scholarly journals A computational study and experiments to investigate the combustion and emission characteristics of a small naturally aspirated diesel engine through changes in combustion chamber geometry, injection parameters and EGR

Author(s):  
Pradeep Menon ◽  
Tushar Kamble ◽  
Mayank Mittal
2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 2806-2813
Author(s):  
Pappula Bridjesh ◽  
Pitchaipillai Periyasamy ◽  
Narayanan Kannaiyan Geetha

This experimental investigation is an endeavour to substitute diesel with WPO as fuel on a diesel engine. Enhancing the physiochemical properties of WPO or with hardware modifications on the engine, the performance of engine could not be improved up to the mark. The physiochemical properties of WPO are enhanced by the use of composite additive, which is a mixture of soy lecithin and 2-ethylhexyl nitrate and to improve the in-cylinder air motion; subsequently to increase the swirl and turbulence, standard hemispherical combustion chamber is modified to toroidal spherical grooves combustion chamber. The results of combined effect of modifying the combustion chamber and addition of composite additive suggest that improvements in engine-out emissions can be obtained from current diesel engines by enhancing physiochemical properties of fuel and matching geometry of combustion chamber. Engine combustion and emission characteristics under various loads for various fuels under test are as well studied.


2011 ◽  
Vol 199-200 ◽  
pp. 193-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Cheng Zhang ◽  
Qian Wang ◽  
Zhi Xia He ◽  
Ping Jiang

In order to investigate the influence of combustion chamber geometry on spray and combustion characteristics in diesel engine, universal CFD software STAR-CD is applied to simulate the combustion processes in three different types of combustion chambers of diesel engine. The effect of combustion chamber geometry on in–cylinder air motion, temperature field and exhaust emissions are researched in this paper. Comparing with experimental results, calculation models are proved to be validity. The results show that differences of combustion chamber shape change the characteristic of flow field in cylinder, which affects the formation of mixed gas and determines the combustion and emission characteristics.


2014 ◽  
Vol 984-985 ◽  
pp. 900-906
Author(s):  
L. Saravanakumar ◽  
B.R. Ramesh Bapu ◽  
B. Durga Prasad

The present work investigates the effect of change in combustion chamber geometry on performance and emission characteristics of single cylinder diesel engine fuelled with mahua biodiesel. Since plant oil derived from the mahua tree has high fatty acids, it undergoes esterification followed by transesterification process to reduce its viscosity. Experiments were conducted using a blend of 20% biodiesel (B20) 40% biodiesel (B40) with diesel and compared with diesel by using two types of combustion chamber geometry, explicitly hemispherical and modified hemispherical combustion chamber. Performance parameters such as Brake Thermal Efficiency (BTE), Brake Specific Fuel Consumption (BSFC) and emission parameters like Unburned Hydro Carbon (UBHC), Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx) were studied from the diesel engine with above mentioned configurations. It is obvious that there is considerable improvement in the performance parameter viz, BTE, BSFC and reduction in UBHC emissions by using the modified geometry piston. However, the NOx emission was found to be higher than that of standard configuration. The results obtained from the blend B20 at modified combustion chamber geometry are on par with diesel and hence mahua biodiesel can be suggested as an alternative fuel for Compression Ignition (C.I) engine with modified combustion chamber geometry.


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