Generalized Regression Neural Network (GRNN) for the Prediction of CRDI Engine Responses Fuelled with Pongamia Biodiesel

Author(s):  
Nithyananda BS ◽  

The application of General Regression Neural Network (GRNN) for the prediction of performance and emission responses of Common Rail Direct Injection (CRDI) engine using B5, B10 and B20 blend of pongamia biodiesel is presented in this paper. Data required for the prediction is obtained through experimentation on CRDI engine by varying parameters like injection pressure, injection timing and fuel preheating temperature. The experiments were conducted based on L9 Taguchi Orthogonal Array (OA). The experimental values for performance parameters like brake thermal efficiency, specific fuel consumption and emission parameters like CO, Nox and HC were recorded and used for GRNN. GRNN model is trained with 70% of samples and is validated with testing dataset of 30% by selecting optimum spread parameter (σ). The proposed model was found to be reliable and provides a cost effective way for determining performance parameters of engine. The results presented in this study substantially promote the use of GRNN model for the prediction of parameters in CRDI engine.

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Venkatraman ◽  
G. Devaradjane

In the present investigation, tests were carried out to determine engine performance, combustion and emissions of a naturally aspirated direct injection diesel engine fueled with diesel and Jatropha Methyl ester and their blends (JME10, JME20 and JME30). Comparison of performance and emission was done for different values of compression ratio, injection pressure and injection timing to find best possible combination for operating engine with JME. It is found that the combined compression ratio of 19:1, injection pressure of 240 bar and injection timing of 27?bTDC increases the BTHE and reduces BSFC while having lower emissions.From the investigation, it is concluded that the both performance and emissions can considerably improved for Methyl ester of jatropha oil blended fuel JME20 compared to diesel.


2015 ◽  
Vol 787 ◽  
pp. 717-721
Author(s):  
Sangeetha Krishnamoorthy ◽  
K. Rajan ◽  
K.R. Senthil Kumar ◽  
M. Prabhahar

This paper investigates the performance and emission characteristics of 20% cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL)-diesel blend (B20) in a direct injection diesel engine. The cashew nut shell liquid was prepared by pyrolysis method. The test was conducted with various nozzle opening pressures like 200 bar, 225 bar and 250 bar at different loads between no load to full load. The results showed that the brake thermal efficiency was increased by 2.54% for B20 with 225 bar at full load. The CO and smoke emissions were decreased by 50% and 14% respectively and the NOx emission were decreased slightly with 225 bar injection pressure compared with 200 bar and 250 bar at full load. On the whole, it is concluded that the B20 CNSL blend can be effectively used as a fuel for diesel engine with 225 bar injection pressure without any modifications.


2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akhilendra Pratap Singh ◽  
Avinash Kumar Agarwal

Fuel injection parameters such as fuel injection pressure (FIP) and start of main injection (SoMI) timings significantly affect the performance and emission characteristics of a common rail direct injection (CRDI) diesel engine. In this study, a state-of-the-art single cylinder research engine was used to investigate the effects of fuel injection parameters on combustion, performance, emission characteristics, and particulates and their morphology. The experiments were carried out at three FIPs (400, 700, and 1000 bar) and four SoMI timings (4 deg, 6 deg, 8 deg, and 10 deg bTDC) for biodiesel blends [B20 (20% v/v biodiesel and 80% v/v diesel) and B40 (40% v/v biodiesel and 60% v/v diesel)] compared to baseline mineral diesel. The experiments were performed at a constant engine speed (1500 rpm), without pilot injection and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). The experimental results showed that FIP and SoMI timings affected the in-cylinder pressure and the heat release rate (HRR), significantly. At higher FIPs, the biodiesel blends resulted in slightly higher rate of pressure rise (RoPR) and combustion noise compared to baseline mineral diesel. All the test fuels showed relatively shorter combustion duration at higher FIPs and advanced SoMI timings. The biodiesel blends showed slightly higher NOx and smoke opacity compared to baseline mineral diesel. Lower particulate number concentration at higher FIPs was observed for all the test fuels. However, biodiesel blends showed emission of relatively higher number of particulates compared to baseline mineral diesel. Significantly lower trace metals in the particulates emitted from biodiesel blend fueled engine was an important finding of this study. The particulate morphology showed relatively smaller number of primary particles in particulate clusters from biodiesel exhaust, which resulted in relatively lower toxicity, rendering biodiesel to be more environmentally benign.


