 rpm and 2500 rpm. At each of speed, the experiment was conducted at three BMEP: 0.4 MPa, 0.6 MPa, and 0.8 MPa. The test engine was operated using diesel fuel with amounts of 10 l/min, 20 l/min, and 30 l/min of hydrogen gas, supplied with air into intake manifold before the turbocharger. Relatively low hydrogen fraction (max. 15.74%) has effect on diesel combustion process and performance indicators at the all range of BMEP. The in-cylinder peak pressure at both speeds of 1900 rpm and 2500 rpm was lower than that with pure diesel fuel, as the small amount of hydrogen shortens the CI engine ignition delay period and decreases the rate of pressure rise. The decrease of BTE noticed, and increase of BSFC was registered with low hydrogen fraction (hydrogen amounts of 10 l/min, 20 l/min). However, with increase of hydrogen amount to 30 l/min, the BTE increased and BSFC decreased to the level, which was lower than that at the pure diesel test. The supply of hydrogen positively effects on engine emissions: the smokiness, NO_x, CO₂, CO decreased, the only hydrocarbon increased. The effect of hydrogen fraction on the combustion and emission characteristics of the diesel - hydrogen mixture was validated by AVL (Anstalt für Verbrennungskraftmaschinen List) BOOST and analysed with presentations of the main limitations and perspectives.     

Performance and combustion characteristic of CI engine fueled with hydrogen enriched diesel

The combustion of hydrogen–diesel blend fuel was investigated under simulated direct injection (DI) diesel engine conditions. The investigation presented in this paper concerns numerical analysis of neat diesel combustion mode and hydrogen enriched diesel combustion in a compression ignition (CI) engine. The parameters varied in this simulation included: H₂/diesel blend fuel ratio, engine speed, and air/fuel ratio. The study on the simultaneous combustion of hydrogen and diesel fuel was conducted with various hydrogen doses in the range from 0.05% to 50% (by volume) for different engine speed from 1000 – 4000 rpm and air/fuel ratios (A/F) varies from 10 – 80. The results show that, applying hydrogen as an extra fuel, which can be added to diesel fuel in the (CI) engine results in improved engine performance and reduce emissions compared to the case of neat diesel operation because this measure approaches the combustion process to constant volume. Moreover, small amounts of hydrogen when added to a diesel engine shorten the diesel ignition lag and, in this way, decrease the rate of pressure rise which provides better conditions for soft run of the engine. Comparative results are given for various hydrogen/diesel ratio, engine speeds and loads for conventional Diesel and dual fuel operation, revealing the effect of dual fuel combustion on engine performance and exhaust emissions.     

Numerical investigation on the effects of load conditions and hydrogen-air ratio on the combustion processes of a HSDI engine

Owing to high specific energy and low emissions production, hydrogen is a desirable alternative fuel. The combustion and emission performance can be improved by hydrogen addition injected in-cylinder, intake manifold and aspirated with air. However, engine loads and hydrogen-air ration have a significant effect on the performance, combustion and emission of the diesel-hydrogen (high speed direct injection) HSDI engine. In this paper, the CFD method is used to calculate the combustion process of a diesel-hydrogen dual HSDI engine working at constant speed of 4000 rpm, at different hydrogen added from intake port (hydrogen volume fraction of 0%–10%) and five engine loads (equivalent to 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100% of its maximum output power), respectively. The modelling results showed that the in-cylinder pressure and temperature under low engine load were more affected by hydrogen addition. With increasing hydrogen volume fraction, the indicated expansion work and in-cylinder peak pressure increased, and combustion duration decreased due to faster fuel-air mixing and spray flame speed.     

Effects of variable O2 concentrations and injection pressures on the combustion and emissions characteristics of the petro-diesel and hydrotreated vegetable oil-based fuels under the simulated diesel engine condition

This experimental research investigates the effects of variable O₂ concentrations and injection pressures on the combustion and emissions characteristics of the diesel (B7) and the hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO)-based fuels. The O₂ concentrations included 21%, 15% and 10% O₂, while the injection pressures were 80 and 120 MPa. The experimental fuels were the diesel fuel (B7), the neat HVO, the 20%, 50% and 80% HVO (by mass fraction) blended with the diesel. The experiments were carried out in a rapid compression-expansion machine (RCEM) under the direct injection (DI) diesel combustion condition. The analysis was undertaken using the two-color method. The experimental results indicated that the ignition delay, the heat release rate, the flame temperature, the soot density-KL factor, the NO_x and soot-out emissions were inversely correlated to the HVO fraction in the blend. In addition, the findings revealed the similar flame profiles in which the higher flame temperature region and the darker KL density were concentrated around the spray flame upstream, regardless of the HVO mixing ratio. Besides, the decrease in the O₂ concentration resulted in the lower heat release rate, integral heat release, flame temperature, KL factor and NO_x emissions but the longer ignition delay and higher soot concentration, with the highest soot concentration observed under the 15% O₂ environment. Nevertheless, the higher pressure differential (i.e. between the injection pressure and the ambient pressure) contributed to the shorter ignition delay, higher heat release rate, early peak of the flame temperature, wider combustion area, faster soot oxidation rate and higher NO_x production.     

