• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.358-364
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• 2016

The combustion and exhaust emission characteristics in a spark ignition (SI) engine with various test fuels (bioethanol - gasoline blends) and air-fuel ratio were investigated in this research. To investigate the influence of the excess air ratio and ethanol blends on the combustion characteristics such as the cylinder pressure, rate of heat release (ROHR), and fuel consumption rate were analyzed. In addition, the reduction effects of exhaust emissions such as carbon monoxide (CO), unburned hydrocarbon (HC), and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) were compared with those of neat gasoline fuel under the various excess-air ratios. The results showed that the peak combustion pressures and the ROHR of bioethanol fuel cases were slightly higher than those of gasoline fuel at all test ranges and fuel ratio. As compared with gasoline fuel (G100) at each given excess air ratio, BSFC of bio-ethanol was increased. The CO, HC, NOx emissions of bio-ethanol blends were lower than those of gasoline fuel under overall experimental conditions.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.143-150
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• 2008

EGR(exhaust gas recirculation) is an attractive means of improving the fuel economy of spark ignition engines, as it offers the benefits of charge dilution (lower pumping and cooling losses) while allowing stoichiometric fuelling to be retained for applications using the three-way catalysts. However, the occurrence of excessive cyclic variation with high EGR normally prevents substantial fuel economy improvements from being achieved in practice. Therefore, the optimum EGR rate in Gasoline-Hybrid engine should be carefully determined in order to achieve low fuel consumption and low exhaust emission. In this study, 2 liters gasoline engine with E-EGR system was used to investigate the effects of EGR on fuel economy, combustion stability, engine performance and exhaust emissions. EGR tolerance with load variation was found to be more sensitive than with rpm variation. With optimal EGR rates, the fuel consumption was improved by 5.5% while a combustion stability was guaranteed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.144-152
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• 2006

Split injection has been known to reduce total hydrocarbon (THC) emission level and increase engine performance under certain operating conditions 1, 2). Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) is a common technique adopted for nirtric oxides (NOx) reduction by the dilution of intake air, despite a sacrifice of simultaneous increase in THC and decrease in engine performance3). Thus, using split injection with adequate EGR may improve the emission level of UBHC, NOx and the engine performance compared to that of single-injection with or without EGR cases. The purpose of this study is to investigate the engine performance and emission levels at various engine operating conditions and injection methods when it is applied with EGR. The characteristics of single-injection and split-injection were investigated with various engine loads and EGR rates. The engine speed is changed from 800rpm to 1200rpm to investigate how the combustion characteristics are changing with increasing engine speed.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.16-22
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• 1999

The purpose of this study is to prevent the stick, scuffing, scratch between piston and cylinder, is to contribute the piston design such as piston profile, clearance by calculating reaction force by over-lap of piston skirt, as measuring the temperature distributions of cylinder wall. The experiment has been peformed to obtain data during actual engine operation. Temperature gradient in peripheral and axial distributions of cylinder wall according to torque and speed of engine were measured by use of an 800cc class gasoline engine. The results obtained are summarized as follows ; 1) The temperature of cylinder wall at TDC was about $50{\sim}75^{\circ}C$ higher than temperature of cooling water. 2) The rear side temperature of top dead center was $141^{\circ}C$(1/4 load) in axial distribution, whereas the rear side of midway position temperature was $98^{\circ}C$. 3) The temperature of cylinder wall increased in according to rising temperature of cooling water. 4) The thrust side temperature of cylinder wall was about $15^{\circ}C$ in all load test. 5) The rear side temperature of top dead center was $159^{\circ}C$ (1/2 load) in peripheral distribution, it was about $39^{\circ}C$ higher than thrust side temperature.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.186-198
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• 2003

Small sized engine test stand has been built up and modified to measure the engine performance for 15g class small UAV propulsion systems. An engine performance standard test stand was developed in order to validate the prediction performance and to shoot trobles. The performance data were measured and analyzed for the newly developed gasoline engine.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.378-383
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• 2013

