Controlled SSCI With Moderate End-Gas Auto-Ignition for Fuel Economy Improvement and Knock Suppression

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Liu ◽  
Zhi Wang ◽  
Jianxin Wang ◽  
Mengke Wang ◽  
Wanli Yang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Release ◽  
Compression Ratio ◽  
Fuel Economy ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
High Compression Ratio ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Auto Ignition ◽  
Engine Knock ◽  
Gdi Engine

Hybrid combustion mode including flame propagation induced by spark ignition (SI) and auto-ignition could be an effective method to improve fuel economy and suppress engine knock simultaneously. An experimental research on controlled spark-assisted stratified compression ignition (SSCI) for this purpose was conducted in a gasoline direct injection (GDI) engine with high compression ratio. At wide open throttle (WOT) and minimum spark advance for best torque (MBT) condition without turbocharging, direct injection was used to form desired stoichiometric stratified mixture while 20% cooled external exhaust gas recirculation (e-EGR) was sucked into the cylinder. The combustion characteristics of controlled SSCI show two-stage heat release, where the first stage is caused by SI and the second stage is due to moderate auto-ignition. Compared with engine knock, the second stage heat release of controlled SSCI shows smooth pressure curve without pressure oscillation. This is due to the low energy density mixture around the cylinder wall caused by cooled e-EGR. The stratified mixture could suppress knock. Fuel economy and combustion characteristics of the baseline and the controlled SSCI combustion were compared. The baseline GDI engine reaches a maximum of 8.9 bar brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) with brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) of 291 g/(kWh), and the controlled SSCI combustion achieves a maximum of 8.3 bar BMEP with BSFC of 256 g/(kWh), improving the fuel economy over 12% while maintaining approximately the same power. The results show that controlled SSCI with two-stage heat releases is a potential combustion strategy to suppress engine knock while achieving high efficiency of the high compression ratio gasoline engine.

Controlled ASSCI With Moderate Auto-Ignition for Engine Knock Suppression in a GDI Engine With High Compression Ratio

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Liu ◽  
Zhi Wang ◽  
Jianxin Wang ◽  
Mengke Wang ◽  
Wanli Yang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Release ◽  
Compression Ratio ◽  
High Compression Ratio ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
High Compression ◽  
Auto Ignition ◽  
Crank Angle ◽  
Engine Knock ◽  
Gdi Engine

This paper presents an experimental study on controlled ASSCI (Assisted Spark Stratified Compression Ignition) for engine knock suppression in a GDI engine with high compression ratio. The direct injection is used for forming desired stoichiometric stratified mixture at WOT condition without turbo-charging. The engine is filled with 20% cooled external EGR and the ignition timing is maintained at MBT point. The combustion characteristics of the desired stoichiometric stratified mixture show two-stage heat release, where the first stage is caused by spark ignition and the second stage is due to moderate auto-ignition. Compared with engine knock, the second stage heat release of controlled ASSCI shows smooth pressure curve without pressure oscillation. This is due to the low energy density mixture around the cylinder wall caused by cooled external EGR. The stratified mixture could suppress knock. Fuel economy and combustion characteristics of the baseline and the controlled ASSCI combustion were compared. The baseline GDI engine reaches a maximum of 8.9 bar BMEP with BSFC of 291 g/(kWh), the controlled ASSCI combustion achieves a maximum of 8.3 bar BMEP with BSFC of 256 g/(kWh), improving the fuel economy over 12% while maintaining approximately the same power. CA50 (the crank angle of 50% heat release) of the controlled ASSCI is detected at 8.4° CA ATDC, which is 17.4° CA advanced than that of the baseline while the combustion duration of the controlled ASSCI is 52.84dG CA, 16.6° CA longer than that of the baseline caused by diluted mixture and two-stage heat release. The COV of the controlled ASSCI is 1.4%, 2.1% lower than that of the baseline. The peak pressure (Pmax) and the maximum pressure rise rate (PRRmax) of the controlled ASSCI are 59.7 bar and 2.2 bar/° CA, 22.9 bar and 1.5 bar/° CA higher than that of the baseline respectively. The crank angle of Pmax and PRRmax of the controlled ASSCI are 11° CA ATDC and −1° CA ATDC, 15.4° CA and 17.2° CA earlier than that of the baseline. The results show that controlled ASSCI with two-stage heat releases is a potential combustion strategy to suppress engine knock while achieving high efficiency of the high compression ratio gasoline engine.