Effect of hydrogen enrichment in the intake air of diesel engine fuelled with honge biodiesel blend and diesel

In the current investigation, the enrichment of hydrogen with the honge biodiesel blend and diesel is used in a compression ignition engine. The biodiesel is derived from the honge oil and mixed with diesel fuel by 20% (v/v). Thereafter, hydrogen at different volume flow rates (10 and 13 lpm) is introduced into the intake manifold. The outcomes by enrichment of hydrogen on the performance, combustion and emission characteristics are investigated by examining the brake thermal efficiency, fuel consumption, HC, CO, CO₂, NOₓ emissions, in-cylinder pressure, combustion duration, and rate of heat release. The engine fuelled with honge biodiesel blend is found to enhance the thermal efficiency, combustion characteristics. Compare to diesel, the BTE increased by 2.2% and 6% less fuel consumption for the HB20 + 13H₂ blend. Further, reduction in the emission of exhausts gases like CO and HC by 21% and 24%, respectively, are obtained. This is due to carbon-free structure in hydrogen. Moreover, due to high pressure in the cylinder, there is a slight increase in oxides of nitrogen emission compare to diesel. The combustion characteristics such as rate of heat release, combustion duration, and maximum ₂rate of pressure rise and in-cylinder pressure are high due to hydrogen.     

Experimental investigation concerning the influence of fuel type and properties on the injection and atomization of liquid biofuels in an optical combustion chamber

Due to the scarcity of fossil fuels and the future stringent emission limits, there is an increasing interest for the use of renewable biofuels in compression ignition engines. However, these fuels have different physical, chemical and thermodynamic properties affecting atomization, spray development and combustion processes. The results reported in this paper have been obtained by experimentation with a constant volume combustion chamber. The influences of physical fuel properties on injections under non-evaporating conditions are studied, using a pump-line-nozzle system from a medium speed diesel engine with injection pressures up to 1200 bar, by changing the fuel type and temperature. Experiments were conducted for diesel, biodiesel, straight vegetable oils and animal fats. Injection pressure and needle lift measurements were analyzed. A high speed camera was used to visualize the spray, which enabled us to study the spray penetration and spray angle. Our results show that the fuel temperature is an important parameter to control because it significantly affects the fuel properties. Both the injection timing and injection duration are affected by the fuel properties. The influences of these properties on the spray development were less pronounced. At low temperatures, a strongly deteriorated atomization of oils and fats was observed.     

Effect of hydrogen addition to intake gas on combustion and exhaust emission characteristics of a diesel engine

The present study experimentally investigated the performance and emission characteristics of the diesel engine with hydrogen added to the intake air at late diesel-fuel injection timings. The diesel-fuel injection timing and the hydrogen fraction in the intake mixture were varied while the available heat produced by diesel-fuel and hydrogen per second of diesel fuel and hydrogen was kept constant at a certain value. NO showed minimum at specific hydrogen fraction. The maximum rate of incylinder pressure rise also showed minimum at 10 vol. % hydrogen fraction. However, it is desirable to set the maximum rate of incylinder pressure rise less than 0.5 MPa/deg. to realize low level of combustion noise and NO emission. We attempt to reduce further NO and smoke emissions by EGR. As the result, in the case of the diesel-fuel injection timing of −2 °. ATDC with 3.9 vol. % hydrogen addition, the smoke emission value was 0%, NO emission was low, the cyclic variation was low, and the maximum rate of incylinder pressure rise was acceptable under a nearly stoichiometric condition without sacrificing indicated thermal efficiency.     