A butterfly throttle valve has been used to control the brake power of an SI engine by controlling the mass flow-rate of intake air in the induction system. However, the valve has a serious effect on the volumetric efficiency of the engine due to the pressure resistance in the induction system. In this study, a new intake air controlling valve named "Variable Geometry Throttle Valve(VGTV)" is proposed to minimize the pressure resistance in the intake system of an SI engine. The design concept of VGTV is on the application of a venturi nozzle in the air flow path. Instead of change of the butterfly valve angle in the airflow field, the throat width of the VGTV valve is varied with the operating condition of an SI engine. In this numerical study, CFD(computational fluid dynamics) simulation technique was incorporated to have an aerodynamics performance analysis of the two air flow controlling systems; butterfly valve and VGTV and compared the results to know which system has lower pressure resistance in the air intake system. From the result, it was found that VGTV has lower pressure resistance than the butterfly valve. Especially VGTV is effective on the low and medium load operating condition of an SI engine. The averaged pressure resistance of VGTV is about 49.0% lower than the value of the conventional butterfly throttle valve.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.723-729
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• 2019

Turbochargers are an effective device to reduce the fuel consumption. In this study, the mass flow rate of pulsating flow in the twin-scroll turbocharger for the gasoline engine of passenger vehicles was measured. Pulsating flow was achieved using a pulse generator and the mass flow rate of the unsteady pulsating flow was analyzed by comparing it with those of the steady flow. The pulse generator consisted of a rotating upper plate and a fixed lower plate. To measure the mass flow rate of unsteady flow, the orifice flow meter equipped with the difference pressure transducer was used. To analyze the low speed performance of the turbocharger, the measurement was carried out in the speed of turbocharger from 60,000rpm to 100,000rpm. The mass flow parameters of the unsteady pulsating flow showed a large difference compared to those of the steady flow. Those of the unsteady flow showed the hysteresis loop surrounding the mass flow parameters of the steady flow and the maximum variation of the mass flow parameters were 5.0 times those of the steady flow. This phenomenon is the result of the filling and emptying the turbine volute space due to pulsating flow.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.1-14
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• 1983

총차량 중량이 15ton이 넘는 대형 트럭의 경우 1970년도에 18%에 불과하던 터보 챠저엔진의 비율은 점차 증가하여 1977년에 42%에 달하였고 1990년도에는 75%까지 증가할 것으로 예상 된다. 또한 현재 터보 챠저엔진의 BMEP는 11.2kg/$cm^{2}$, after cooled엔진은 13.6kg/$cm^{2}$에 이르나 앞으로는 after cooled엔지의 BMEP는 13-17kg/$cm^{2}$로 증대할 것이다. 그러나 터보 챠저엔진의 최대의 단점은 저속에서의 낮은 boost압력과 고속에서의 over boost압력을 갖는다는 것이나, 현재까지는 뚜렷한 해결책을 찾지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 1980년대에는 현재 사용되고 있는 터보 챠저나 이를 개선한 고성능 터보챠저를 부 착한 엔진이나 after cooled엔진이 주로 사용될 것으로 보인다. 앞으로 터보 챠저가 대형트럭용 엔진에 더욱 확대 사용되고 또 소형 디이젤 엔진이나 가솔린 엔진에서도 이용되기 위해서는 (1) 저속에서의 boost압력 증대 (2) 압력비의 증대 (3) 압축기 사용 flow range의 확대 (4) 소형 터보 챠저의 개발 등이 수반되어야 하며 이외에도 배기가스의 효율적인 에너지전달, 콤푸레샤 효율의 증대, 굉음의 감소, 저렴한 터보 챠저 및 after cooler의 개발, 터보 챠저의 소형화 등이 이루어져야 할 것이다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12b
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• pp.593-595
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• 2011

본 논문은 전산해석을 통하여 일반적으로 가솔린엔진에 적용되는 오일분리기의 성능을 분석하였다. 현재 상용화된 제품을 해석한 결과 Labyrinth부분에서는 포집 능력이 거의 없는 것을 확인하였다. 오일입자 포집효율이 전체적으로 분포되지 않고 5개의 작은 홀이 있는 격판 부분에서만 집중적으로 나타나는 것을 확인하였다. 또한, 일반적인 Cyclone형태의 오일분리기보다 압력강하량이 높은 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 연구논문집
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• s.23
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• pp.63-71
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• 1993

To improve flow in-cylinder flow in a 2-valve gasoline engine, various geometries of combustion chambers are modified. Air flow rate, swirl and tumble flow are measured and analyzed by swirl impulse meter and LDV in a steady state flow measuring rig. The results of LDV experiment are compared with the data of swirl impulse meter.