scholarly journals Towards Marine Dual Fuel Engines Digital Twins—Integrated Modelling of Thermodynamic Processes and Control System Functions

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sokratis Stoumpos ◽  
Gerasimos Theotokatos ◽  
Christoforos Mavrelos ◽  
Evangelos Boulougouris
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
Integrated Modelling ◽  
Mode Switching ◽  
Combustion Model ◽  
Dual Fuel ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Engine Operation ◽  
Digital Twins ◽  
Dual Fuel Engines

This study aims at developing an integrated model that combines detailed engine thermodynamic modelling and the control system functional modelling paving the way towards the development of high-fidelity digital twins. To sufficiently represent the combustion process, a multi-Wiebe function approach was employed, whereas a database for storing the combustion model parameters was developed. The developed model was employed for the systematic investigation of a marine four-stroke dual fuel engine response during demanding transient operation with mode switching and load changes. The derived results were analysed to identify the critical engine components and their effect on the engine operational limitations. The results demonstrate that the developed model can sufficiently represent the engine and its subsystems/components behaviour and effectively capture the engine control system’s functionality. The appropriate turbocharger matching along with the sufficient design of the exhaust gas waste gate valve and fuel control systems are crucial for ensuring the smooth engine operation of dual fuel engines.

Enhancement of the combustion process in dual-fuel engines at part loads using exhaust gas recirculation

2007 ◽  
Vol 221 (7) ◽  
pp. 877-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Pirouzpanah ◽  
R Khoshbakhti Saray
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Kinetics ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
Exhaust Gas Recirculation ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Combustion Model ◽  
Dual Fuel ◽  
Exhaust Gas ◽  
Performance And Emission ◽  
Dual Fuel Engines ◽  
Gas Recirculation

Dual-fuel engines at part loads inevitably suffer from lower thermal efficiency and higher carbon monoxide and unburned fuel emission. The present work was carried out to investigate the combustion characteristics of a dual-fuel (diesel-gas) engine at part loads, using a single-zone combustion model with detailed chemical kinetics for combustion of natural gas fuel. The authors have developed software in which the pilot fuel is considered as a subsidiary zone and a heat source derived from two superimposedWiebe combustion functions to account for its contribution to ignition of the gaseous fuel and the rest of the total released energy. The chemical kinetics mechanism consists of 112 reactions with 34 species. This quasi-two-zone combustion model is able to establish the development of the combustion process with time and the associated important operating parameters, such as pressure, temperature, heat release rate (HRR), and species concentration. Therefore, this paper describes an attempt to investigate the combustion phenomenon at part loads and using hot exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) to improve the above-mentioned drawbacks and problems. By employing this technique, it is found that lower percentages of EGR and allowance for its thermal and radical effects have a positive influence on performance and emission parameters of dual-fuel engines at part loads. Predicted values show good agreement with corresponding experimental values under special engine operating conditions (quarter-load, 1400 r/min). Implications are discussed in detail.

Combustion Quasi-Two Zone Predictive Model for Dual Fuel Engines

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. Abd Alla ◽  
H. A. Soliman ◽  
O. A. Badr ◽  
M. F. Abd Rabbo
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Model ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
Chemical Species ◽  
Kinetic Scheme ◽  
Chemical Kinetic ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Gaseous Fuel ◽  
Combustion Model ◽  
Dual Fuel ◽  
Dual Fuel Engines

Abstract A quasi-two zone predictive model developed in the present work for the prediction of the combustion processes in dual fuel engines and some of their performance features. Methane is used as the main fuel while employing a small quantity of liquid fuel (pilot) injected through the conventional diesel fuel system. This model emphasizes the effects of chemical kinetics activity of the premixed gaseous fuel on the combustion performance, while the role of the pilot fuel in the ignition and heat release processes is considered. A detailed chemical kinetic scheme consists of 178 elementary reaction steps and 41 chemical species is employed to describe the oxidation of the gaseous fuel from the start of compression to the end of expansion process. The associated formation and concentrations of exhaust emissions are correspondingly established. This combustion model is able to establish the development of the combustion process with time and the associated important operating parameters such as pressure, temperature, rates of energy release and composition. Predicted values for methane operation show good agreement with corresponding previous experimental values over a range of operating conditions mainly associated with high load operation.