Direct injection of hydrogen main fuel and diesel pilot fuel in a retrofitted single-cylinder compression ignition engine

Up to 90% hydrogen energy fraction was achieved in a hydrogen diesel dual-fuel direct injection (H2DDI) light-duty single-cylinder compression ignition engine. An automotive-size inline single-cylinder diesel engine was modified to install an additional hydrogen direct injector. The engine was operated at a constant speed of 2000 revolutions per minute and fixed combustion phasing of ?10 crank angle degrees before top dead centre (°CA bTDC) while evaluating the power output, efficiency, combustion and engine-out emissions. A parametric study was conducted at an intermediate load with 20–90% hydrogen energy fraction and 180-0 °CA bTDC injection timing. High indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) of up to 943 kPa and 57.2% indicated efficiency was achieved at 90% hydrogen energy fraction, at the expense of NO_x emissions. The hydrogen injection timing directly controls the mixture condition and combustion mode. Early hydrogen injection timings exhibited premixed combustion behaviour while late injection timings produced mixing-controlled combustion, with an intermediate point reached at 40 °CA bTDC hydrogen injection timing. At 90% hydrogen energy fraction, the earlier injection timing leads to higher IMEP/efficiency but the NO_x increase is inevitable due to enhanced premixed combustion. To keep the NO_x increase minimal and achieve the same combustion phasing of a diesel baseline, the 40 °CA bTDC hydrogen injection timing shows the best performance at which 85.9% CO₂ reduction and 13.3% IMEP/efficiency increase are achieved.     

Experiments on macroscopic spray characteristics of diesel-ethanol with dispersed cerium nanoparticles

In this study, an experiment of macroscopic spray performance of stabilized nanofuels under high injection and ambient pressure is conducted on a Common rail direct fuel injection. The tested nanofuels have been prepared by DE20 (20% ethanol, 80% diesel by volume) blends with nano-CeO₂ at 25 ppm(DE20Ce25), 50 ppm(DE20Ce50),100 ppm(DE20Ce100) respectively. Furthermore, appropriate amount of CTAB whose weight is equal to CeO₂ and 2%vol 1-decanol were added as surfactant additive. All tested fuels were ultrasonically oscillated at a frequency of 40 khz for 45min in order to enhance their stability. The macroscopic spray characteristics of diesel-ethanol with dispersed cerium nanoparticles have been measured using the optical diagnostic techniques of shadowgraph. Comparing with those the pure diesel(D100), the spray penetration of DE20, DE20Ce25, DE20Ce50, DE20Ce100 increased by −3%, −1.8%, −0.3% and 9.5%, while the spray cone angle increased by −3%,4%,2.8% and 12.5% as well as spray area increased by −3%,-1.3%,0.6% and 31% respectively. The addition of nanoparticles also enhances the instability of fuel and shortens the crucial breakup time. In addition, the influence caused by increasing viscosity and surface tension are balanced by the disturbance. Furthermore, the macroscopic spray characteristics of DE20Ce50 show little difference with the pure diesel which means it can be a promising alternative fuel for CI engine with no required modification.     

CFD analysis of hydrogen injection pressure and valve profile law effects on backfire and pre-ignition phenomena in hydrogen-diesel dual fuel engine

This paper focuses on optimizing the hydrogen TMI (timed manifold injection) system through valve lift law and hydrogen injection parameters (pressure, injection inclination and timing) in order to prevent backfire phenomena and improve the volumetric efficiency and mixture formation quality of a dual fuel diesel engine operating at high load and high hydrogen energy share. This was achieved through a numerical simulation using CFD code ANSYS Fluent, developed for a single cylinder hydrogen-diesel dual fuel engine, at constant engine speed of 1500 rpm, 90% of load and 42.5% hydrogen energy share. The developed tool was validated using experimental data. As a results, the operating conditions of maximum valve lift = 10.60 mm and inlet valve closing = 30 °CA ABDC (MVL10 IVC30) prevent the engine from backfire and pre-ignition, and ensure a high volumetric efficiency. Moreover, a hydrogen start of injection of 60 °CA ATDC (HSOI60) is appropriate to provide a pre-cooling effect and thus, reduce the pre-ignition sources and helps to quench any hot residual combustion products. While, the hydrogen injection pressure of 2.7 bar and an inclination of 60°, stimulate a better quality of hydrogen-air mixture. Afterwards, a comparison between combustion characteristics of the optimized hydrogen-diesel dual fuel mode and the baseline (diesel mode) was conducted. The result was, under dual fuel mode there is an increase in combustion characteristics and NOx emissions as well as a decrease in CO2 emissions. For further improvement of dual fuel mode, retarding diesel start of injection (DSOI) strategy was used.     

