scholarly journals Analysis of the simulation results of various particulate filter configurations in exhaust system of a spark-ignition engine

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 268-273
Author(s):  
Barbara Sokolnicka ◽  
Paweł Fuć ◽  
Natalia Szymlet ◽  
Maciej Siedlecki
Keyword(s):  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Cfd Simulation ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Flow Simulation ◽  
Exhaust System ◽  
Spark Ignition Engine ◽  
Particulate Filter ◽  
Engine Exhaust ◽  
Cell Densities

The article presents the results of exhaust gas flow simulation by three configurations of a ceramic support placed in the engine exhaust system. The carriers differed in the cell density parameters along the entire length of the filter. A filter with a fixed CPSI (Cell per Square Inch) parameter, a filter with two different cell densities and a triple support were tested. For each element of the filter, boundary conditions have been introduced, which define the nature of the flow and define the type of surface of a given element. The composition of the exhaust gases whose flow is simulated was also determined. The initial conditions of the simulation include data on pressure, temperature and velocity. AVL Fire Aftertreatment was used to carry out the simulation. The program is a leading tool for CFD simulation in the field of internal combustion engines.

Flow Guiding and Distributing Devices on the Exhaust Side of Stationary Gas Turbines

1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-85
Author(s):  
F. Fleischer ◽  
C. Koerner ◽  
J. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Flow Simulation ◽  
Exhaust System ◽  
Flow Distribution ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Gas Turbine Exhaust ◽  
First Time ◽  
Turbine Exhaust

Following repeated cases of damage caused to exhaust silencers located directly beyond gas turbine diffusers, this paper reports on investigations carried out to determine possible remedies. In all instances, an uneven exhaust gas flow distribution was found. The company’s innovative approach to the problem involved constructing a scale model of a complete gas turbine exhaust system and using it for flow simulation purposes. It was established for the first time that, subject to certain conditions, the results of tests conducted on a model can be applied to the actual turbine exhaust system. It is shown that when an unfavorable duct arrangement might produce an uneven exhaust flow, scale models are useful in the development of suitable flow-distributing devices.

scholarly journals Analysis of the effect of exhaust aftertreatment systems con-figurations on the temperature measured in the exhaust sys-tem of a spark-ignition engine

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 263-267
Author(s):  
Maciej Siedlecki ◽  
Paweł Fuć ◽  
Barbara Sokolnicka ◽  
Natlia Szymlet
Keyword(s):  
Exhaust System ◽  
Spark Ignition Engine ◽  
Particulate Filter ◽  
Operating Efficiency ◽  
Exhaust Aftertreatment ◽  
Exhaust Gas ◽  
Gas Temperature ◽  
Driving Conditions ◽  
Exhaust Gas Temperature ◽  
Aftertreatment Systems

The article discusses the effect of exhaust aftertreatment systems configuration on the resulting exhaust gas temperature at selected points of the exhaust system. Catalytic reactors and particle filters must reach a specific temperature in order to effectively perform their functions. The temperature they obtain decreases with the increasing distance from the exhaust manifold, as the gases cool along the way. The performed research consisted of measuring the exhaust gas temperature in various places of the exhaust system in simulated driving conditions mapped on the dynamic engine brake station in the aspect of using a particulate filter and its resulting operating efficiency due to the temperature. Measuring the temperature using thermo-couples allowed to assess the probability of achieving full operation of the filters during urban and extra-urban exploitation in a simulation of real driving conditions.

scholarly journals The impact of particulate filter substrate type on the gaseous exhaust components emission

2020 ◽  
Vol 183 (4) ◽  
pp. 58-62
Author(s):  
Barbara Sokolnicka-Popis ◽  
Natalia Szymlet ◽  
Maciej Siedlecki ◽  
Dawid Gallas
Keyword(s):  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Fuel Injection ◽  
Metal Substrate ◽  
Solid Particles ◽  
Spark Ignition Engine ◽  
Particulate Filter ◽  
Combustion Engines ◽  
Substrate Type ◽  
Direct Fuel Injection ◽  
The Impact

The article presents ceramic and metal substrate filtration efficiency in the particulate filter of a spark-ignition engine with direct fuel injection. Gaseous exhaust components were taken into account. There are many publications on the solid particles mass and number reduction, so the authors examined the effect of catalytic carriers on gaseous compounds, such as CO, NOx, THC, whose content also poses a threat to human health and life, and this issue is not often described in the literature dedicated to measurements of modern internal combustion engines. During the tests, the length and carrier material effect on the emission of harmful substances in exhaust gases was determined.

scholarly journals Flow Guiding and Distributing Devices on the Exhaust Side of Stationary Gas Turbines

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friedrich Fleischer ◽  
Christian Koerner ◽  
Juergen Mann
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Flow Simulation ◽  
Exhaust System ◽  
Flow Distribution ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Gas Turbine Exhaust ◽  
First Time ◽  
Turbine Exhaust