Author(s):  
Ratnak Sok ◽  
Jin Kusaka

Abstract Injected gasoline into the O2-depleted environment in the recompression stroke can be converted into light hydrocarbons due to thermal cracking, partial oxidation, and water-gas shift reaction. These reformate species influence the combustion phenomena of gasoline direct injection homogeneous charge compression ignition (GDI-HCCI) engines. In this work, a production-based single-cylinder research engine was boosted to reach IMEPn = 0.55 MPa in which its indicated efficiency peaks at 40–41%. Experimentally, the main combustion phases are advanced under single-pulse direct fuel injection into the negative valve overlap (NVO) compared with that of the intake stroke. NVO peak in-cylinder pressures are lower than that of motoring, which emphasizes that endothermic reaction occurs during the interval. Low O2 concentration could play a role in this evaporative charge cooling effect. This phenomenon limits the oxidation reaction, and the thermal effect is not pronounced. For understanding the recompression reaction phenomena, 0D simulation with three different chemical reaction mechanisms is studied to clarify that influences of direct injection timing in NVO on combustion advancements are kinetically limited by reforming. The 0D results show the same increasing tendencies of classical reformed species of rich-mixture such as C3H6, C2H4, CH4, CO, and H2 as functions of injection timings. By combining these reformed species into the main fuel-air mixture, predicted ignition delays are shortened. The effects of the reformed species on the main combustion are confirmed by 3D-CFD calculation, and the results show that OH radical generation is advanced under NVO fuel injection compared with that of intake stroke conditions thus earlier heat release and cylinder pressure are noticeable. Also, parametric studies on injection pressure and double-pulse injections on engine combustion are performed experimentally.


2013 ◽  
Vol 465-466 ◽  
pp. 448-452
Author(s):  
Mas Fawzi ◽  
Bukhari Manshoor ◽  
Yoshiyuki Kidoguchi ◽  
Yuzuru Nada

Previous work shows that gas-jet ignition with two-stage injection technique is effective to extend lean combustible ranges of CNG engines. In this report, the robustness of the gas-jet ignition with two-stage injection method was investigated purposely to improve the performance of a lean burn direct injection CNG engine. The experiment was conducted using an engine at speed of 900 rpm, fuel-injection-pressure of 3MPa, equivalence ratio at 0.8, and ignition timing at top dead center. The effect of first injection timing on the test engine performance and exhaust emission was analyzed. First injection timings near the gas-jet ignition produced unstable combustion with occurrence of misfires except at a timing which produced distinctively good combustion with low HC and CO emissions. Computational fluid dynamics was used to provide hindsight of the fuel-air mixture distribution that might be the cause of misfires occurrence at certain injection timings.


Author(s):  
Menghan Li ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
Guoxiang Li

In this paper, the effects of the injection timing, the injection pressure and the engine load on the combustion noise of a pilot-ignited direct-injection natural-gas engine were explored by analysing the separate components of the in-cylinder pressure. The results suggested that retarding the injection timing and reducing the injection pressure are effective ways of controlling the combustion noise. This can be attributed to the promoted burning rate at advanced injection timings and to the increased injection pressure. However, the effect of the engine load seems to be less obvious, although the resonance pressure level appears to increase with increasing engine load; the estimated combustion noise shows a decreasing tendency.


2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Prabhakar ◽  
V. N. Banugopan ◽  
K. Annamalai ◽  
P. Sentilkumar ◽  
G. Devaradjane ◽  
...  

The automobile sector which is growing day to day consumes the fossil fuel more than its growth. So there is a demand for exploring new sources of fuels for existing engines. This led to the growth in bio diesels which is an alternate fuel. An alternative fuel must be technically feasible, economically competitive, environmentally acceptable, and readily available. In this project esterified Nerium oil is used as an alternate fuel. A single cylinder stationary kirloskar engine is used to compare the performance and emission characteristics between pure diesel and Nerium blends. In this project selection of suitable nerium blend and selection of optimized injection timing for the blend is done. The Nerium oil blends are in percentage of 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, and 100% of Nerium oil to 80%, 60%, 40%, 20% & 0% of diesel. From this project it is concluded that among all nerium and diesel blends 20% of nerium and 80% of diesel blend at 30º BTDC gives better performance nearing the diesel. When comparing the emission characteristics HC, CO is reduced when compared to diesel, however NOx emission is slightly increased when compared to diesel. Hence Nerium blend can be used in existing diesel engines with minimum modification in the engine. It also describes the usage of non-edible oil to a greater extent.


Author(s):  
Sukhbir Singh Khaira ◽  
Amandeep Singh ◽  
Marcis Jansons

Acoustic noise emitted by a diesel engine generally exceeds that produced by its spark-ignited equivalent and may hinder the acceptance of this more efficient engine type in the passenger car market (1). This work characterizes the combustion noise from a single-cylinder direct-injection diesel engine and examines the degree to which it may be minimized by optimal choice of injection parameters. The relative contribution of motoring, combustion and resonance components to overall engine noise are determined by decomposition of in-cylinder pressure traces over a range of load, injection pressure and start of injection. The frequency spectra of microphone signals recorded external to the engine are correlated with those of in-cylinder pressure traces. Short Time Fourier Transformation (STFT) is applied to cylinder pressure traces to reveal the occurrence of motoring, combustion noise and resonance in the frequency domain over the course of the engine cycle. Loudness is found to increase with enhanced resonance, in proportion to the rate of cylinder pressure rise and under conditions of high injection pressure, load and advanced injection timing.


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