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Emissions and Combustion Characteristics of LPG HCCI Engine  

Yeom, Ki-Tae (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Jang, Jin-Young (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Bae, Choong-Sik (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers / v.14, no.4, 2006 , pp. 149-156 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper investigates the steady state combustion characteristics of LPG homogeneous charge compression ignition(HCCI) engine with variable valve timing(VVT) and dimethyl ether(DME) direct injection, to find out the benefits in exhaust gas emissions. VVT is one of the attractive ways to control HCCI engine. Hot internal residual gas which is controlled by VVT device, makes fuel is evaporated easily, and ignition timing is advanced. Regular gasoline and liquefied petroleum gas(LPG) were used as main fuel and dimethyl ether(DME) was used as ignition promoter in this research. Operating range and exhaust emissions were compared LPG HCCI engine with gasoline HCCI engine. Operating range of LPG HCCI engine was wider than that of gasoline HCCI engine. The start of combustion was affected by the intake valve open(IVO) timing and the ${\lambda}TOTAL$ due to the latent heat of vaporization, not like gasoline HCCI engine. At rich operation conditions, the burn duration of the LPG HCCI engine was longer than that of the gasoline HCCI engine. CAD at 20% and 90% of the mass fraction burned were also more retarded than that of the gasoline HCCI engine. And carbon dioxide(CO2) emission of LPG HCCI engine was lower than that of gasoline HCCI engine. However, carbon oxide(CO) and hydro carbon(HC) emission of LPG HCCI engine were higher than that of gasoline HCCI engine.
Keywords
HCCI(Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition); DME(Di-Methyl Ether); VVT(Variable Valve Timing); LPG(Liquefied Petroleum Gas);
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