Following repeated cases of damage caused to exhaust silencers located directly beyond gas turbine diffusers, this paper reports on investigations carried out to determine possible remedies. In all instances, an uneven exhaust gas flow distribution was found to be present. The company’s innovative approach to the problem involved constructing a scale model of a complete gas turbine exhaust system and using it for flow simulation purposes. It was established for the first time that, subject to certain conditions, the results of tests conducted on a model can be applied to the actual turbine exhaust system. It is shown that when an unfavourable duct arrangement might produce an uneven exhaust flow, scale models are useful in the development of suitable flow-distributing devices.

scholarly journals Determination of the Realistic Turbocharger Efficiency With Pulsating Gas-Flow Compared on a 4-Cylinder Engine

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Trenc ◽  
Matej Čer ◽  
Frančišek Bizjan ◽  
Aleš Hribernik
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Mass Flow ◽  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Exhaust System ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Pulse Number ◽  
Moderate Pressure ◽  
Turbine Efficiency ◽  
First Case

Small single or twin entry radial turbines are mostly used to drive compressors of the turbocharged internal combustion engines. There are two general possibilities to feed the turbine of a four-stroke, 4-cylinder turbocharged Diesel engine: 1) by preserving most of the available exhaust kinetic energy, or 2) by mixing exhaust pulses from all cylinders in one common manifold. In the first case, better utilization of the dynamic pulse energy increases efficiency of the turbine; highly unsteady mass flow of the exhaust gasses, on the other hand, and thus periods of partial exhaust flow admission at the turbine inlet simultaneously reduces this gain in the turbine efficiency. More steady mass-flow of the exhaust gasses is created in the case of the exhaust system 2), however some kinetic energy is lost during the mixing phase in the common exhaust manifold. Calculation of the overall turbocharger and turbine efficiency is normally based on average values of the measured pressures and temperatures. As the result apparent efficiencies are obtained; the more the flow is pulsating, the bigger is the difference between the real and the apparent efficiency. The ratio between these two efficiencies is known as the energy pulsation factor β. It depends generally on the “pulse intensity”-pressure deviation from its mean value, shape of the pressure pulse, number of the individual pulses feeding separate gas turbine inlets, turbocharger, and can be successfully used to determine real efficiency of a turbocharger and to define some working parameters of the engine. A field of β factors for different engine running conditions and for the 4-cylinder engine with 2-cylinder group pulse system (rarely applied), and the commonly applied exhaust system with 4-cylinder group and moderate pressure fluctuation is presented in the paper. Influence of the dynamic exhaust temperatures on the β value is discussed as well.

scholarly journals Gasoline Particulate Filter Accelerated Aging Processes - a Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-294
Author(s):  
Péter Nagy ◽  
Ibolya Zsoldos
Keyword(s):  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Soot Formation ◽  
Accelerated Aging ◽  
Exhaust System ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Particulate Filter ◽  
Particulate Emissions ◽  
Combustion Engines ◽  
Gasoline Particulate Filter ◽  
Engine Testing

This article briefly presents the testing processes of vehicle and engine testing on chassis and engine dynamometers in a laboratory environment and their development trend due to the stricter environmental regulations. It then explains the test cycles that form the basis of the measurements and their effect on emissions and components of the exhaust system. It briefly summarizes the potential processes of soot formation. It researches and describes the possibilities of reducing the duration and costs of testing and inspection processes in the field of particulate emissions of internal combustion engines.

Development of a Soot Load Sensor Using Electrical Capacitance Imaging

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ragibul Huq ◽  
Sohel Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Diesel Engines ◽  
Fuel Efficiency ◽  
Exhaust System ◽  
Particulate Filter ◽  
Electrical Capacitance ◽  
Engine Exhaust ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
The Status ◽  
Exhaust After Treatment

This paper presents an innovative approach for measuring particulate matter deposition (soot load) in a diesel particulate filter (DPF) using electrical capacitance imaging. Emission regulations on diesel engines for gaseous as well as particulate matter (soot) emissions are getting stringent every few years by the environment regulatory agencies. Modern diesel engines are equipped with DPFs, as well as on-board technologies to evaluate the status of DPF, because complete knowledge of DPF soot load is very critical for robust and efficient operation of the engine exhaust after treatment system. In course of time, soot will be deposited inside the DPF which will clog the filter and generate a back pressure in the exhaust system, negatively impacting the fuel efficiency. To remove the soot build-up, regeneration (active or passive) of the DPF must be done as an engine exhaust after treatment process periodically. Since the regeneration process consumes fuel, a robust and efficient operation based on accurate knowledge of the soot load becomes essential in order to keep the fuel consumption at a minimum. In this paper, we propose a novel sensing method for a DPF that can measure in situ soot load using electrical capacitance imaging. Experimental results show that the proposed method offers an effective way to measure the soot load in DPF. The proposed method is expected to have a profound impact in improving overall DPF filtering efficiency and durability of a DPF through appropriate closed-loop regeneration operation.

