Experimental investigation on the effect of charge temperature on ethanol fueled HCCI combustion engine

In this investigation, an attempt has been made to study by varying the charge temperature on the ethanol fueled Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion engine. Ethanol was injected into the intake manifold by using port fuel injection technique while the intake air was heated for achieving stable HCCI operation. The effect of intake air temperature on the combustion, performance, and emissions of the ethanol HCCI operation was compared with the standard diesel operation and presented. The results indicate that the intake air temperature has a significant impact on in-cylinder pressure, ringing intensity, combustion efficiency, thermal efficiency and emissions. At 170°C, the maximum value of combustion efficiency and brake thermal efficiency of ethanol are found to be 98.2% and 43%, respectively. The NO emission is found to be below 11 ppm while the smoke emission is negligible. However, the UHC and CO emissions are higher for the HCCI operation.

     

An investigation of the effect of changes in engine operating conditions on ignition in an hcci engine

The dependence of the ignition timing in an HCCI engine on intake temperature and pressure, equivalence ratio, and fuel species is investigated with a zero-dimensional model combined with a detailed chemical kinetics. The accuracy of the model is evaluated by comparing measured and computed results in a propane-fueled HCCI engine. It is shown that the peak pressure values are reproduced within 10% and ignition timing within 5° CA. The heat loss through the walls is found to affect significantly on the ignition timing for different inlet conditions. It is also shown that for the propane-fueled engine, the tolerance in intake temperatures is 20–25K and the tolerance in intake pressure is about 1 bar for stable operation without misfire or too early ignition. Comparison of propane and heptane fuels indicates that the tendency to misfire when heptane is employed as the fuel is less than that when propane is employed with the same wall temperature conditions. However, the heptane-fueled engine may have a Lower compression ratio to avoid too early ignition and hence lower efficiency. For the selected set of engine parameters, stable operations might be achieved for the heptane-fueled engine with twice as much tolerance in intake temperatures as for the propane-fueled engine.     

Estimation of optimum number of cycles for combustion analysis using measured in-cylinder pressure signal in conventional CI engine

Analysis of measured in-cylinder pressure data provides various parameters that characterize engine combustion process. Advanced engine control technologies use cylinder pressure based combustion parameters for closed loop control. Four step signal processing (i) absolute pressure correction, (ii) crank angle position referencing, (iii) cycle averaging and (iv) filtering is typically applied to get sufficiently accurate cylinder pressure data for an engine cycle. This paper focuses on cycle averaging and filtering of in-cylinder pressure signal from a conventional compression ignition (CI) engine. Experiments are conducted at different engine load and compression ratios at 1500 rpm. The in-cylinder pressure trace of 2500 consecutive engine cycles is recorded and analyzed. Effect of in-cylinder pressure signal noise and cyclic variation on combustion analysis is investigated. A method based on standard deviation of pressure and pressure rise rate is used to find sufficient minimum number of engine cycles to be recorded for averaging to get reasonably accurate pressure data independent of cyclic variability.     

The effect of combustion parameters on the nitric oxide emission in direct injection type diesel engine

This paper presents the investigation of influence factors on the output performance and the reduction of exhaust emission in the direct injection type diesel engine. In this work, the analysis of combustion products and combustion characteristics are investigated by numerical method and experiment under the various engine operating conditions. The combusion performance and exhaust emissions are analyzed in terms of the heat release, cylinder pressure and major exhaust emissions of engine. The accuracy of the prediction versus experimental data and the capability of the heat release, cylinder pressure and all the major exhaust emissions are demonstrated. The results of this study show that the combustion parameters have influence on the combustion processes and the nitric oxide emission in the direct injection type diesel engine. The nitric oxide concentration decreases with the increase of engine speed and the advance of injection timing.     

内燃机机械噪声与燃烧噪声识别

针对内燃机噪声识别问题,建立数学模型并编制相应的程序,实现燃烧噪声和机械噪声的频谱分离和A计权声功率级计算.以单缸四冲程汽油机为例,通过构造包含干扰噪声的理论算例仿真识别,验证了程序的准确性和实用性.识别结果表明,分离前/后的燃烧噪声和机械噪声的频谱吻合良好,声功率级误差很小.     

