scholarly journals Performance, Efficiency and Emissions Evaluation of Gasoline Port-Fuel Injection, Natural Gas Direct Injection and Blended Operation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Pamminger ◽  
Thomas Wallner ◽  
James Sevik ◽  
Riccardo Scarcelli ◽  
Carrie Hall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Fuel Injection ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
Internal Combustion ◽  
Intake Port ◽  
Combustion Engines ◽  
Part Load ◽  
Port Fuel Injection

The need to further reduce fuel consumption and decrease the output of emissions — in order to be within future emissions legislation — is still an ongoing effort for the development of internal combustion engines. Natural gas is a fossil fuel which is comprised mostly of methane and makes it very attractive for use in internal combustion engines because of its higher knock resistance and higher molar hydrogen-to-carbon ratio compared to gasoline. The current paper compares the combustion and emissions behavior of the test engine being operated on either a representative U.S. market gasoline or natural gas. Moreover, specific in-cylinder blend ratios with gasoline and natural gas were also investigated at part-load and wide open throttle conditions. The dilution tolerance for part-load operation was investigated by adding cooled exhaust gas recirculation. The engine used for these investigations was a single cylinder research engine for light duty application which is equipped with two separate fuel systems. Gasoline was injected into the intake port; natural gas was injected directly into the cylinder to overcome the power density loss usually connected with port fuel injection of natural gas. Injecting natural gas directly into the cylinder reduced both ignition delay and combustion duration of the combustion process compared to the injection of gasoline into the intake port. Injecting natural gas and gasoline simultaneously resulted in a higher dilution tolerance compared to operation on one of the fuels alone. Significantly higher net indicated mean effective pressure and indicated thermal efficiency were achieved when natural gas was directly injected after intake valve closing at wide open throttle, compared to an injection while the intake valves were still open. In general it was shown that the blend ratio and the start of injection need to be varied depending on load and dilution level in order to operate the engine with the highest efficiency or highest load.

A Numerical Investigation of Combustion Chamber Geometry Effects on Natural Gas Direct Injection Properties in a SI Engine With Centrally Mounted Multi-Hole Injector

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bijan Yadollahi ◽  
Masoud Boroomand
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Model ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Flow Field ◽  
Combustion Chamber ◽  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Gasoline Engine ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Internal Combustion ◽  
Combustion Engines ◽  
Validity Of Results

Due to the vast resources of natural gas (NG), it has emerged as an alternative fuel for SI internal combustion engines in recent years. The need to have better fuel economy and less emission especially that of greenhouse gases has resulted in development of NG fueled engines. Direct injection of natural gas into the cylinder of SI internal combustion engines has shown great potential for improvement of performance and reduction of engine emissions especially CO2 and PM. Direct injection of NG into the cylinder of SI engines is rather new thus the flow field phenomena and suitable configuration of injector and combustion chamber geometry has not been investigated completely. In this study a numerical model has been developed in AVL FIRE software to perform investigation of direct natural gas injection into the cylinder of spark ignition internal combustion engines. In this regard, two main parts have been taken into consideration aiming to convert an MPFI gasoline engine to direct injection NG engine. In the first part of study multidimensional numerical simulation of transient injection process, mixing and flow field have been performed via different validation cases in order to assure the numerical model validity of results. Adaption of such a modeling was found to be a challenging task because of required computational effort and numerical instabilities. In all cases present results were found to have excellent agreement with experimental and numerical results from literature. In the second part, using the moving mesh capability, the validated model has been applied to methane injection into the cylinder of a direct injection engine. Five different piston head shapes have been taken into consideration in investigations. An inwardly opening multi-hole injector has been adapted to all cases. The injector location has been set to be centrally mounted. The effects of combustion chamber geometry have been studied on mixing of air-fuel inside cylinder via quantitative and qualitative representation of results. Based on the results, suitable geometrical configuration for a NG DI engine has been discussed.

scholarly journals A New Fuel-Injection Mechatronic Control Method for Direct-Injection Internal Combustion Engines

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-280
Author(s):  
Józef Tutaj ◽  
Bogdan Fijałkowski
Keyword(s):  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Fuel Injection ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Internal Combustion ◽  
Diesel Oil ◽  
Combustion Engines ◽  
Fuel Injectors ◽  
Electro Magnetic ◽  
Rising Time

Abstract In this paper, a novel fuel-injection mechatronic control method and system for direct injection (DI) internal combustion engines (ICE) is proposed. This method and system is based on the energy saving in a capacitance using DC-DC converter, giving a very fast ON state of the fuel injectors’ electro-magnetic fluidical valves without an application of the initial load current. A fuel-injection controller for the DI ICEs that provides a very short rising time of an electromagnet-winding current in an initial ON state of the fuel-injector’s electromagnetic fluidical valves, which improves a fuel-injection controller reliability and simplify its construction, is presented. Due to a number of advantages of afore -mentioned fuel-injection mechatronic control method and system, it may be utilised for the DI ICEs with fuel injectors dedicated to all types of liquid and/or gas fuels, for example, gasoline, diesel-oil, alkohol, LPG and NPG.

Nozzle for Oscillating Direct Injection in H2 Internal Combustion Engines

MTZ worldwide ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 42-45
Author(s):  
Bernhard Bobusch ◽  
Thomas Ebert ◽  
Anja Fink ◽  
Oliver Nett
Keyword(s):  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Internal Combustion ◽  
Combustion Engines

Comparison between gasoline direct injection and compressed natural gas port fuel injection under maximum load condition

Energy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
pp. 117173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeongwoo Lee ◽  
Cheolwoong Park ◽  
Jongwon Bae ◽  
Yongrae Kim ◽  
Sunyoup Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Fuel Injection ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Load Condition ◽  
Maximum Load ◽  
Gasoline Direct Injection ◽  
Compressed Natural Gas ◽  
Port Fuel Injection

scholarly journals Hydrogen application in internal combustion engines

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Arthur R. Asoyan ◽  
Igor K. Danilov ◽  
Igor A. Asoyan ◽  
Georgy M. Polishchuk
Keyword(s):  
Burning Rate ◽  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
Hydrocarbon Fuel ◽  
Internal Combustion ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Combustion Engines ◽  
Environmental Friendliness ◽  
Petroleum Origin ◽  
Order Of Magnitude

A technical solution has been proposed to reduce the consumption of basic hydrocarbon fuel, to improve the technical, economic and environmental performance of internal combustion engines by affecting the combustion process of the fuel-air mixture with a minimum effective mass fraction of hydrogen additive in the fuel-air mixture. The burning rate of hydrogen-air mixtures is an order of magnitude greater than the burning rate of similar mixtures based on gasoline or diesel fuel, compared with the former, they are favorably distinguished by their greater detonation stability. With minimal additions of hydrogen to the fuel-air charge, its combustion time is significantly reduced, since hydrogen, having previously mixed with a portion of the air entering the cylinder and burning itself, effectively ignites the mixture in its entirety. Issues related to the accumulation of hydrogen on board the car, its storage, explosion safety, etc., significantly inhibit the development of mass production of cars using hydrogen fuel. The described technical solution allows the generation of hydrogen on board the car and without accumulation to use it as an additive to the main fuel in internal combustion engines. The technical result is to reduce the consumption of hydrocarbon fuels (of petroleum origin) and increase the environmental friendliness of the car due to the reduction of the emission of harmful substances in exhaust gases.

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