The effects of injection timings on the spray and combustion of automobile engines fueled with diesel/methanol under cross and horizontal injection

Pengyun Zhao, Lvmeng Huang, Zhanming Chen, Haibin He, Jie Wu, Long Wang, Xiongbo Duan and Hao Chen

Energy, 2025, vol. 323, issue C

Abstract: In this paper, the spray and combustion characteristics of diesel/methanol under different injection angles (IA) and diesel injection time delay (Δt) are studied on a constant volume combustion chamber using optical diagnosis techniques. The results show that changing the IA and Δt can effectively change the diesel/methanol mixture distribution and achieve both concentration stratification and reactivity stratification. The collision length, collision width, and spray projected area of 90° IA are all greater than those of 180° IA. In addition, increasing Δt promotes the diffusion and evaporation of collision spray, resulting in a larger liquid phase and vapor phase spray projected area. Compared to 90° IA, 180° IA enhances the relative speed and collision strength of the two jets and also reduces the equivalence ratio of the collision jet, thereby inhibiting diesel spontaneous combustion and extending ignition delay. This results in a more intense combustion process, with shorter combustion duration, and lower soot emissions. Furthermore, the increase in Δt additionally allows the diesel methanol collision spray to obtain a longer ignition delay, a shorter combustion duration, a smaller flame area, and less soot emission, all of which can greatly improve the combustion and emission characteristics of an internal combustion engine.

Keywords: Automobile engines; Methanol; Collision spray; Injection angle; Injection timing; Spray and combustion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2025.135857

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