Study of water direct injection on knock control and combustion process of a high compression ratio GDI engine

Fuel ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 306 ◽  
pp. 121631
Author(s):  
Qirui Zhang ◽  
Yiqiang Pei ◽  
Yanzhao An ◽  
Zhong Peng ◽  
Jing Qin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Compression Ratio ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
High Compression Ratio ◽  
High Compression ◽  
Gdi Engine ◽  
Knock Control

scholarly journals Experimental study on the effects of the Miller cycle on the performance and emissions of a downsized turbocharged gasoline direct injection engine

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 168781402091872
Author(s):  
Zhao-Ming Huang ◽  
Kai Shen ◽  
Li Wang ◽  
Wei-Guo Chen ◽  
Jin-Yuan Pan
Keyword(s):  
Compression Ratio ◽  
Fuel Economy ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Gasoline Direct Injection ◽  
Miller Cycle ◽  
Power Performance ◽  
Direct Injection Engine ◽  
Performance And Emission ◽  
Gasoline Direct Injection Engine ◽  
Partial Load

The Miller cycle has been proven to be an effective way to improve the thermal efficiency for gasoline engines. However, it may show insufficient power performance at certain loads. In this study, the objective is to exploit the advantages of the Miller-cycle engines over the original Otto-cycle engines. Therefore, a new camshaft profile with early intake valve closure was devised, and two various pistons were redesigned to obtain higher compression ratio 11.2 and 12.1, based on the original engine with compression ratio 10. Then, a detailed comparative investigation of the effects of Miller cycle combined with higher compression ratio on the performance and emission of a turbocharged gasoline direct injection engine has been experimentally carried out based on the engine bench at full and partial loads, compared to the original engine. The results show that, at full load, for a turbocharged gasoline direct injection engine utilizing the Miller cycle, partial maximum power is compromised about 1.5% while fuel consumption shows a strong correlation with engine speed. At partial load, since the Miller effect can well reduce the pumping mean effective pressure, thus improves the fuel economy effectively. In addition, the suppression of the in-cylinder combustion temperature induced by the lower effective compression ratio contributes to the reduction of nitrogen oxide emission greatly. However, the total hydrocarbon emission increases slightly. Therefore, a combination of the Miller cycle and highly boosted turbocharger shows great potential in further improvement of fuel economy and anti-knock performance for downsized gasoline direct injection engines.

scholarly journals Control and optimization of spark ignition–controlled auto-ignition hybrid combustion based on stratified flame ignition

2018 ◽  
Vol 233 (12) ◽  
pp. 3057-3073 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Chen ◽  
Xinyan Wang ◽  
Hua Zhao ◽  
Hui Xie ◽  
Bangquan He
Keyword(s):  
Heat Release ◽  
Flame Propagation ◽  
Thermal Efficiency ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
Spark Ignition ◽  
Release Process ◽  
Auto Ignition ◽  
Flame Ignition ◽  
Injection Ratio

