Analysis of Scavenged Pre-Chamber for Light Duty Truck Gas Engine

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zbynek Syrovatka ◽  
Michal Takats ◽  
Jiri Vavra
Keyword(s):  
Gas Engine ◽  
Light Duty ◽  
Light Duty Truck

Scavenged Pre-Chamber on a Gas Engine for Light Duty Truck

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Vávra ◽  
Zbyněk Syrovátka ◽  
Michal Takáts ◽  
Eduardo Barrientos
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Thermal Loading ◽  
Spark Ignition ◽  
Spark Ignition Engine ◽  
Validation Data ◽  
Automotive Engine ◽  
Light Duty ◽  
Full Load Operation ◽  
Gas Fueled ◽  
Light Duty Truck

This work presents an experimental investigation of advanced combustion of extremely lean natural gas / air mixture in a gas fueled automotive engine with a scavenged pre-chamber. The pre-chamber, which was designed and manufactured in-house, is scavenged with natural gas and is installed into a modified cylinder head of a gas fueled engine for a light duty truck. For initial pre-chamber ignition tests and optimizations, the engine is modified into a single cylinder one. The pre-chamber is equipped with a spark plug, fuel supply and a miniature pressure transducer. This arrangement allows a simultaneous crank angle resolved pressure measurement in the pre-chamber and in the main combustion chamber and provides important validation data for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The results of the tests and initial optimizations show that the pre-chamber engine is able to operate within a significantly wider range of mixture composition than the conventional spark ignition engine. Full load operation of the pre-chamber engine is feasible with stoichiometric mixture (compatible with a three-way catalyst), without excessive thermal loading of components. At low load operation, the results show low NOx emissions with a high potential to fulfil current and future NOx limits without lean NOx exhaust gas after-treatment. The scavenged pre-chamber helps to increase the combustion rate mainly in the initial phase of combustion. However, significant unburned hydrocarbons emissions due to incomplete combustion need further optimizations. Thermal efficiency of lean operation of the engine with the pre-chamber compared to the conventional spark ignition system operated in stoichiometric conditions shows approximately 13% improvement.

Effects of different water percentages in non-surfactant emulsion fuel on performance and exhaust emissions of a light-duty truck

2018 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 559-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Aiyshah Mazlan ◽  
Wira Jazair Yahya ◽  
Ahmad Muhsin Ithnin ◽  
A.K. Hasannuddin ◽  
Nur Atiqah Ramlan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Exhaust Emissions ◽  
Light Duty ◽  
Light Duty Truck

Parametric study for a ceramic diesel particulate trap application on a light duty truck

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (1/2/3/4) ◽  
pp. 219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantin Pattas ◽  
Nikolas Kyriakis ◽  
Zissis Samaras ◽  
Theodoros Manikas ◽  
Panaylotis Pistikopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parametric Study ◽  
Diesel Particulate ◽  
Light Duty ◽  
Light Duty Truck
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