A study of spray strategies on improvement of engine performance and emissions reduction characteristics in a DME fueled diesel engine

Hyung Jun Kim, Su Han Park, Kwan Soo Lee and Chang Sik Lee

Energy, 2011, vol. 36, issue 3, 1802-1813

Abstract: This paper investigated the impact of injection angle and advance injection timing on combustion, emission, and performance characteristics in a dimethyl ether (DME) fueled compression ignition engine through experimentation on spray behaviors and the use of numerical methods. To achieve this aim, a visualization system and two injectors with different injection angles were used to analyze spray characteristics. The combustion, emission, and performance characteristics were analyzed by numerical methods using a detailed chemical kinetic DME oxidation model. Each of five injection angles and timings were selected to examine the effect of injection angle and timing. It was revealed that the injected spray with narrow injection angles was impinged on the bottom wall after the SOI of BTDC 60°, and most of the fuel spray and evaporation with the wide injection angles had a distribution at the crevice region when the injection timing was advanced. In addition, NOx emissions at the SOI of BTDC 20° and TDC had higher values, and the soot emission quantities were extremely small. The narrow injection angles had good performance at the advanced injection timing, and the injection timing over a range of BTDC 40–20° showed superiority in performance characteristics.

Keywords: Emissions reduction characteristics; Injection angle; Injection timing; DME fueled CI engine; Combustion characteristics; Emission characteristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2010.12.026

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