Characteristic Analysis in Combustion Process of Marine Dual Fuel Engine

2015 ◽  
Vol 727-728 ◽  
pp. 465-468
Author(s):  
Ping Qu ◽  
Hong Liang Yu ◽  
Feng Bo Zhang ◽  
Wen Juan Zhao ◽  
Feng Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
Combustion Model ◽  
Dual Fuel ◽  
Characteristic Analysis ◽  
Dual Fuel Engines

Currently, the research of marine dual fuel engine is rare, while the combustion process of marine dual fuel engine is no precise conclusion. This paper built a combustion model of dual fuel engine by AVL FIRE software, and compared experimental data to prove the accuracy of the model, analyzed the characteristics in combustion process of marine dual fuel engines, provided a theoretical basis for the further optimize and design of marine dual fuel engine.

The development of an electronic control system for diesel–natural gas dual-fuel engine

2018 ◽  
Vol 232 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-480
Author(s):  
Youyao Fu ◽  
Bing Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Electronic Control Unit ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Mode Switching ◽  
Dual Fuel ◽  
Electronic Control ◽  
Engine Operation ◽  
Electronic Control System ◽  
Diesel Nozzle

To meet the actual application requirements for the diesel–natural gas dual-fuel engine refit, a new electronic control system for the dual-fuel engine is developed in the study. Specifically, an active mode switching board is developed to achieve flexible switching between the pure diesel mode and dual-fuel mode. A diesel nozzle physical simulator is developed to ensure that the original diesel electronic control unit does not trigger fault alarm when engine works in the dual-fuel mode. Moreover, a dual-fuel electronic control unit, which uses the high-speed and multicore TMS320F28M35 as its microcontroller unit, is additionally developed on the basis of the original diesel electronic control unit. The peak and hold current shape for the diesel nozzle is intelligently controlled by the software program in C2000 core. Experiments reveal that the developed electronic control system can select a proper working mode according to the engine operation condition and smoothly switch the working mode without any fault alarms.

scholarly journals Numerical Study of Engine Performance and Emissions for Port Injection of Ammonia into a Gasoline\Ethanol Dual-Fuel Spark Ignition Engine

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1441
Author(s):  
Farhad Salek ◽  
Meisam Babaie ◽  
Amin Shakeri ◽  
Seyed Vahid Hosseini ◽  
Timothy Bodisco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Study ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
Engine Performance ◽  
Spark Ignition ◽  
Spark Ignition Engine ◽  
Combustion Model ◽  
Dual Fuel ◽  
Spark Ignition Engines ◽  
Performance And Emissions ◽  
Hc Emissions

This study aims to investigate the effect of the port injection of ammonia on performance, knock and NOx emission across a range of engine speeds in a gasoline/ethanol dual-fuel engine. An experimentally validated numerical model of a naturally aspirated spark-ignition (SI) engine was developed in AVL BOOST for the purpose of this investigation. The vibe two zone combustion model, which is widely used for the mathematical modeling of spark-ignition engines is employed for the numerical analysis of the combustion process. A significant reduction of ~50% in NOx emissions was observed across the engine speed range. However, the port injection of ammonia imposed some negative impacts on engine equivalent BSFC, CO and HC emissions, increasing these parameters by 3%, 30% and 21%, respectively, at the 10% ammonia injection ratio. Additionally, the minimum octane number of primary fuel required to prevent knock was reduced by up to 3.6% by adding ammonia between 5 and 10%. All in all, the injection of ammonia inside a bio-fueled engine could make it robust and produce less NOx, while having some undesirable effects on BSFC, CO and HC emissions.

