• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.2119-2125
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• 1992

An air-fuel ratio control method is studied to keep the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas in the neighborhood of the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to maximize the conversion efficiency of the three-way catalytic converter. Estimators, which estimate the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas, are proposed using neural networks to overcome the limit of the presently used bang-bang type exhaust gas oxygen sensor. Using these estimators, PI controller for air-fuel ratio control is designed and is experimented for an automobile engine. The proposed controller reduces the variation of air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas from the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio by 50%-75% when compared to the existing controller.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.191-195
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• 2005

Propellant remains as outage at engine shutdown contributes no useful impulse to the rocket and produces an unwanted increase in burnout weight. Minimization of outage, is therfore is a basic consideration in attaining the maximum performance capability of my bipropellant liquid rocket. This paper present the calculation procedures of outage and optimum loading propellant mass. And some control methods and measurement techniques for outage are presented.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.182-188
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• 2008

This paper is to compare the carbon-balanced and liner air-fuel ratio determination methods for alternative fuels. In the previous work, expansion of Eltinge chart, unburned hydrocarbon compensation, comparison of the results from various methods were discussed. It has been also concluded that Eltinge method might be regarded as the most general equation of AFR determination among the existing ones. In the recent years, however, increasing demand for the environmental preservation, including global warming-up protection, and energy conservation lead to introduce the alternative fuel to the internal combustion engine. Therefore, the exact calculations of AFR for these fuels are needed. Especially, for the fuel that contains oxygen, all AFR calculation equations except Eltinge have to be re-formulated. In this paper, the AFR for alternative fuel were calculated by re-formulated carbon balance, accuracy of which was already confirmed, and linear equations, which are newly proposed by statistical method for each fuel. The results show that AFRs based on carbon balance have a little more error compared with gasoline, however, the accuracy is enough for this formula to apply to various fuel. The proposed linear equation also have excellent accuracy below $\lambda=1.2$.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2015.12a
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• pp.131-134
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• 2015

국내 천연가스 열량제도를 현행 표준 열량제 $10,400kcal/Nm^3(43.54MJ/Nm^3)$에서 중간 조정기간을 두고 2012.07.01부터는 최저 $10,100kcal/Nm^3(42.28MJ/Nm^3)$을 유지하고 2015년 이후 $9,800(41.1MJ/Nm^3){\sim}10,600kcal/Nm^3(44.4MJ/Nm^3)$ 열량범위제도로 변경 추진되고 있다. 산업현장에서 열량변동을 측정하여 공연비 제어기술을 개발하고자 60ton Al 용해로에 열량대응기술 개발을 위한 내용으로 열량측정시스템설치 및 열량 값과 연계하여 공연비 제어기술개발연구 내용으로 결과는 다음과 같다. 단순히 표준열량으로 에 맞춰 프로그램된 제어로직에 열량변동에서 검출된 신호를 이용하여 연료보정 값을 추가한 로직을 재구성할 필요가 있다. 이 혀장의 경우는 용탕의 온도가 목표온도 근처까지 올리기가 어려워진 상황으로 주로 공급열량 저열량화에 따른 과잉공기영향으로 온도상승이 어려워 보이며 적절한 공연비로 최적화 되면 이러한 문제가 개선되리라 생각된다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.92-92
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• 2003

대형 위성 발사체를 우주로 발사하기 위해서는 복잡한 추진기관시스템을 정밀하게 제어해야 하며, 이를 위해서는 로켓의 궤적에 따른 추진제 질량과 추력을 적절하게 제어해야 한다. 정확하게 계산된 비행궤도를 따라 로켓을 최종 목표 지점까지 올리는 일은 엔진의 추력과 공연비를 동시에 조절하는 엔진제어기술을 이용하여 가능하게 된다. 추력제어는 엔진시스템에 대한 정확한 이해와 이를 바탕으로 한 추진제 유량 제어를 통해 가능하기 때문에 액체로켓 엔진에 대한 엔진시스템 분석과 해석이 선행되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 향후 연구 대상이 될 엔진시스템의 구성과 추력 및 공연비 제어시스템의 기본 제어 방법을 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.67-72
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• 1993

Wall wetting phenomenon in the intake port of an MPI engine was investigated with different kinds of injectors by an A/F step response test and analysis was done based on the simple wall wetting model to find out a certain correlation between wall wetting and A/F variations. It was found that (1) At fully warmed condition of 90.deg.C water temperature, around 40-60% of injected fuel was wall wetted, (2) At cold condition of 45.deg.C Water temperature, around 68-80% of injected fuel was wall wetted, and (3) A/F variations during acceleration and deceleration were influenced by the wetting area, the fuel droplet size, and the amount of wall wetting fuel.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.80-87
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• 2003

Air partial pressure ratio and inlet air mass flow are influenced by water vapor and gaseous fuel in mixture on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) engines. In this paper, the effects of the water vapor and the gaseous fuel that change the air mass flow and the air-fuel ratio are studied. Effective air mass ratio is defined as the air mass flow divided by mixture mass flow, and also it is applied to the estimation of the inlet air mass flow and the air-fuel ratio. The presence of the gaseous fuel and the water vapor in the mixture reduces the air partial pressure and the effective air mass ratio of the CNG engines. The experimental results for the CNG engine show that estimation of the air-fuel ratio based upon the effective air mass ratio is more accurate than that of a normal mode.

• Ceramist
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.16-28
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• 2001

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.28 no.10
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• pp.1155-1162
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• 2004

This paper is the forth paper of several companion papers which compare the method of Air-Fuel ratio determination. In the previous work, various AFR calculations were performed for various fuels and the results were compared with each other. The comparison, however, were limited to numerical value and estimation of each equation or method was insufficient. In this paper, the overall estimation of the methods was attempted. Also, the method of trouble shooting of instrumentation was presented. Through the estimation of methods, it is concluded that the Eltinge method contains inherently the most perfect thermal dissociation model as far as the exhaust composition is concerned; therefore, this might be regarded as the most general equation of AFR determination among the existing ones. The others might be considered as approximate form. In addition, the mal-distribution factor in Eltinge method is qualitatively equivalent to thermal dissociation chemical equilibrium constant K. Lastly, it is illustrated that all instrumentation error, including the sampling line leakage, can be easily detected through the analyzing the exhaust component on the Eltinge chart.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.28 no.10
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• pp.1147-1154
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• 2004

This paper is the third of several companion papers which compare the method of Air-Fuel ratio determination. In the previous works, Eltinge chart was expanded to arbitrary fuel composition as a reference exhaust composition. The compensation of unburned hydrocarbon in Eltinge chart and comparison of Spindt and Eltinge method were also discussed. In addition to Eltinge and Spindt's one, however, there are many methods which calculate Air-Fuel ratio from exhaust emission. Among these methods, carbon balance and oxygen balance are widely used in practice. In some applications, linear formula from statistical method is being used in the field due to its simplicity and convenience. In this paper, these various methods are evaluated and compared with Eltinge results and new linear formula is proposed for the gasoline fuel. The results show that the corrected carbon balance equation has excellent agreement with Eltinge and Spindt's one. On the other hands, the oxygen-balanced formula has a limitation according to the mixture state and AFR. For gasoline fuel, newly proposed linear equation has good compatibility with Eltinge and Spindt up to AFR 17.