Download or read book Fuel Effects on Diesel Combustion Processes written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crank angle locations for the first occurrences of several main combustion events in a Diesel engine were investigated for varied fuel parameters. The events studied include: preflame reactions; premixed flame propagation; start of pressure rise; maximum rate of pressure rise (dp/dt); and peak cylinder pressure. The fuels employed in the study were in two groups: (1) Base fuel-1 and derivatives prepared by mixing it with small doses of a cetane number (CN) enhancing additive; and (2) Base fuel-2 and those made by adding different amounts of bio-Diesel fuel. The experiment was performed by using a single-cylinder direct-injection (DI) Diesel engine equipped with an electronically controlled high-pressure fuel injection unit. The in-cylinder processes during the periods of ignition delay and combustion reaction were measured by using a high-speed multispectral infrared (IR) imaging system developed at Rutgers University. The other events were found from the pressure-time history. The purpose of using these fuels was to investigate: additive effects on the (invisible) preflame reaction and visible premixed flame development; flame behaviors of bio-Diesel fuels; CN effects on in-cylinder reactions; and others. There is some evidence that the formation of the visible flame kernels may not be directly related to the preflame reactions when the additive is used to increase CN. The reactions during the ignition delay of bio-Diesel fuels were rather unpredictable, therefore requiring additional investigation. Among the most indicative timelines for determining a fuel's CN were those of: the maximum dp/dt; the start of pressure rise; the first premixed flame; and the peak pressure. The timeline of maximum dp/dt seems to be most insensitive to the variation of injection timing. Some new findings are also reported in the paper.
Download or read book Diesel Combustion Processes written by Society of Automotive Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Combustion Science written by Tsuneo Someya and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-uniform combustion, as encountered in diesel and gas turbine engines, furnaces, and boilers, is responsible for the conversion of fossil fuel to energy and also for the corresponding formation of pollutants. In spite of great research efforts in the past, the mechanism of non-uniform combustion has remained less explored than that of other combustion types, since it consists of many, mostly transient processes which influence each other. In view of this background, a group research project, "Exploration of Combustion Mechanism", was established to explore the mechanism of combustion, especially that of diffusive combustion, and also to find efficient ways to control the combustion process for better utilization of fuel and the reduction of pollutant emission. The group research was started, after preparatory activity of 2 years, in April 1988, for a period of 3 years, as a project with a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of Priority Area subsidized by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan. The entire group of 43 members was set up as an organizing committee of 13 members, and five research groups, consisting of 36 members. The research groups were: (1) Steady combustion, (2) Unsteady spray combustion, (3) Control of combustion, (4) Chemistry of combustion, and (5) Effects of fuels. At the beginning of the project it was agreed that we should pursue the mechanism of combustion from a scientific viewpoint, namely, the target of the project was to obtain the fundamentals, or "know why", rather than "know how" of combustion.
Download or read book Practical Diesel Engine Combusion Analysis written by Bertrand Hsu and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2002-10-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diesel engine is one of the most efficient types of heat engines and is widely used as a prime mover for many applications. In recent years, with the aid of modern computers, engine combustion modeling has made great progress. However, due to the complexities of the processes involved in the practical diesel engine, there are still too many unknowns preventing computational prediction to have the accuracy level required by industry. This book examines some basic characteristics of diesel engine combustion process, and describes the commonly used tool to analyze combustion - heat release analysis. It addition, Practical Diesel-Engine Combustion Analysis describes the performance changes that might be encountered in the engine user environment, with a goal of helping the reader analyze his own practical combustion problems. Chapters include: Combustion and Fuel-Injection Processes in the Diesel Engine Heat Release and its Effect on Engine Performance Alternate Fuels Combustion Analysis and more
Download or read book Modelling Diesel Combustion written by P. A. Lakshminarayanan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phenomenology of Diesel Combustion and Modeling Diesel is the most efficient combustion engine today and it plays an important role in transport of goods and passengers on land and on high seas. The emissions must be controlled as stipulated by the society without sacrificing the legendary fuel economy of the diesel engines. These important drivers caused innovations in diesel engineering like re-entrant combustion chambers in the piston, lower swirl support and high pressure injection, in turn reducing the ignition delay and hence the nitric oxides. The limits on emissions are being continually reduced. The- fore, the required accuracy of the models to predict the emissions and efficiency of the engines is high. The phenomenological combustion models based on physical and chemical description of the processes in the engine are practical to describe diesel engine combustion and to carry out parametric studies. This is because the injection process, which can be relatively well predicted, has the dominant effect on mixture formation and subsequent course of combustion. The need for improving these models by incorporating new developments in engine designs is explained in Chapter 2. With “model based control programs” used in the Electronic Control Units of the engines, phenomenological models are assuming more importance now because the detailed CFD based models are too slow to be handled by the Electronic Control Units. Experimental work is necessary to develop the basic understanding of the pr- esses.
