NOx Reduction on Direct Injection Natural Gas Engines

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuichi Goto ◽  
Yoshio Sato
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Nox Reduction ◽  
Natural Gas Engines

Transient Behavior of Glow Plugs in Direct-Injection Natural Gas Engines

2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Xu Cheng ◽  
James S. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
High Surface ◽  
Cold Start ◽  
Transfer Model ◽  
Ignition Process ◽  
Computational Domain ◽  
Glow Plug ◽  
Natural Gas Engines

Glow plugs are a possible ignition source for direct injected natural gas engines. This ignition assistance application is much different than the cold start assist function for which most glow plugs have been designed. In the cold start application, the glow plug is simply heating the air in the cylinder. In the cycle-by-cycle ignition assist application, the glow plug needs to achieve high surface temperatures at specific times in the engine cycle to provide a localized source of ignition. Whereas a simple lumped heat capacitance model is a satisfactory representation of the glow plug for the air heating situation, a much more complex situation exists for hot surface ignition. Simple measurements and theoretical analysis show that the thickness of the heat penetration layer is small within the time scale of the ignition preparation period (1–2 ms). The experiments and analysis were used to develop a discretized representation of the glow plug domain. A simplified heat transfer model, incorporating both convection and radiation losses, was developed for the discretized representation to compute heat transfer to and from the surrounding gas. A scheme for coupling the glow plug model to the surrounding gas computational domain in the KIVA-3V engine simulation code was also developed. The glow plug model successfully simulates the natural gas ignition process for a direct-injection natural gas engine. As well, it can provide detailed information on the local glow plug surface temperature distribution, which can aid in the design of more reliable glow plugs.

Modeling of Ignition and Combustion for Glow Plug Assisted Direct Injection Natural Gas Engines

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Xu Cheng ◽  
James S. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Heated Surface ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Cfd Modeling ◽  
Spontaneous Ignition ◽  
Layer Model ◽  
Glow Plug ◽  
Natural Gas Engines ◽  
Gas Ignition ◽  
Ignition And Combustion

Direct injection natural gas (DING) engines offer the advantages of high thermal efficiency and high power output compared to spark ignition natural gas engines. Injected natural gas requires some form of ignition assist in order to ignite in the time available in a diesel engine combustion chamber. A glow plug — a heated surface — is one form of ignition assist. Simple experiments show that the thickness of the heat penetration layer of a glow plug is very small (≈10−5 m) within the time scale of the ignition preparation period (1–2 ms). Meanwhile, the theoretical analyses reveal that only a very thin layer of the surrounding gases (in micrometer scale) can be heated to high temperature to achieve spontaneous ignition. A discretized glow plug model and virtual gas sub-layer model have been developed for CFD modeling of glow plug ignition and combustion for DING diesel engines. In this paper, CFD modeling results are presented. The results were obtained using a KIVA3 code modified to include the above mentioned new developed models. Natural gas ignition over a bare glow plug was simulated. The results were validated against experiments. Simulation of natural gas ignition over a shielded glow plug was also carried out and the results illustrate the necessity of using a shield. This paper shows the success of the discretized glow plug model working together with the virtual gas sub-layer model for modeling glow plug assisted natural gas direct injection engines. The modeling can aid in the design of injection and ignition systems for glow plug assisted DING engines.

Numerical investigations on pilot ignited high pressure direct injection natural gas engines: A review

2021 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 111390
Author(s):  
Menghan Li ◽  
Hanming Wu ◽  
Xiaori Liu ◽  
Zhangning Wei ◽  
Hongjian Tian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Natural Gas Engines ◽  
Numerical Investigations

Soot and combustion models for direct-injection natural gas engines

2020 ◽  
pp. 146808742097801
Author(s):  
Kang Pan ◽  
James Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Model ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Soot Formation ◽  
Direct Injection ◽  
Emission Characteristics ◽  
Gas Engine ◽  
Glow Plug ◽  
Natural Gas Engines ◽  
Natural Gas Engine ◽  
Soot Model

This paper summarizes the validation of a modified multi-step phenomenological soot model and an enhanced combustion model used for direct-injection natural gas engines. In this study, a modified phenomenological soot model including the key steps for soot formation, such as particle inception and surface growth, was developed in KIVA-3V to replace the empirical model for use in a glow plug assisted natural gas direct-injection engine. The soot model was integrated with a CANTERA based kinetic model, which employs a recently developed low temperature natural gas mechanism to predict the reactions of some important gaseous species involved in the soot formation, such as acetylene and hydroxyl. The simulated in-cylinder flame propagation process induced by a glow plug was compared to the experimental optical images obtained in an engine-like environment. In addition, both the kinetic model and modified soot model were compared with the experimental emission data to validate their reliability for predicting natural gas engine emission characteristics. The engine combustion efficiencies obtained in simulations and experiments were compared as well. The matched results suggest that the computational models can well predict the natural gas combustion and emission characteristics, and will be suitable for investigating the direct-injection natural gas engine technologies.

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