scholarly journals Fuel Pretreatment Systems in Modern CI Engines

Catalysts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 696
Author(s):  
Jacek Eliasz ◽  
Tomasz Osipowicz ◽  
Karol Franciszek Abramek ◽  
Zbigniew Matuszak ◽  
Łukasz Mozga
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Catalytic Reactor ◽  
Combustion Chambers ◽  
Fuel Injectors ◽  
Toxic Emissions ◽  
Catalytic Material ◽  
Free Hydrogen ◽  
Cr System ◽  
Ci Engines

The article concerns the possibility of using a fuel pretreatment system in modern compression ignition CI engines, the main task of which is the reduction of toxic emissions in the form of exhaust gases. This fuel pretreatment system consists of a catalytic reactor used in common rail (CR), and a modified fuel atomizer into spiral‒elliptical channels covered with catalytic material. In the system presented here, platinum was the catalyst. The catalyst’s task is to cause the dehydrogenation reaction of paraffin hydrocarbons contained in the fuel to create an olefin form, with the release of a free hydrogen molecule. In the literature, the methods of using catalysts in the exhaust systems of engines, or in combustion chambers, injection pumps, or fuel injectors, are known. However, the use of a catalytic reactor in the CR system in a high-pressure fuel atomizer rail is an innovative project proposed by the authors. Conditions in the high-pressure CR system are favorable for the catalyst’s operation. In addition, the spiral‒elliptical channels made on the inoperative part of the fuel atomizer needle increase the flow turbulence and contact surface for the catalyst.

scholarly journals Fuel spray vapour distribution correlations for a high pressure diesel fuel spray cases for different injector nozzle geometries.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darlington Njere ◽  
Nwabueze Emekwuru
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Liquid Phase ◽  
Diesel Fuel ◽  
Ambient Pressure ◽  
Vapour Phase ◽  
Fuel Spray ◽  
Combustion Chambers ◽  
Complete Combustion ◽  
Fuel Injectors ◽  
Fuel Vapour

The evolution of diesel fuel injection technology, to facilitate strong correlations of in-cylinder spray propagation with injection conditions and injector geometry, is crucial in facing emission challenges. More observations of spray propagation are, therefore, required to provide valuable information on how to ensure that all the injected fuel has maximum contact with the available air, to promote complete combustion and reduce emissions. In this study, high pressure diesel fuel sprays are injected into a constant-volume chamber at injection and ambient pressure values typical of current diesel engines. For these types of sprays the maximum fuel liquid phase penetration is different and reached sooner than the maximum fuel vapour phase penetration. Thus, the vapour fuel could reach the combustion chamber wall and could be convected and deflected by swirling air. In hot combustion chambers this impingement can be acceptable but this might be less so in larger combustion chambers with cold walls. The fuel-ambient mixture in vapourized fuel spray jets is essential to the efficient performance of these engines. For this work, the fuel vapour penetration values are presented for fuel injectors of different k-factors. The results indicate that the geometry of fuel injectors based on the k-factors appear to affect the vapour phase penetration more than the liquid phase penetration. This is a consequence of the effects of the injector types on the exit velocity of the fuel droplets.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/ILASS2017.2017.4951

The Civic: A Concept in Vortex Induced Combustion for the Solar Gemini 10 kW Gas Turbine

1981 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Shekleton
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Diffusion Flames ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Flame Stabilization ◽  
Fuel Injector ◽  
Combustion Chambers ◽  
Turbine Generator ◽  
Fuel Injectors ◽  
Swirl Flame ◽  
Combustion Processes

The Radial Engine Division of Solar Turbines International, an Operating Group of International Harvester, under contract to the U.S. Army Mobility Equipment Research & Development Command, developed and qualified a 10 kW gas turbine generator set. The very small size of the gas turbine created problems and, in the combustor, novel solutions were necessary. Differing types of fuel injectors, combustion chambers, and flame stabilizing methods were investigated. The arrangement chosen had a rotating cup fuel injector, in a can combustor, with conventional swirl flame stabilization but was devoid of the usual jet stirred recirculation. The use of centrifugal force to control combustion conferred substantial benefit (Rayleigh Instability Criteria). Three types of combustion processes were identified: stratified and unstratified charge (diffusion flames) and pre-mix. Emphasis is placed on five nondimensional groups (Richardson, Bagnold, Damko¨hler, Mach, and Reynolds numbers) for the better control of these combustion processes.