Download or read book Flow and Combustion in Reciprocating Engines written by C. Arcoumanis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimization of combustion processes in automotive engines is a key factor in reducing fuel consumption. This book, written by eminent university and industry researchers, investigates and describes flow and combustion processes in diesel and gasoline engines.
Download or read book Effects of Fuel Properties on the Combustion Process of an Advanced Diesel Engine written by Cedric Zacarias Ramos Silva and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Direct Injection Combustion Engine Technologies and Development written by H Zhao and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Direct injection enables precise control of the fuel/air mixture so that engines can be tuned for improved power and fuel economy, but ongoing research challenges remain in improving the technology for commercial applications. As fuel prices escalate DI engines are expected to gain in popularity for automotive applications. This important book, in two volumes, reviews the science and technology of different types of DI combustion engines and their fuels. Volume 1 deals with direct injection gasoline and CNG engines, including history and essential principles, approaches to improved fuel economy, design, optimisation, optical techniques and their applications. Reviews key technologies for enhancing direct injection (DI) gasoline engines Examines approaches to improved fuel economy and lower emissions Discusses DI compressed natural gas (CNG) engines and biofuels
Download or read book Diesel and Gasoline Engine Exhausts and Some Nitroarenes written by IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans and published by IARC Monographs on the Evaluat. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the IARC Monographs provides evaluations of the carcinogenicity of diesel and gasoline engine exhausts, and of 10 nitroarenes found in diesel engine exhaust: 3,7-dinitrofluoranthene, 3,9-dinitrofluoranthene, 1,3-dinitropyrene, 1,6-dinitropyrene, 1,8-dinitropyrene, 6-nitrochrysene, 2-nitrofluorene, 1-nitropyrene, 4-nitropyrene, and 3-nitrobenzanthrone. Diesel engines are used for transport on and off roads (e.g. passenger cars, buses, trucks, trains, ships), for machinery in various industrial sectors (e.g. mining, construction), and for electricity generators, particularly in developing countries. Gasoline engines are used in cars and hand-held equipment (e.g. chainsaws). The emissions from such combustion engines comprise a complex and varying mixture of gases (e.g. carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides), particles (e.g. PM10, PM2.5, ultrafine particles, elemental carbon, organic carbon, ash, sulfate, and metals), volatile organic compunds (e.g. benzene, formaldehyde) and semi-volatile organic compounds (e.g. polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) including oxygenated and nitrated derivatives of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Diesel and gasoline engines thus make a significant contribution to a broad range of air pollutants to which people are exposed in the general population as well as in different occupational settings. An IARC Monographs Working Group reviewed epidemiological evidence, animal bioassays, and mechanistic and other relevant data to reach conclusions as to the carcinogenic hazard to humans of environmental or occupational exposure to diesel and gasoline engine exhausts (including those associated with the mining, railroad, construction, and transportation industries) and to 10 selected nitroarenes. -- Back cover.