A study on the characteristics of spray and combustion in a HCCI engine according to various injection angles and timings

Premixed diesel engines have the potential to achieve a more homogeneous, leaner mixture near TDC compared to conventional diesel engines. Early studies have shown that the fuel injection timing and injection angle affect the mixture formation in a HCCI (Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition) engine. Therefore in this study, we investigated the relationship between combustion and mixture formations accordance with injection conditions in a common rail direct injection type HCCI engine using an early injection strategy. From this results, we found that the fuel injection timing and injection angle affect the mixture formation and in turn affect combustion in the HCCI engine. In addition, this study revealed that the injection angle of 100° is effective to reduce smoke emission without any sacrificing power in the early injection case.     

Effects of various baffle designs on acoustic characteristics in combustion chamber of liquid rocket engine

Effects of various baffle designs on acoustic characteristics in combustion chamber are numerically investigated by adopting linear acoustic analysis. A hub-blade configuration with five blades is selected as a candidate baffle and five variants of baffles with various specifications are designed depending on baffle height and hub position. As damping parameters, natural-frequency shift and damping factor are considered and the damping capacity of various baffle designs is evaluated. Increase in baffle height results in more damping capacity and the hub position affects appreciably the damping of the first radial resonant mode. Depending on baffle height, two close resonant modes could be overlapped and thereby the damping factor for one resonant mode is increased exceedingly. The present procedure based on acoustic analysis is expected to be a useful tool to predict acoustic field in combustion chamber and to design the passive control devices such as baffle and acoustic resonator.     

The effect of exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) on combustion stability, engine performance and exhaust emissions in a gasoline engine

The EGR system has been widely used to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) emission, to improve fuel economy and suppress knock by using the characteristics of charge dilution. However, as the EGR rate at a given engine operating condition increases, the combustion instability increases. The combustion instability increases cyclic variations resulting in the deterioration of engine performance and emissions. Therefore, the optimum EGR rate should be carefully determined in order to obtain the better engine performance and emissions. An experimental study has been performed to investigate the effects of EGR on combustion stability, engine performance, NOx and the other exhaust emissions from 1. 5 liter gasoline engine. Operating conditions are selected from the test result of the high speed and high acceleration region of SFTP mode which generates more NOx and needs higher engine speed compared to FTP-75 (Federal Test Procedure) mode. Engine power, fuel consumption and exhaust emissions are measured with various EGR rate. Combustion stability is analyzed by examining the variation of indicated mean effective pressure (COV_imep) and the timings of maximum pressure (P_max) location using pressure sensor. Engine performance is analyzed by investigating engine power and maximum cylinder pressure and brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC).     

Separation of combustion noise and piston-slap in diesel engine—Part I: Separation of combustion noise and piston-slap in diesel engine by cyclic Wiener filtering

The main purpose of this study is to characterize the relative noise given out by a diesel engine, around the Top Dead Centre (TDC) by quantifying the proportions of “mechanical noise” originating mainly from piston-slap on the one hand and ‘thermal noise” originating from combustion on the other hand. Two different approaches are described here to solve this problem.In the first part of the paper, the cylinder pressure is measured and used as a reference in order to reconstruct the thermal noise. Next, we propose a method based on applying a cyclic Wiener filter to the measured cylinder pressure in order to separate the noises of mechanical and thermal origins. The final result is to reduce the engine resulting noise.The second part of the paper is devoted to blind source separation (BSS) methods applied on signals issued from accelerometers placed on one of the cylinders. It develops a BSS method based on a convolutive model of non-stationary mixtures and introduces a new method based on the joint diagonalization of time varying spectral matrices of the observations. Both methods are then applied to real data and the estimated sources are finally validated by several physical arguments.     

Multi-objective optimization of combustion,performance and emission parameters in a jatropha biodiesel engine using Non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II

The present work studies and identifies the different variables that affect the output parameters involved in a single cylinder direct injection compression ignition (CI) engine using jatropha biodiesel. Response surface methodology based on Central composite design (CCD) is used to design the experiments. Mathematical models are developed for combustion parameters (Brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) and peak cylinder pressure (P_max)), performance parameter brake thermal efficiency (BTE) and emission parameters (CO, NO _x , unburnt HC and smoke) using regression techniques. These regression equations are further utilized for simultaneous optimization of combustion (BSFC, P_max), performance (BTE) and emission (CO, NO _x , HC, smoke) parameters. As the objective is to maximize BTE and minimize BSFC, P_max, CO, NO _x , HC, smoke, a multiobjective optimization problem is formulated. Nondominated sorting genetic algorithm-II is used in predicting the Pareto optimal sets of solution. Experiments are performed at suitable optimal solutions for predicting the combustion, performance and emission parameters to check the adequacy of the proposed model. The Pareto optimal sets of solution can be used as guidelines for the end users to select optimal combination of engine output and emission parameters depending upon their own requirements.     