Spark ignition–controlled auto-ignition hybrid combustion, also known as spark assisted compression ignition, is of considerable interest in gasoline engines because of its potential to enlarge the operating range of gasoline diluted combustion. However, it was found that the spark ignition–controlled auto-ignition hybrid combustion process was often characterized with large cycle-to-cycle variations. In this research, a new approach by combining the traditional second-order derivative method and Wiebe function fitting method was proposed to identify different heat release stages of spark ignition–controlled auto-ignition hybrid combustion. The heat release characteristics of the spark ignition–controlled auto-ignition hybrid combustion based on stratified flame ignition strategy and its control methods were investigated in detail. The effect of control parameters, including spark timing, direct injection ratio and dilution strategy, on improving the thermal efficiency and decreasing the variation of heat release trace in spark ignition–controlled auto-ignition hybrid combustion based on stratified flame ignition strategy was analysed. The advance of flame propagation ending point and the increase in the average heat release rate in flame propagation stage benefitted the fuel economy and reduced the variations of heat release in spark ignition–controlled auto-ignition hybrid combustion. Although the increase in direct injection ratio contributed to the stability of heat release in the spark ignition–controlled auto-ignition hybrid combustion based on the stratified flame ignition strategy, the thermal efficiency of spark ignition–controlled auto-ignition hybrid combustion cannot be effectively optimized due to the decrease in combustion efficiency. The application of exhaust gas recirculation and air dilution could decrease the variations of heat release process and increase the thermal efficiency of spark ignition–controlled auto-ignition hybrid combustion based on stratified flame ignition strategy.

Experimental investigation on a two-stage CO2 compressor with high back pressure

2011 ◽  
Vol 226 (7) ◽  
pp. 1811-1820
Author(s):  
Zhaogang Qi ◽  
Jun Yang ◽  
Jiangping Chen ◽  
Haifeng Zhang ◽  
Li Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Compression Ratio ◽  
Piston Compressor ◽  
Back Pressure ◽  
Volumetric Efficiency ◽  
Mean Deviation ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Rolling Piston ◽  
Discharge Pressure

In this article, two samples of two-stage rolling piston CO2 compressors with and without intercooler are developed and experimentally studied. These CO2 compressors are high back-pressure compressors, which mean the pressure inside compressor shell is the discharge pressure of the second stage. A test rig was designed to measure the performance and efficiency of this compressor. The test results show that the suction vapor temperature at the second stage inlet pipe has few influences on the performance and efficiency of the first compressor sample with intercooler. The volumetric efficiency linearly decreases with the increase of compression ratio of the suction and discharge pressure, and the volumetric efficiency can maintain in a relative constant range during a wide compression ratio changes in this high back-pressure design. There exists an optimum compression ratio for each suction pressure at the first stage, where the compressor isentropic efficiency is maximum. A generalized volumetric efficiency correlation for two-stage CO2 rolling piston compressor as a function of compression ratio is proposed and it can describe 100% of the test data within ±5.0% with a mean deviation of 1.7%. This would be helpful as a guide for designing such type compressor.

Effect of Mahua Biodiesel Blends on the Combustion Characteristics of Direct Injection CI Engine at Various Compression Ratios

2015 ◽  
Vol 813-814 ◽  
pp. 824-829
Author(s):  
Ramani Vagesh Shangar ◽  
Venkatesan Hariram
Keyword(s):  
Heat Release ◽  
Compression Ratio ◽  
Ignition Delay ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Combustion Characteristics ◽  
Cylinder Pressure ◽  
Biodiesel Blends ◽  
Peak Cylinder Pressure ◽  
Ci Engine ◽  
Mahua Biodiesel

In the current study, combustion characteristics were evaluated using mahua biodiesel blends at different compression ratios on a direct injection CI engine. Non edible mahua oil was transesterified into biodiesel by two stage technique. Combustion parameters were evaluated for B5, B10 and B20 blends of mahua biodiesel with diesel and they were compared with straight diesel at compression ratios of 16, 17 and 18.Compression ratio was varied without altering the combustion chamber geometry and the static spill timing was set to 23° bTDC. Parameters like In cylinder pressure, heat release rate, rate of pressure rise and cumulative heat release were evaluated in this study at 100% engine loading conditions. Higher peak cylinder pressure and heat release was observed at higher compression ratios. The ignition delay of the blends were slightly higher compared to diesel at all CR tested. Peak cylinder pressure of the blends was slightly higher at CR 18. The ignition delay was also observed to be lower at higher compression ratio. The peak pressure was observed closer to TDC at higher compression ratios for all fuels tested.

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