Download or read book Assessment of Fuel Economy Technologies for Light Duty Vehicles written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various combinations of commercially available technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, minivans, and other light-duty vehicles without compromising vehicle performance or safety. Assessment of Technologies for Improving Light Duty Vehicle Fuel Economy estimates the potential fuel savings and costs to consumers of available technology combinations for three types of engines: spark-ignition gasoline, compression-ignition diesel, and hybrid. According to its estimates, adopting the full combination of improved technologies in medium and large cars and pickup trucks with spark-ignition engines could reduce fuel consumption by 29 percent at an additional cost of $2,200 to the consumer. Replacing spark-ignition engines with diesel engines and components would yield fuel savings of about 37 percent at an added cost of approximately $5,900 per vehicle, and replacing spark-ignition engines with hybrid engines and components would reduce fuel consumption by 43 percent at an increase of $6,000 per vehicle. The book focuses on fuel consumption-the amount of fuel consumed in a given driving distance-because energy savings are directly related to the amount of fuel used. In contrast, fuel economy measures how far a vehicle will travel with a gallon of fuel. Because fuel consumption data indicate money saved on fuel purchases and reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, the book finds that vehicle stickers should provide consumers with fuel consumption data in addition to fuel economy information.
Download or read book Application of Clean Fuels in Combustion Engines written by Gabriele Di Blasio and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the impact of fuels characteristics and their effects on the combustion processes in internal combustion engines. It includes the analysis of a variety of biofuels (alcohol fuels and biodiesel) and biogases (natural gas, hydrogen, etc.), providing valuable information related to consequent effects on performance and emissions. The contents focus on recent results and current trends of fuel utilization in the transport sector. State-of-the-art of clean fuels application are also discussed. Thighs book will be of interest to those in academia and industry involved in fuels, IC engines, engine instrumentation, and environmental research.
Download or read book The Effect and Mechanisms of a Homogeneous Combustion Catalyst in the Reduction of Emissions from Diesel Combustion in Compression Ignition Engines written by You Ma and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ferrous picrate based homogeneous combustion catalyst has shown significant effectiveness in improving the fuel economies in compression ignition (diesel) engines. However, there has been a lack of knowledge of the effect and the working mechanisms of the catalyst in reducing the pollutant emissions, which has hindered the widespread application of the catalytic technology in diesel engines. The present research aimed to systematically assess the efficacy of the ferrous picrate catalyst in emission reductions from diesel engines and to further the understanding of the mechanisms behind the catalytic effect in diesel combustion processes. More specifically, this thesis work has successfully addressed the following specific research objectives: To confirm and quantify the effect of the catalyst in improving fuel consumptions and reducing pollutant emissions (UHC, CO, NOx and smoke) from a diesel engine fuelled with diesel and biodiesel; To investigate the effect of the catalyst on the key characteristics of soot particles from diesel engine combustions, including soot oxidation properties, soot nanostructure and particle size, soot chemical and elemental compositions; To ascertain the morphology and the ultimate fate of iron in the catalyst during diesel combustion process; and To reveal the mechanisms of the working of the catalyst in diesel soot formation during the combustion processes. To assess the effectiveness of the catalyst, a series of tests was performed on a laboratory diesel engine and a large-scale diesel engine facility as a function of engine speed, load and catalyst dosage. The beneficial effects were also examined with the engine fuelled with biodiesel fuel to realise the full potential of the catalyst. The tests consistently demonstrated a fuel saving of 1.1% - 3.8% over the range of conditions examined. The mechanisms of the catalyst in diesel engine combustions were studied by determining the differences in the characteristics of soot particles using a combination of several advanced analytical techniques, including TGA, SEM/TEM-EDS, FT-IR, NMR and elemental analyser. The evolution of iron in the catalyst during diesel combustion was also investigated to provide additional evidence for the understanding of the role of the catalyst in diesel combustion processes. Laboratory diesel engine tests with diesel fuel have showed the addition of the catalyst was able to reduce up to 39.5% smoke, 22.5% CO and 15.3% unburned hydrocarbons (UHC), as well as 3.8% specific fuel consumptions. As a consequence of the improved combustion efficiency, NOx was found to be elevated by up to 8.3% under the experimental conditions. Results from large-scale diesel engine tests showed that the use of the catalyst reduced up to 20.7% CO and 22.8% UHC at the cost of 5.3% increase in NOx. In biodiesel combustion, the smoke, CO and UHC emissions were reduced by up to 24.4%, 17.3% and 3.8% with the fuel consumptions saved by up to 2.8%, by the addition of the catalyst. It was also found that the NOx and CO2 from the biodiesel combustion were increased by up to 4.5% and 2.5% due to the enhanced combustion efficiency associated with the use of the catalyst...