Measurement of cycle-resolved engine-out soot concentration from a diesel-pilot assisted natural gas direct-injection compression-ignition engine

2021 ◽  
pp. 146808742098626
Author(s):  
Pooyan Kheirkhah ◽  
Patrick Kirchen ◽  
Steven Rogak
Keyword(s):  
Response Time ◽  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Fuel Injection ◽  
Exhaust System ◽  
Cycle Period ◽  
Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer ◽  
Compression Ignition Engine ◽  
Engine Operation ◽  
Exhaust Port ◽  
Exhaust Stream

Exhaust-stream particulate matter (PM) emission from combustion sources such as internal combustion engines are typically characterized with modest temporal resolutions; however, in-cylinder investigations have demonstrated significant variability and the importance of individual cycles in transient PM emissions. Here, using a Fast Exhaust Nephelometer (FEN), a methodology is developed for measuring the cycle-specific PM concentration at the exhaust port of a single-cylinder research engine. The measured FEN light-scattering is converted to cycle-resolved soot mass concentration ([Formula: see text]), and used to characterize the variability of engine-out soot emission. To validate this method, exhaust-port FEN measurements are compared with diluted gravimetric PM mass and scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS) measurements, resulting in close agreements with an overall root-mean-square deviation of better than 30%. It is noted that when PM is sampled downstream in the exhaust system, the particles are larger by 50–70 nm due to coagulation. The response time of the FEN was characterized using a “skip-firing” scheme, by enabling and disabling the fuel injection during otherwise steady-state operation. The average response time due to sample transfer and mixing times is 55 ms, well below the engine cycle period (100 ms) for the considered engine speeds, thus suitable for single-cycle measurements carried out in this work. Utilizing the fast-response capability of the FEN, it is observed that cycle-specific gross indicated mean effective pressure (GIMEP) and [Formula: see text] are negatively correlated ([Formula: see text]: 0.2–0.7), implying that cycles with lower GIMEP emit more soot. The physical causes of this association deserve further investigation, but are expected to be caused by local fuel-air mixing effects. The averaged exhaust-port [Formula: see text] is similar to the diluted gravimetric measurements, but the cycle-to-cycle variations can only be detected with the FEN. The methodology developed here will be used in future investigations to characterize PM emissions during transient engine operation, and to enable exhaust-stream PM measurements for optical engine experiments.

scholarly journals CFD Simulation of Solid Suspension for a Liquid–Solid Industrial Stirred Reactor

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 5705
Author(s):  
Adrian Stuparu ◽  
Romeo Susan-Resiga ◽  
Alin Bosioc
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Reaction ◽  
Cfd Simulation ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Solid Phase ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Chemical Reactor ◽  
Liquid Mixtures ◽  
Multiphase Model ◽  
Chemical Product ◽  
Two Phase

The present study examines the possibility of using an industrial stirred chemical reactor, originally employed for liquid–liquid mixtures, for operating with two-phase liquid–solid suspensions. It is critical when obtaining a high-quality chemical product that the solid phase remains suspended in the liquid phase long enough that the chemical reaction takes place. The impeller was designed for the preparation of a chemical product with a prescribed composition. The present study aims at finding, using a numerical simulation analysis, if the performance of the original impeller is suitable for obtaining a new chemical product with a different composition. The Eulerian multiphase model was employed along with the renormalization (RNG) k-ε turbulence model to simulate liquid–solid flow with a free surface in a stirred tank. A sliding-mesh approach was used to model the impeller rotation with the commercial CFD code, FLUENT. The results obtained underline that 25% to 40% of the solid phase is sedimented on the lower part of the reactor, depending on the initial conditions. It results that the impeller does not perform as needed; hence, the suspension time of the solid phase is not long enough for the chemical reaction to be properly completed.

The Design of Exhaust Gas Cooler for Diesel Particulate Bag Filter

2015 ◽  
Vol 737 ◽  
pp. 608-611
Author(s):  
Xiu Ye Wang ◽  
Guo Bin Li ◽  
Nan Xu
Keyword(s):  
Diesel Exhaust ◽  
Particulate Filter ◽  
Particulate Emissions ◽  
Bag Filter ◽  
Engine Exhaust ◽  
Particulate Emission ◽  
Filter System ◽  
Exhaust Temperature ◽  
Diesel Exhaust Particulate ◽  
Exhaust Particulate

Currently, the application of bag-filter technology in controlling diesel exhaust particulate emissions has been close to practical stage. As one of the key links in bag-filter technology, engine exhaust cooling can directly influence working safety of the entire exhaust particulate filter system. Thermodynamic calculations and experimental research of water-cooled chiller has provided a feasible basis for water cooler to be used in actual diesel exhaust particulate emission control system. The cooler can make engine exhaust temperature drop from 400 to 180 . Even when engine works in high-speed and high-load condition, inlet exhaust temperature of cooler can descend from 500 to 190 or so after cooling, which can still meet bag-filter system requirement of below 200 .

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