scholarly journals Compressed Natural Gas Direct Injection (Spark Plug Fuel Injector)

Natural Gas ◽  
10.5772/9851 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taib Iskandar
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taib Iskandar Mohamad ◽  
Ali Yusoff ◽  
Shahrir Abdullah ◽  
Mark Jermy ◽  
Matthew Harrison ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 315 ◽  
pp. 793-798
Author(s):  
Taib Iskandar Mohamad ◽  
How Heoy Geok

The combustion characteristics of compressed natural gas (CNG) in a direct microchannel-injection engine under various operating conditions were investigated. In this study, a novel idea for direct CNG microchannel injection was realized with spark plug fuel injector (SPFI). It is a device developed to convert engine to CNG direct injection (DI) operation with minimal cost and technical simplicity. It was installed and tested on a Ricardo E6 single cylinder engine with compression ratio of 10.5:1 without modification on the original engine structure. The engine test was carried out under various operation conditions at 1100 rpm. Burning rates of CNG were measured using normalized combustion pressure method by which the normalized pressure rise due to combustion is equivalent to the mass fraction burned (MFB) at the specific crank angle. The results showed that the MFB of CNG direct injection is substantially faster but initially slower than the ones of port injection. The optimal fuel injection and ignition timings are 190 °CA ATDC and 25 °CA BTDC respectively. The optimal injection pressure was 6 MPa. Combustion durations were not changed with different injection pressures but ignition delay was affected. There was no direct correlation between injection pressure and ignition delay which is most probably due to the effect of charge flow difference. Changing mixture stoichiometry affects the magnitude of ignition delay. Combustion duration, on the other hand increases with leaner mixture.


Energy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
pp. 117173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeongwoo Lee ◽  
Cheolwoong Park ◽  
Jongwon Bae ◽  
Yongrae Kim ◽  
Sunyoup Lee ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 505-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmisyah Ahmad Jalaludin ◽  
Shahrir Abdullah ◽  
Mariyam Jameelah Ghazali ◽  
Bulan Abdullah ◽  
Nik Rosli Abdullah

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 1493-1519
Author(s):  
Abhishek Y Deshmukh ◽  
Carsten Giefer ◽  
Dominik Goeb ◽  
Maziar Khosravi ◽  
David van Bebber ◽  
...  

Direct injection of compressed natural gas in internal combustion engines is a promising technology to achieve high indicated thermal efficiency and, at the same time, reduce harmful exhaust gas emissions using relatively low-cost fuel. However, the design and analysis of direct injection–compressed natural gas systems are challenging due to small injector geometries and high-speed gas flows including shocks and discontinuities. The injector design typically involves either a multi-hole configuration with inwardly opening needle or an outwardly opening poppet-type valve with small geometries, which make accessing the near-nozzle-flow field difficult in experiments. Therefore, predictive simulations can be helpful in the design and development processes. Simulations of the gas injection process are, however, computationally very expensive, as gas passages of the order of micrometers combined with a high Mach number compressible gas flow result in very small simulation time steps of the order of nanoseconds, increasing the overall computational wall time. With substantial differences between in-nozzle and in-cylinder length and velocity scales, simultaneous simulation of both regions becomes computationally expensive. Therefore, in this work, a quasi-one-dimensional nozzle-flow model for an outwardly opening poppet-type injector is developed. The model is validated by comparison with high-fidelity large-eddy simulation results for different nozzle pressure ratios. The quasi-one-dimensional nozzle-flow model is dynamically coupled to a three-dimensional flow solver through source terms in the governing equations, named as dynamically coupled source model. The dynamically coupled source model is then applied to a temporal gas jet evolution case and a cold flow engine case. The results show that the dynamically coupled source model can reasonably predict the gas jet behavior in both cases. All simulations using the new model led to reductions of computational wall time by a factor of 5 or higher.


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Ayad ◽  
Swapnil Sharma ◽  
Rohan Verma ◽  
Naeim Henein

Detection of combustion-related phenomena such as misfire, knock, and sporadic preignition is very important for the development of electronic controls needed for the gasoline direct injection engines to meet the production goals in power, fuel economy, and low emissions. This paper applies several types of combustion ionization sensors, and a pressure transducer that directly senses the in-cylinder combustion, and the knock sensor which is an accelerometer that detects the impact of combustion on engine structure vibration. Experimental investigations were conducted on a turbocharged four-cylinder gasoline direct injection engine under operating conditions that produce the above phenomena. One of the cylinders is instrumented with a piezo quartz pressure transducer, MSFI (multi-sensing fuel injector), a stand-alone ion current probe, and a spark plug applied to act as an ion current sensor. A comparison is made between the capabilities of the pressure transducer, ion current sensors, and the knock sensor in detecting the above phenomena. The signals from in-cylinder combustion sensors give more accurate information about combustion than the knock sensor. As far as the feasibility and cost of their application in production vehicles, the spark plug sensor and MSFI appear to be the most favorable, followed by the stand-alone mounted sensor which is an addition to the engine.


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