scholarly journals Performance Analysis of Direct Injection Diesel Engine Fueled with Diesel-Tomato Seed Oil Biodiesel Blending by ANOVA and ANN

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 4421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karami ◽  
Rasul ◽  
Khan ◽  
Anwar

Biodiesel is an alternative fuel for diesel engine. Considering the differences between diesel and biodiesel fuels, the engine condition should be modified based on the fuel or fuel blends to achieve optimum performance. This study presented a performance analysis of a direct-injected (DI) diesel engine with a dynamometer fueled with diesel-tomato seed biodiesel (TSOB) blends employing ANOVA and universal nonlinear model based on ANN. The experiments were carried out under conditions of some independent variables including different engine loads (0, 50, 100%) and speed (1800, 2150, and 2500 rpm) for four diesel-biodiesel combinations (B0, B5, B10, and B20). In this research, the effect of these factors on dependent variables including power, torque, SFC, FC, and Exhaust Gas Temperature (EGT) are investigated. Duncan′s multi-domain test at a significance level of R < 0.01 shows that the highest and lowest of the torque and power are produced from B5 and B20, respectively. These results show that the lowest EGT of 613 K is related to B20 and the highest EGT is related to B5 and B10. The regression models showed that the torque decreases with increasing the engine speed and biodiesel percentage. These results also show that the highest and the lowest SFC is related to B0 and B20, respectively. The ANN model shows high capability of predicting the engine performance parameters and emissions, without running costly and time-consuming experiments with the histogram error of 0.004 and R = 0.96. It also proved that ANN is a non-linear model of choice to deal with these data, instead of multivariate linear regression employed for preliminary analysis.

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Patterson ◽  
M. G. Hassan ◽  
A. Clarke ◽  
G. Shama ◽  
K. Hellgardt ◽  
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Author(s):  
R. Anand ◽  
N. V. Mahalakshmi

Exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) combined with particulate trap technology has proven to reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and smoke emissions simultaneously at relatively low cost compared to other reduction strategies. An experimental study was conducted on a single cylinder, direct injection (DI) diesel engine to study the effect of EGR on engine performance and emissions under constant speed of 1500 rpm at various loads. In the present work hot and cool EGR were used to control the formation of NOx in a D.I diesel engine. The findings of both hot and cool EGR are discussed and compared at full load condition corresponding to the maximum allowable EGR proportion of 15%. It is found that cool EGR has a substantial reduction in NOx and smoke emissions compared to hot EGR. Based on the above result it is found that suitable particulate trap which is cost effective and high trapping efficiency is needed before the EGR cooler to reduce the smoke emissions to meet the emission standards. In the present study a substrate made of clay material was used in the particulate trap. They were made into spheres and coated with copper and zinc oxide catalyst material. The results have shown that EGR combined with particulate trap simultaneously reduces the NOx and smoke emissions by 63% and 42% respectively where as it increases brake specific fuel consumption by 10% compared to baseline mode.


2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed A. Bassiony ◽  
Abdellatif M. Sadiq ◽  
Mohammed T. Gergawy ◽  
Samer F. Ahmed ◽  
Saud A. Ghani

New induction manifold designs have been developed in this work to enhance the turbulence intensity and improve the mixing quality inside diesel engine cylinders. These new designs employ a spiral-helical shape with three different helical diameters (1D, 2D, 3D; where D is the inner diameter of the manifold) and three port outlet angles: 0 deg, 30 deg, and 60 deg. The new manifolds have been manufactured using three-dimensional printing technique. Computational fluid dynamics simulations have been conducted to estimate the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and the induction swirl generated by these new designs. The combustion characteristics that include the maximum pressure raise rate (dP/dθ) and the peak pressure inside the cylinder have been measured for a direct injection (DI) diesel engine utilizing these new manifold designs. In addition, engine performance and emissions have also been evaluated and compared with those of the normal manifold of the engine. It was found that the new manifolds with 1D helical diameter produce a high TKE and a reasonably strong induction swirl, while the ones with 2D and 3D generate lower TKEs and higher induction swirls than those of 1D. Therefore, dP/dθ and peak pressure were the highest with manifolds 1D, in particular manifold m (D, 30). Moreover, this manifold has provided the lowest fuel consumption with the engine load by about 28% reduction in comparison with the normal manifold. For engine emissions, m (D, 30) manifold has generated the lowest CO, SO2, and smoke emissions compared with the normal and other new manifolds as well, while the NO emission was the highest with this manifold.


Author(s):  
S. Pasupathy Venkateswaran ◽  
G. Nagarajan

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of re-entrant bowl geometry on both engine performance and combustion efficiency in a direct injection (DI), turbocharged diesel engine for heavy-duty applications. The piston bowl design is one of the most important factors that affect the air–fuel mixing and the subsequent combustion and pollutant formation processes in a DI diesel engine. The bowl geometry and dimensions, such as the pip region, bowl lip area, and toroidal radius, are all known to have an effect on the in-cylinder mixing and combustion processes. Based on the idea of enhancing diffusion combustion at the later stage of the combustion period, three different bowl geometries, namely, bowl 1 (baseline), bowl 2, and bowl 3 were selected and investigated. All the other relevant parameters, namely, compression ratio, maximum diameter of the bowl, squish clearance and injection rate were kept constant. A commercial CFD code STAR-CD was used to model the in-cylinder flows and combustion process, and experimental results of the baseline bowl were used to validate the numerical model. The simulation results show that, bowl 3 enhance the turbulence and hence results in better air-fuel mixing among all three bowls in a DI diesel engine. As a result, the indicated specific fuel consumption and soot emission reduced although the NOx emission is increased owing to better mixing and a faster combustion process. Globally, since the reduction in soot is larger (−46% as regards baseline) than the increase in NOx (+15% as regards baseline), it can be concluded that bowl 3 is the best trade-off between performance and emissions.


