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http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/scs.2022.43.5.523

Performance and heat transfer analysis of turbochargers using numerical and experimental methods  

Pakbin, Ali (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kashan Branch, Islamic Azad University)
Tabatabaei, Hamidreza (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kashan Branch, Islamic Azad University)
Nouri-Bidgoli, Hossein (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kashan Branch, Islamic Azad University)
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Steel and Composite Structures / v.43, no.5, 2022 , pp. 523-532 More about this Journal
Abstract
Turbocharger technology is one of the ways to survive in a competitive market that is facing increasing demand for fuel and improving the efficiency of vehicle engines. Turbocharging allows the engine to operate at close to its maximum power, thereby reducing the relative friction losses. One way to optimally understand the behavior of a turbocharger is to better understand the heat flow. In this paper, a 1.7 liter, 4 cylinder and 16 air valve gasoline engine turbocharger with compressible, viscous and 3D flow was investigated. The purpose of this paper is numerical investigation of the number of heat transfer in gasoline engines turbochargers under 3D flow and to examine the effect of different types of coatings on its performance; To do this, modeling of snail chamber and turbine blades in CATIA and simulation in ANSYS-FLUENT software have been used to compare the results of turbine with experimental results in both adiabatic and non-adiabatic (heat transfer) conditions. It should be noted that the turbine blades are modeled using multiple rotational coordinate methods. In the experimental section, we simulated our model without coating in two states of adiabatic and non-adiabatic. Then we matched our results with the experimental results to prove the validation of the model. Comparison of numerical and experimental results showed a difference of 8-10%, which indicates the accuracy and precision of numerical results. Also, in our studies, we concluded that the highest effective power of the turbocharged engine is achieved in the adiabatic state. We also used three types of SiO2, Sic and Si3N4 ceramic coatings to investigate the effect of insulating coatings on turbine shells to prevent heat transfer. The results showed that SiO2 has better results than the other two coatings due to its lower heat transfer coefficient.
Keywords
ceramic coating; engine power; heat transfer; turbocharger;
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