Experimental Studies of the Effect of Air Filter Pressure Drop on the Composition and Emission Changes of a Compression Ignition Internal Combustion Engine

Tadeusz Dziubak and Mirosław Karczewski
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Tadeusz Dziubak: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Military University of Technology, 2 Gen, Sylwestra Kaliskiego St., 00-908 Warsaw, Poland
Mirosław Karczewski: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Military University of Technology, 2 Gen, Sylwestra Kaliskiego St., 00-908 Warsaw, Poland

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 13, 1-31

Abstract: This paper presents an experimental evaluation of the effect of air filter pressure drop on the composition of exhaust gases and the operating parameters of a modern internal combustion Diesel engine. A literature analysis of the methods of reducing the emission of toxic components of exhaust gases from SI engines was conducted. It has been shown that the air filter pressure drop, increasing during the engine operation, causes a significant decrease in power output and an increase in fuel consumption, as well as smoke emission of Diesel engines with the classical injection system with a piston (sectional) in-line injection pump. It has also been shown, on the basis of a few literature studies, that the increase in the resistance of air filter flow causes a change in the composition of car combustion engines, with the effect of the air filter pressure drop on turbocharged engines being insignificant. A programme, and conditions of tests, on a dynamometer of a modern six-cylinder engine with displacement V ss = 15.8 dm 3 and power rating 226 kW were prepared, regarding the influence of air filter pressure drop on the composition of exhaust gases and the parameters of its operation. For each technical state of the air filter, in the range of rotational speed n = 1000–2100 rpm, measurements of exhaust gas composition and emission were carried out, as well as measurements and calculations of engine-operating parameters, namely that of effective power. An increase in the pressure drop in the inlet system of a modern Diesel truck engine has no significant effect on the emissions of CO, CO 2 , HC and NO x to the atmosphere, nor does it cause significant changes in the degree of smoke opacity of exhaust gases in relation to its permissible value. An increase in air filter pressure drop from value Δ p f = 0.580 kPa to Δ p f = 2.024 kPa (by 1.66 kPa) causes a decrease in the maximum filling factor value from η υ = 2.5 to η υ = 2.39, that is by 4.5%, and a decrease in maximum power by 8.8%.

Keywords: internal combustion engines; air filter pressure drop; engine power; exhaust components; emission of toxic exhaust components (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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