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Flame Lift Off Engine
Flame Lift Off Engine
Dennis L. Siebers and Brian S. Higgins Sandia National Laboratories Diesel Engine Emission Reduction Workshop San Diego, CA August 20-24, 2000
Sponsors: DOE/OHVT & OAAT Program Managers: Gurpreet Singh & Kathi Epping
Investigate the effects of engine conditions on the evolution of soot in a diesel spray.
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How does our current understanding of diesel combustion change over a wide range of injector and in-cylinder conditions (including EGR)?
Soot
Soot
Database
Complete optical access 108 mm cube Ambient gas pressure: density: temperature: composition: 2 - 35 MPa 4 - 60 kg/m3 600 - 1400 K inert, EGR, air, O2 enriched
Experimental setup.
Combustion Vessel Photodiode
Fuel Injector
ICCD Camera
Soot
Lift-off length defined as the farthest upstream location with a light intensity greater than 8% of full scale (0-255).
Ta = 800 K
1000 K
850 K
1100 K
900 K
1200 K
d [m]
246 180 100
60 50 40
30.0 kg/m3
30 20 10 0 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400
d [m]
246 180 100
30
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20
~ 190 MPa
10
~ 40 MPa
0 200
300
400
500
600
700
800
The quantity of fuel and air premixed prior to combustion is affected by lift-off.
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40
30
Soot
Lift-off Length
20
2 10 x st (%) = 1 + 16 + 1 3 s
10
Lift-off
st
0 200
s+ =
800
300
400
500
600
700
d f tan
The relationship between fuel vaporization and combustion is affected by Pinj and d.
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30 Soot 20 10
Lift-off
Liquid
0 200
300
400
500
600
700
800
Lift-off Length
15%
st =
20%
35 MPa 250 m
. mf
4 P
. . 2 mf
d/ 2
. mf
6 4 2 0
-2 0
80
Lift-off Length
6 4 2 0
30
x 1 + 16 + s
2
s+ =
d f tan
8
d [ m]
Soot incandescence
6 4 2 0 -2 0 1
Engine load conditions (gas temperature and density) and injection parameters (orifice diameter and injection pressure) strongly affect lift-off: resulting in structural changes in diesel combustion. Historically, changes made to meet emissions regulations have contributed to a systematic evolution of diesel combustion processes. How do these changes affect soot formation? What about parameter ranges not considered yet ?