• 산업기술연구
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• 제26권A호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2006

As an automobile fuel, LPG has many environmental advantages compared to gasoline or diesel. However, current LPG engine which is provided with LPG fuel as gas form has lower power and worse fuel efficiency than gasoline engine. These problems of low power and bad fuel efficiency come from lower volumetric efficiency. Also there is a new rising problem of high failure ratio in an engine emission test. Although there are many factors which affect engine performance of exhaust gas emission, one believes that the fact that ECM of gasoline engine is used for LPG engine when retrofitting gasoline engine to LPG engine is one of the main problems, which lower engine power and emit more noxious gas due to wrong ignition timing. To solve these problems, one studied the effects of ignition timing on the exhaust gas to find out the optimum condition of ignition timing. The experimental results show that noxious exhaust gas is reduced and engine power is increased if the optimum control of ignition timing is applied in accordance to the revolution speed of engine.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.122-129
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• 1996

The spark timing is one of major parameters to the engine performance and emissions. The ECU controls the spark timing based on preset values, which are functions of load and speed, in most of today's automotive SI engine. In this system, the preset spark timing can be different from optimum value due to the deviations from mass production, aging effects and so on. In the present study, a control logic is investigated for real time adaptation of spark timing to optimal value. It has been found that crank angle of miximum cylinder pressure is one of the appropriate parameters to estimate the optimum spark timing throught experiment. It has also been observed for spark timing convergence by variation of engineering model factors. The simulation program including engineering model for cycle by cycle variation of combustion is developed for surveying spark timing control logic. It is also shown that simulation results reflect experiment outputs and reasonableness of spark timing control logic for crank angle of maximum cylinder pressure.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.63-68
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• 2003

The purpose of this study was to investigate reduction of exhaust gas temperature in LPG conversion engine from diesel. A conventional diesel engine was modified to a LPG(Liquified Petroleum Gas) engine that diesel fuel injection pump was replaced by the LPG fuel system. The research was peformed with measurement of exhaust gas temperature by varying spark ignition timing, air-fuel ratio, compression ratio, EGR ratio and different compositions of butane and propane. The major conclusion of this work were followed. (i) Exhaust gas temperature was decreased and power was increased with the advanced spark ignition timing. (ii) Exhaust gas temperature was decreased with lean and rich air-fuel ratio. (iii)Exhaust gas temperature was decreased and power was increased with the higher compression ratio. (iv) Engine power and exhaust temperature were not influenced by varied butane/propane fuel compositions. (v) Finally, one of the important parameters in reduction of exhaust gas temperature is spark ignition timing among the parameters in this study.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.191-198
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• 1998

In this study, the effects of water vapor in inlet air, spark advance and fuel type in the spark ignition engine were investigated through the experiments of combustion and flame arriving pattern analysis using ionization probe. The results of flame propagation experiment using ionization probe show that the flame which ignited from spark plug located at the center of the combustion chamber propagated faster in exhaust side than in intake side due to the mixture flow motion inducted into combustion chamber from intake tumble port at all conditions. And as the partial vapor pressure increased, the flame propagation became slower in all direction. Especially effects were greater for intake side than the exhaust side.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.85-90
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 점화 위치 및 시간에 따른 점화 지연 및 연소 불안정에 미치는 영향을 관찰하는 것이 목표이다. 산화제는 기체 산소를 사용하였고 연료는 액체 케로신을 사용하였다. 점화 지연 및 연소 불안정 정도를 관찰하기 위해 압력 트랜스듀서를 이용하여 정압을 측정하였다. 모든 경우의 점화기 작동시기를 제외한 점화 시퀀스는 동일하게 설정하였고 점화 시간은 25 ms 간격으로 설정하였다. 점화 시간이 늦어질수록 초기 압력 피크값과 점화 지연 시간이 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 점화 위치가 분사기로부터 멀어질수록 초기 압력 피크 이후 불안정한 화염 발달 구간이 존재하였다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.90-96
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• 2005