Experimental investigations on the effect of fuel injection parameters on diesel engine fuelled with biodiesel blend in diesel with hydrogen enrichment

Fuel injection pressure and injection timing are two extensive injection parameters that affect engine performance, combustion, and emissions. This study aims to improve the performance, combustion, and emissions characteristics of a diesel engine by using karanja biodiesel with a flow rate of 10 L per minute (lpm) of enriched hydrogen. In addition, the research mainly focused on the use of biodiesel with hydrogen as an alternative to diesel fuel, which is in rapidly declining demand. The experiments were carried out at a constant speed of 1500 rpm on a single-cylinder, four-stroke, direct injection diesel engine. The experiments are carried out with variable fuel injection pressure of 220, 240, and 260 bar, and injection timings of 21, 23, and 25 °CA before top dead center (bTDC). Results show that karanja biodiesel with enriched hydrogen (KB20H10) increases BTE by 4% than diesel fuel at 240 bar injection pressure and 23° CA bTDC injection timing. For blend KB20H10, the emissions of UHC, CO, and smoke opacity are 33%, 16%, and 28.7% lower than for diesel. On the other hand NOx emissions, rises by 10.3%. The optimal injection parameters for blend KB20H10 were found to be 240 bar injection pressure and 23 °CA bTDC injection timing based on the significant improvement in performance, combustion, and reduction in exhaust emissions.     

Comparison of the combustion and emission characteristics of NH3/NH4NO2 and NH3/H2 in a two-stroke low speed marine engine

As a marine engine fuel of great concern, ammonia needs to be mixed with another high reactive fuel to improve its combustion performance. In this work, the combustion performance of NH₃/NH₄NO₂ and NH₃/H₂ was compared under different boundary conditions (excess air coefficient, initial temperature, pressure and mixing ratio). The numerical simulation of compression combustion is carried out under different power loads. The addition of ammonium nitrite decreases the ignition requirement of ammonia and shortens the ignition delay time of the mixture fuel. The boundary conditions of compression ignition can be reduced by mixing hydrogen and mixing ammonium nitrite, but it is not enough to achieve compression ignition under NH₃/H₂ mode. The addition of 30% ammonium nitrite can reduce the intake temperature to 300–360 K, which makes the compression ignition of the mixed fuel feasible. Meanwhile, in order to reduce the high in-cylinder combustion pressure and improve the combustion performance of the mixed fuel, the fuel injection strategy was proposed to achieve constant combustion pressure of 30 MPa under the premise of less power loss, which is a potential solution for the combustion of ammonia fuel.     

利用PLIEF技术对重型柴油机类似环境条件下柴油喷雾特性和浓度场的定量研究

利用复合激光诱导荧光技术在定容弹内定量研究了环境温度、环境密度、氧浓度等对重型柴油机类似环境条件下柴油喷雾特性和浓度场的影响。试验中,环境密度为20～100kg/m3,氧浓度为15%～21%,喷油压力为100～220MPa。研究发现,提高环境密度,最大液核长度显著缩短;减小喷孔直径,液核最大长度呈线性下降。降低环境温度或提高喷油压力可以弥补减小喷孔直径或提高环境密度对贯穿距离的影响。在增加充分发展期气相喷雾稀混区燃油比例方面,减小喷孔直径、降低环境温度、提高环境密度和提高喷油压力具有相互替代性。     

醇类-汽油混合燃料的喷雾特性

在试验台上,研究了使用汽油醇类混合燃料,其中醇类燃料体积分数分别为10％的乙醇-汽油、30％的乙醇-汽油、10％的正丁醇-汽油和30％的正丁醇-汽油时,直喷汽油机多孔喷油器的喷油率和喷雾特性.结果表明,随着喷油压力的提高,醇类-汽油混合燃料的瞬时喷油率增大,且瞬时喷油率波动性依赖于燃料.同时,喷油压力的提高使得喷雾贯穿距离加大,单次喷油后同一时刻的喷雾差异性变大.在高背压,相同喷油压力下醇类-汽油混合燃料的贯穿距离与汽油接近.背压大小对不同燃料喷油初期的喷雾锥角影响较大.低背压时,汽油的喷雾锥角高于醇类-汽油混合燃料,而高背压时,除了30％乙醇-汽油燃料外,醇类-汽油混合燃料的喷雾锥角更大.     

柴油含水乙醇乳化燃料物性及喷雾燃烧特性研究

试验使用不同配比的柴油含水乙醇乳化燃料,对其理化、喷雾和燃烧特性进行了研究。随着柴油含水乙醇乳化燃料中含水乙醇含量的增加,乳化燃料的密度和运动黏度上升,表面张力略微下降,初始蒸馏温度下降,含氧量升高,十六烷值和低热值降低。试验使用定容燃烧弹,在常温高压和高温高压环境下,对乳化燃料非蒸发喷雾、蒸发喷雾及喷雾燃烧的特性进行了测试。研究结果表明:随着乳化燃料中含水乙醇比例升高,非蒸发喷雾贯穿距和喷雾锥角变化不大;蒸发喷雾贯穿距和喷雾锥角略微减小,但无明显规律,而蒸发喷雾中液相贯穿距离明显增加;燃烧火焰自发光亮度逐渐降低,表征碳烟生成量逐渐减少;在900K环境温度、21%氧体积分数条件下着火滞燃期变化不大。