航空发动机全流程参数试验中温度和压力测量综述

航空发动机全流程参数测量是发动机研制阶段的重要环节,是全面了解发动机性能的唯一手段。国内外各大发动机研究机构和工厂对此都非常重视并相当保密。对国内外航空发动机全流程参数测量发展状况进行了介绍,主要对试验中发动机温度和压力的测量技术进行了归纳和分析。     

几何参数对层板冷却性能影响的数值模拟研究

对12种不同几何结构尺寸的层板进行了系统的耦合传热数值计算，研究了通道高度、扰流柱直径、孔间距与孔径比等几何参数对层板冷却效果的影响。结果表明，在相同的冷气密流条件下，减小通道高度可显著提高冷却效果，孔间距对冷却效果影响不大。这里的结果可为层板的优化设计提供参考。     

Numerical analysis of the combustion process in a four-stroke compressed natural gas engine with direct injection system

In this paper, a numerical study to simulate and analyze the combustion process occurred in a compressed natural gas direct injection (CNG-DI) engine by using a multi-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code was presented. The investigation was performed on a single cylinder of the 1.6-liter engine running at wide open throttle at a fixed speed of 2000 rpm. The mesh generation was established via an embedded algorithm for moving meshes and boundaries for providing a more accurate transient condition of the operating engine. The combustion process was characterized with the eddy-break-up model of Magnussen for unpremixed or diffusion reaction. The modeling of gaseous fuel injection was described to define the start and end of injection timing. The utilized ignition strategy into the computational mesh was also explained to obtain the real spark ignition timing. The natural gas employed is considered to be 100% methane (CH₄) with three global step reaction scheme. The CFD simulation was started from the intake valves opening until the time before exhaust valves opening. The results of CFD simulation were then compared with the data obtained from the single-cylinder engine experiment and showed a close agreement. For verification purpose, comparison between numerical and experimental work are in the form of average in-cylinder pressure, engine power as well as emission level of CO and NO. This paper was presented at the 9^th Asian International Conference on Fluid Machinery (AICFM9), Jeju, Korea, October 16–19, 2007.     

A numerical study on the soot and combustion performance of a diesel engine with pip shape

Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology - The shape of the combustion chamber plays an important role in the formation of the air-fuel mixture in the chamber, which has a great influence on...     

Simulation research on the effect of cooled EGR, supercharging and compression ratio on downsized SI engine knock

Knock in spark-ignition(SI) engines severely limits engine performance and thermal efficiency. The researches on knock of downsized SI engine have mainly focused on structural design, performance optimization and advanced combustion modes, however there is little for simulation study on the effect of cooled exhaust gas recirculation(EGR) combined with downsizing technologies on SI engine performance. On the basis of mean pressure and oscillating pressure during combustion process, the effect of different levels of cooled EGR ratio, supercharging and compression ratio on engine dynamic and knock characteristic is researched with three- dimensional KIVA-3V program coupled with pressure wave equation. The cylinder pressure, combustion temperature, ignition delay timing, combustion duration, maximum mean pressure, and maximum oscillating pressure at different initial conditions are discussed and analyzed to investigate potential approaches to inhibiting engine knock while improving power output. The calculation results of the effect of just cooled EGR on knock characteristic show that appropriate levels of cooled EGR ratio can effectively suppress cylinder high-frequency pressure oscillations without obvious decrease in mean pressure. Analysis of the synergistic effect of cooled EGR, supercharging and compression ratio on knock characteristic indicates that under the condition of high supercharging and compression ratio, several times more cooled EGR ratio than that under the original condition is necessarily utilized to suppress knock occurrence effectively. The proposed method of synergistic effect of cooled EGR and downsizing technologies on knock characteristic, analyzed from the aspects of mean pressure and oscillating pressure, is an effective way to study downsized SI engine knock and provides knock inhibition approaches in practical engineering.     