The improvement of combustion stability is very important because it is closely related to the exhaust emission concentrations as well as the fuel consumption during the cold start of SI engine. In our previous studies, the spark and exhaust valve timings were retarded individually from the baseline case to increase the exhaust gas temperature far fast warmup of a close-coupled catalyst. In the study, it was found that combustion stability during cold start becomes worse when the valve timing is retarded from the baseline conditions. The spark and valve timings were simultaneously changed from the baseline conditions to find out the variation of combustion stability during cold start of an Sl engine. Through the study. retarded spark timing by $5^{\circ}$ CA helps improvement of $COV_{imep}$ by $2\%$ and $15^{\circ}C$ increase of exhaust temperature. Retarded exhaust valve timing makes the exhaust gas temperature increase by $30^{\circ}C$, but it also deteriorates the $COV_{imep}$ by $1\%$.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.22-31
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• 1993

Spark-ignition engine knock is affected by engine operating conditions such as engine speed, spark timing and intake air temperature. In this study the effect of intake air temperature on knock characteristics was studied experimentally using a 4-cylinder carburetor spark-ignition engine. The cylinder pressure data at 2000rpm were taken for intake air temperature range of $30^{\circ}C$ to $80^{\circ}C$ with $10^{\circ}C$ interval. And 80 consecutive cycles were taken at each experimental condition. As the same spark timing, as the intake air temperature increased by $50^{\circ}C$, the mean knock intensity increased about 20kPa. This effect corresponds to that of spark timing advance of 3 crank angle degrees.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.205-212
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• 1998

In this study, the effects of water vapor in inlet air on combustion efficiency, general performance, knock characteristics and emission gas concentration were investig- ated through the experiments of combustion and vibration analyses, emission gas analysis by changing water vapor quantity in inlet air with temperature and humidity auto control unit. With partial vapor pressure increase, the brake torque at wide open throttle status decreased and the average ignition delay angle increased, IMEP (indicated mean effective pressured using the integral and 3rd derivatives of filtered cylinder pressure as knock intensity, which matched well with the method of frequency power spectrum of block vibration signal. Water vapor in intake air had influence on the spark knock sensitivity. With the increase of water vapor content in intake air NOx emission was decreased and HC emission was increased.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 제36회 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.2043-2045
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• 2005

현재 점화코일은 소형화 및 친환경성을 위해 에폭시 몰딩 절연층으로 변화되었다. 그러나 에폭시 몰딩으로 변환됨에 따라 점화코일 내부 절연층에 대한 절연진단 및 노화에 대한 정확한 진단의 어려움으로 적절한 교체시기를 예측하기 더욱 어려워졌다. 그로 인해 점화장치부분에 대한 예기치 못한 사고는 대형사고 유발을 초래할 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 비파괴검사의 일종인 부분방전을 이용한 열화검출을 연구하기 위해 열화에 따른 위상각-방전전하량-방전빈도수의 분포 특성을 조사하였다. 또한 방전 발생의 분포가 동일 조건에서도 매우 불규칙성을 가지고 있으므로 데이터의 정량화를 위해 불규칙적인 통계처리를 위한 와이블 분포를 사용하여 기기의 고장시간예측을 조사하였다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.34-41
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• 2021

국내에서 사용되는 천연가스가 저열량화 되면서 발생할 수 있는 문제점에 대응하기 위해서는 국내 산업용 가스기기에 미칠 수 있는 문제점을 사전에 파악하고, 이를 기반으로 에너지의 효율적인 사용을 위한 대응방안이 선행되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 EURO-6 규제를 대응하는 희박연소방식의 천연가스 엔진을 이용할 경우, 저열량 가스의 도입으로 인한 엔진 출력성능과 효율의 저하 문제를 해결하기 위해, 실험을 토대로 한 구체적인 제어방안과 결과를 제시하고자 하였다. 전부하 운전조건인 1,400 rpm의 엔진 회전수에서 스로틀이 전부 개방된 전부하 조건과 정격운전조건의 엔진회전수인 2,100 rpm, 450 Nm의 토크 조건에서 점화시기로 대표되는 제어변수에 의한 개선효과 확인을 위해, 각 가스연료에 대해서 점화시기를 변경하여 열효율 및 배출가스특성을 파악하고 최적화하였다. 전부하조건에서 토크를 기준으로 가장 낮은 값을 보이는 순수메탄의 경우 기준 조건에서 약 2 CAD 정도 점화시기를 진각하면 NOx 배출의 큰 증가 없이 토크를 보상할 수 있다.