Download or read book Simulation of the Diesel Engine Combustion Process Using the Stochastic Reactor Model written by Michal Pasternak and published by Logos Verlag Berlin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work is concerned with the simulation of combustion, emission formation and fuel effects in Diesel engines. The simulation process is built around a zero-dimensional (0D) direct injection stochastic reactor model (DI-SRM), which is based on a probability density function (PDF) approach. An emphasis is put on the modelling of mixing time to improve the representation of turbulence-chemistry interactions in the 0D DI-SRM. The mixing time model describes the intensity of mixing in the gas-phase for scalars such as enthalpy and species mass fraction. On a crank angle basis, it governs the composition of the gas mixture that is described by PDF distributions for the scalars. The derivation of the mixing time is based on an extended heat release analysis that has been fully automated using a genetic algorithm. The predictive nature of simulations is achieved through the parametrisation of the mixing time model with known engine operating parameters such as speed, load and fuel injection strategy. It is shown that crank angle dependency of the mixing time improves the modelling of local inhomogeneity in the gas-phase for species mass fraction and temperature. In combination with an exact treatment of the non-linearity of reaction kinetics, it enables an accurate prediction of the rate of heat release, in-cylinder pressure and exhaust emissions, such as nitrogen oxides, unburned hydrocarbons and soot, from differently composed fuels. The method developed is particularly tailored for computationally efficient applications that focus on the details of reaction kinetics and the locality of combustion and emission formation in Diesel engines.
Download or read book The Influence of Fuel Characteristics on Diesel Engine Combustion and Performance by David Randall Kent Jr written by David Randall Kent and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Green Diesel Engines written by Breda Kegl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on ecology, economy and engine performance, diesel engines are explored in relation to current research and developments. The prevalent trends in this development are outlined with particular focus on the most frequently used alternative fuels in diesel engines; the properties of various type of biodiesel and the concurrent improvement of diesel engine characteristics using numeric optimization alongside current investigation and research work in the field. Following of a short overview of engine control, aftertreatment and alternative fuels, Green Diesel Engine explores the effects of biodiesel usage on injection, fuel spray, combustion, and tribology characteristics, and engine performance. Additionally, optimization procedures of diesel engine characteristics are discussed using practical examples and each topic is corroborated and supported by current research and detailed illustrations. This thorough discussion provides a solid foundation in the current research but also a starting point for fresh ideas for engineers involved in developing/adjusting diesel engines for usage of alternative fuels, researchers in renewable energy, as well as to engineers, advanced undergraduates, and postgraduates.
Download or read book Thermo and Fluid dynamic Processes in Diesel Engines written by James H.W. Whitelaw and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-01-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes versions of papers selected from those presented at the THIESEL 2000 Conference on Thermofluidynamic Processes in Diesel Engines, held at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, during the period of September th th 13 to 15 , 2000. The papers are grouped into seven thematic areas: State of the Art and Prospective, Fuels for Diesel Engines, Injection System and Spray Formation, Combustion and Pollutant Formation, Modelling, Experimental Techniques, and Air Management. These areas cover most of the technologies and research strategies that may allow Light Duty and Heavy Duty Diesel engines to comply with current and forthcoming emission standards, while maintaining or improving fuel consumption. The main objectives of the conference were to bring together ideas and experience from Industry and Universities to facilitate interchange of information and to promote discussion of future research and development needs. The technical papers emphasised the use diagnostic and simulation techniques and their relationship to engineering practice and the advancement of the Diesel engine. We hope that this approach, which proved to be successful at the Conference, is reflected in this volume. We thank all those who contributed to the success of the Conference, and particularly the members of the Advisory Committee who assessed abstracts and chaired many of the technical sessions. Weare also grateful to participants who presented their work or contributed to the many discussions. Finally, the Conference benefitted from financial support from the organisations listed below and we are glad to have this opportunity to record our gratitude.
Download or read book Combustion Emission Formation Process in Diesel Engines written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