Knock prediction for dual fuel engines by using a simplified combustion model

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 591-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Shao-mei ◽  
Liu Zhen-tao ◽  
Yan Zhao-da
Keyword(s):  
Combustion Model ◽  
Dual Fuel ◽  
Dual Fuel Engines

scholarly journals Possibilities to identify engine combustion model parameters by analysis of the instantaneous crankshaft angular speed

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slobodan Popovic ◽  
Miroljub Tomic
Keyword(s):  
Combustion Process ◽  
Nonlinear Least Squares ◽  
Angular Speed ◽  
Spark Ignition Engine ◽  
Combustion Model ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Si Engine ◽  
Engine Combustion ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Engine Crankshaft

In this paper, novel method for obtaining information about combustion process in individual cylinders of a multi-cylinder Spark Ignition Engine based on instantaneous crankshaft angular velocity is presented. The method is based on robust box constrained Levenberg-Marquardt minimization of nonlinear Least Squares given for measured and simulated instantaneous crankshaft angular speed which is determined from the solution of the engine dynamics torque balance equation. Combination of in-house developed comprehensive Zero-Dimensional Two-Zone SI engine combustion model and analytical friction loss model in angular domain have been applied to provide sensitivity and error analysis regarding Wiebe combustion model parameters, heat transfer coefficient and compression ratio. The analysis is employed to evaluate the basic starting assumption and possibility to provide reliable combustion analysis based on instantaneous engine crankshaft angular speed.

Cylinder Specific Pressure Predictions for Advanced Dual Fuel Compression Ignition Engines Utilizing a Two-Stage Functional Data Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Huang ◽  
Lulu Kang ◽  
Mateos Kassa ◽  
Carrie Hall
Keyword(s):  
Combustion Process ◽  
Operating Parameter ◽  
Combustion Model ◽  
Dual Fuel ◽  
Compression Ignition ◽  
Cylinder Pressure ◽  
Specific Pressure ◽  
Compression Ignition Engine ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Pressure Trace

In-cylinder pressure is a critical metric that is used to characterize the combustion process of engines. While this variable is measured on many laboratory test beds, in-cylinder pressure transducers are not common on production engines. As such, accurate methods of predicting the cylinder pressure have been developed both for modeling and control efforts. This work examines a cylinder-specific pressure model for a dual fuel compression ignition engine. This model links the key engine input variables to the critical engine outputs including indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) and peak pressure. To identify the specific impact of each operating parameter on the pressure trace, a surrogate model was produced based on a functional Gaussian process (GP) regression approach. The pressure trace is modeled as a function of the operating parameters, and a two-stage estimation procedure is introduced to overcome various computational challenges. This modeling method is compared to a commercial dual fuel combustion model and shown to be more accurate and less computationally intensive.

Combustion in Gas Fueled Compression: Ignition Engines of the Dual Fuel Type

2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 827-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Karim
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Fuel ◽  
Combustion Process ◽  
Gaseous Fuel ◽  
Dual Fuel ◽  
Spark Ignition Engines ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Compression Ignition Engines ◽  
Operational Characteristics ◽  
Dual Fuel Engines ◽  
Gas Fueled

In the dual fuel engine much of the energy release comes from the combustion of the gaseous fuel while only a small amount of diesel liquid fuel provides ignition through timed cylinder injection. Such operation with optimum conversion methods has the potential to provide operational characteristics that are comparable or superior to those of the corresponding diesel or spark ignition engines. These characteristics may be realized only if sufficiently effective measures can be ensured both for the avoidance of knock, usually at high loads, and incomplete gaseous fuel utilization at relatively light loads. An objective of this contribution is to demonstrate that the main effort needed to overcome the problems associated with the operation of gas fueled dual fuel engines is via a better control of the relatively complex processes of combustion. Both experimental and analytical modeling procedures for effecting optimum improvement to the combustion process are described.

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