2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 2642-2654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodoros C. Zannis ◽  
Dimitrios T. Hountalas ◽  
Roussos G. Papagiannakis

2000 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 596-602
Author(s):  
Takashi Watanabe ◽  
Susumu Daidoji ◽  
Keshav S. Varde

This investigation was conducted to enhance understanding of combustion in a direct injection (DI) diesel engine with square combustion chamber. The investigation included a bench study of spray and its interaction with the chamber and correlation with engine performance. The bench study was conducted by using a liquid injection technique (LIT). The technique relies on the use of instantaneous photo images of emulsified fuel spray patterns to deduce spray behavior. It captures spray images in forced swirling flow on a positive film, which was used to deduce fuel-air mixing by scattering radiation technique. Three different chamber configurations, with different ratios of arc radius (r) to inscribed circle radius (R), and several spray deflecting angles were used in the study. The best parameters were found to be a deflecting angle of about 30 deg and a ratio of r/R of about 0.65. The results of the bench test were used to compare engine performance at similar design parameters. The engine performance was found to be superior at the above values of r/R and the deflecting angle. Engine exhaust of NOx and exhaust smoke were found to be lower at these design parameters. The experimental technique of using emulsified spray with LIT can be used qualitatively to evaluate effects of combustion chamber and fuel system design variables on engine performance. [S0742-4795(00)00104-6]


Mechanika ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 363-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADNAN BERBER

In this work, the methanol is added to the diesel fuel in the volumetric proportions of 5%-%10-%15 to diminish negative environmental impacts of diesel engines. The diesel-methanol blends in the various proportions are tested in a single-cylinder direct-injection diesel engine. According to the test results, the addition of methanol to the diesel fuel causes a maximum decrease of 13.07 % in the engine torque, and a maximum decrease of 12.54 % in the specific fuel consumption. On the other hand, the exhaust emission results show that the values of CO and CO2 decrease 38.4 % and 5.04%. However, the increase of 3.66% in the exhaust gas temperature causes the increase of 17.1% in the NOx emission. Also, a significant decrease of 39.37% in the smoke opacity is observed compared to that of the diesel fuel. Although the addition of methanol to diesel fuel causes a slightly decrease in the engine performance, the diesel-methanol blends have a reasonable and considerable positive effect on environmental concerns of diesel engines.


Author(s):  
Kareem Emara ◽  
Ahmed Emara ◽  
Elsayed Abdel Razek

As the intake system design is significant for the optimal performance of internal combustion engines, this work aims to optimize the geometry of an intake system in a direct injection (DI) diesel engine. The study concerns the geometry effects of three different intake manifolds mounted consecutively on a fully instrumented, six cylinders, in line, water cooled, 19.1 liters displacement, DI heavy duty diesel engine. A 3D numerical simulation of the turbulent flow through these manifolds is applied. The model is based on solving Navier-Stokes and energy equations in conjunction with the standard K-ε turbulence model and hypothetical boundary conditions using ANSYS- CFX 15. Numerical results of this simulation are presented in the form of flow field velocity as well as pressure field. Optimal design of the intake system is performed and the modeling made it possible to provide a fine knowledge of in-flow structures, in order to examine the adequate manifold. Engine performance characteristics such as brake torque, brake power, thermal efficiency and specific fuel consumption are also carried out to evaluate the effects of the variation in the intake manifold geometry and to validate the optimal design. Simulation and experimental results confirmed the effectiveness of the optimized manifold geometry on the engine performances.


Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodoros C. Zannis ◽  
Roussos G. Papagiannakis ◽  
Efthimios G. Pariotis ◽  
Marios I. Kourampas

An experimental investigation is performed in a single-cylinder direct-injection (DI) diesel engine using city diesel oil called DI1 and two blends of DI1 with a mixture of glycol ethers. The addition of glycol ethers to fuel DI1 produced oxygenated fuels GLY10 (10.2 mass-% glycol ethers) and GLY30 (31.3 mass-% glycol ethers) with 3% and 9% oxygen content, respectively. The addition of biofuel rapeseed methyl ester (RME) to fuel DI1 produced oxygenated blend RME30 (31.2 mass-% RME) with 3% oxygen content. Engine tests were performed with the four fuels in the DI diesel engine at 2500 RPM and at 20%, 40%, 60%, and 80% of full load. The experimental diesel engine was equipped with devices for recording cylinder pressure, injection pressure, and top dead center (TDC) position and also it was equipped with exhaust gas analyzers for measuring soot, NO, CO, and HC emissions. A MATLAB 2014 code was developed for analyzing recorded cylinder pressure, injection pressure, and TDC position data for all obtained engine cycles and for calculating the main engine performance parameters. The assessment of the experimental results showed that glycol ethers have more beneficial impact on soot and NO emissions compared to RME, whereas RME have less detrimental impact on engine performance parameters compared to glycol ethers.


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