scholarly journals Diagnostics of common rail components based on pressure curves in the fuel rail

2018 ◽  
Vol 173 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Mirosław KARCZEWSKI ◽  
Krzysztof KOLIŃSKI
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Fuel Injection ◽  
Dynamic Pressure ◽  
Common Rail ◽  
Injection System ◽  
Fuel Injector ◽  
Labview Software ◽  
Cr System ◽  
Data Acquisition Module ◽  
Pressure Changes

Majority of modern diesel engines is fitted with common-rail (CR) fuel systems. In these systems, the injectors are supplied with fuel under high pressure from the fuel rail (accumulator). Dynamic changes of pressure in the fuel rail are caused by the phenomena occurring during the fuel injection into the cylinders and the fuel supply to the fuel rail through the high-pressure fuel pump. Any change in this process results in a change in the course of pressure in the fuel rail, which, upon mathematical processing of the fuel pressure signal, allows identification of the malfunction of the pump and the injectors. The paper presents a methodology of diagnosing of CR fuel injection system components based on the analysis of dynamic pressure changes in the fuel rail. In the performed investigations, the authors utilized LabView software and a µDAC data acquisition module recording the fuel pressure in the rail, the fuel injector control current and the signal from the camshaft position sensor. For the analysis of the obtained results, ‘FFT’ and ‘STFT’ were developed in order to detect inoperative injectors based on the curves of pressure in the fuel rail. The performed validation tests have confirmed the possibility of identification of malfunctions in the CR system based on the pressure curves in the fuel rail. The ‘FFT’ method provides more information related to the system itself and accurately shows the structure of the signal, while the ’STFT’ method presents the signal in such a way as to clearly identify the occurrence of the fuel injection. The advantage of the above methods is the accessibility to diagnostic parameters and their non-invasive nature.

A MultiPhase Dynamic-VoF solver to model primary jet atomization and cavitation inside high-pressure fuel injectors in OpenFOAM

2019 ◽  
Vol 158 ◽  
pp. 375-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Piscaglia ◽  
F. Giussani ◽  
A. Montorfano ◽  
J. Hélie ◽  
S.M. Aithal
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Fuel Injectors

The full impulse response of two-dimensional jet/wake flows and implications for confinement

2007 ◽  
Vol 590 ◽  
pp. 163-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTHEW P. JUNIPER
Keyword(s):  
Impulse Response ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Strong Mixing ◽  
Combustion Chambers ◽  
Fuel Injectors ◽  
Wake Flows ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
High Reynolds ◽  
Density Ratios

In this theoretical study, a linear spatio-temporal analysis is performed on unconfined and confined inviscid jet/wake flows in order to determine whether they are absolutely or convectively unstable. The impulse response is evaluated in the entire outer fluid, rather than just at the point of impulse, over a wide range of density ratios. This confirms that the dominant saddle point can validly migrate into the plane of diverging eigenfunctions. This reveals that, at certain density ratios and shear numbers, the response can grow upstream in some directions with a cross-stream component, even though it decays directly upstream of, and at, the point of impulse. This type of flow is convectively unstable when unconfined, but becomes absolutely unstable when confined. Other effects of confinement are described in a previous paper. Together, these articles have important implications for the design of fuel injectors, which often employ confined shear flows at high Reynolds number and large density ratios to generate strong mixing in combustion chambers.

Spray Dynamics of High Pressure Fuel Injectors for DI Gasoline Engines

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fu-Quan Zhao ◽  
Joon-Ho Yoo ◽  
Yi Liu ◽  
Ming-Chia Lai
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Fuel Injectors ◽  
Gasoline Engines
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