The effect of the cutting parameters on performance of WEDM

In this study, variations of cutting performance with pulse time, open circuit voltage, wire speed and dielectric fluid pressure were experimentally investigated in Wire Electrical Discharge Machining (WEDM) process. Brass wire with 0.25 mm diameter and AISI 4140 steel with 10 mm thickness were used as tool and work materials in the experiments. The cutting performance outputs considered in this study were surface roughness and cutting speed. It is found experimentally that increasing pulse time, open circuit voltage, wire speed and dielectric fluid pressure increase the surface roughness and cutting speed. The variation of cutting speed and surface roughness with cutting parameters is modeled by using a regression analysis method. Then, for WEDM with multi-cutting performance outputs, an optimization work is performed using this mathematical models. In addition, the importance of the cutting parameters on the cutting performance outputs is determined by using the variance analysis (ANOVA).     

Influence of load on the tribological conditions in piston ring and cylinder liner contacts in a medium-speed diesel engine

The present work is an attempt to determine the oil film thickness in a medium-speed four-stroke diesel engine with a cylinder diameter of 200 mm. Experimental research on this topic was found necessary due to the limited amount of published information available with reference to engines of the present size. The experimental part of the study was carried out as firing engine tests, with an instrumented piston, equipped with telemetric data transmission, and an instrumented cylinder liner in a 6-in-line test engine. The study was carried out for different parts of the four-stroke working cycle and for different levels of engine power output. The results were compared with the results of computer simulations, carried out using a commercial software package. The conclusions of the study comprise aspects on the formation and development of the oil film between the rings and the liner under a set of load levels together with the periodical fluctuation during different strokes of the working cycle.     

Frictional evaluation of thermally sprayed coatings applied on the cylinder liner of a heavy duty diesel engine: Pilot tribometer analysis and full scale engine test

The piston system accounts for roughly half of the mechanical friction of an internal combustion engine, thus it is important to optimize. Different thermally sprayed cylinder liners were investigated in order to optimize the frictional impact of the contact between cylinder liner and piston ring/piston. A novel tribometer test setup was used to scan through different materials at different running conditions. Two cylinder liner materials showed significantly lower friction than the other tested materials, CrC–NiCr and MMC. All the thermally sprayed cylinder liners were worn significantly less than the reference material. Based on these results a full-scale single cylinder test was performed to validate the results from the rig. Comparing the thermally sprayed cylinder liner MMC with reference cylinder liner the test showed higher friction torque for the MMC cylinder liner except in one case; at low speed and high pressure. An analysis of the results between the tribometer and the engine points at the importance of the ratio between viscous and mechanical friction losses. The most probable cause of higher friction torque for the thermally sprayed coating (MMC) is that the functional surface of the cylinder liner promotes an increase in viscous friction.     

基于一体化探针的航空发动机内流 多方向压力测量技术研究

航空发动机内流场多方向压力测量可为航空发动机压缩比计算提供重要的数据支撑。本文针对现有多孔探针结合电类压力测量法存在迟滞且测量精度低的问题;结合多孔探针和光纤传感技术优势,设计了一种适用于航空发动机内流多方向压力测试的一体化探针。分析了一体化探针的多方向压力传导与压力测量原理,采用FLUENT软件对多方向气流传导性能进行分析并优化多孔气流传导结构参数;研制了5孔一体化光纤探针并开展了压力测试实验。结果表明:在0.7～1.6 MPa压力范围内,一体化探针各方向压力传感器的平均灵敏度为-16.267μm/MPa,重复性误差小于2.98%,各传感器压力测量最大误差小于1.72%。     

A study on the characteristivs of heat transfer in an engine piston

The piston temperature distribution with varying engine torque and speeds for a real engine operation has been determined by a numerical model. The model is developed by the finite element conduction method combined with engine simulation. In this model, the two boundary temperature concept instead of one constant boundary temperature was presented to approximate the ambient temperatures along the piston skirt. The two temperatures were first estimated, then adjusted by the iterated proces, for predicting piston temperatures, according to the energy balance of the whole engine energy system. In order to verify the predicted values, input data for cycle simulation were obtained, the piston temperatures were also measured. In this way the good agreement between the model and experimental results could be checked.