• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.32-38
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• 2017

The common rail diesel engine used in this study uses mechanically driven camshaft for the operation of intake and exhaust valves, and the timing of valve opening and closing is fixed according to the operating conditions of the vehicle. However, the electric generator engine operates at a constant speed and partial load. Therefore, in order to optimize the design of common rail diesel engine for power generation, the characteristics of diesel combustion and emissions according to the change of valve timing were examined and calculated in terms of fuel economy. The valve timing of the diesel engine influenced the combustion characteristics by changing the intake and exhaust flow and it was considered that the fuel efficiency of the generator could be improved.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.58-64
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• 2016

The main engine of a vehicle is used an common rail diesel engine for improving the efficiency of the whole load area. However, the generator engines is still used mechanical fuel injection valve drive cams. In addition, most of generator engines is applied a part-load operation of less than 50%. Therefore, diesel engine of vehicle set at 100% load is necessary to readjust in order to perform efficient operation because of part-load operation. In this study, the objective is to report the results of the part-load fuel consumption improvement by injection timing readjust to identify the operational characteristics of a generator engine currently operated in the facilities.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.107-114
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• 2014

This paper proposes a common rail pressure control algorithm for passenger car diesel engines. For handling the parameter-varying characteristics of common rail systems, the quantitative feedback theory (QFT) is applied to the design of a robust rail pressure control algorithm. The driving current of the pressure control valve and the common rail pressure are used as the input/output variables for the common rail system model. The model parameter uncertainty ranges are identified through experiments. Rail pressure controller requirements in terms of tracking performance, robust stability, and disturbance rejection are defined on a Nichols chart, and these requirements are fulfilled by designing a compensator and a prefilter in the QFT framework. The proposed common rail pressure control algorithm is validated through engine experiments. The experimental results show that the proposed rail pressure controller has a good degree of consistency under various operating conditions, and it successfully satisfies the requirements for reference tracking and disturbance rejection.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.49-54
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• 2018

The common rail diesel engine used in this study is a remanufactured waste engine. The fuel injection timing of the waste engine is set to be suitable for the operating conditions of the vehicle. However, the engine of a generator is operated at a constant speed and mainly at partial load. Therefore, it is necessary to change the fuel injection timing suitable for the power generation engine, and the cost and the time required for such change must be minimized as much as possible. As a result of the analysis, it was confirmed that the fuel efficiency improves according to the fuel injection timing suitable for the engine for the generator, thereby increasing the performance and fuel efficiency.

• Journal of ILASS-Korea
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.30-37
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• 2007

Dimethyl ether (DME) as an alternative fuel for compression ignition engine was investigated by measuring spray development processes, injection rate profiles, engine performance, and exhaust emission characteristics. The results of DME fueled engine were compared with those obtained by fueled with diesel. The experimental results showed that DME has approximately 0.03ms shorter injection delay and higher maximum injection rate than those of diesel fuel at a constant injection pressure of 50MPa. The spray visualization indicates that DME has shorter spray tip penetration due to its low density and faster evaporation. The combustion characteristics of DME operated engine provided faster ignition delay and three times shorter combustion duration. It is believed that the better evaporation and atomization characteristic of DME contributes the faster combustion. At all operating condition, soot emission was not detected due to the clean combustion of DME.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.69-76
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• 2001

VCO nozzle is devised to minimize the HC emission and has been applied on some HSDI diesel engines. But it is not well reported whether VCO nozzle would be advantageous over SAC nozzle in a small HSDI diesel engine. In this paper it is presented that characteristics of VCO and SAC nozzle under common rail fuel injection system and their effects on the performance in a small HSDI diesel engine.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.69-74
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• 2003

An experimental feasibility study of the E3.9 engine with CP3.3 and EDC7C was conducted to understand the initial performance and the possibility for EURO-III regulation. ID cycle simulation for concept study was conducted using the BOOST. Also, some basic investigations through such various parameters as injection timing and rail pressure have been carried out to find the feasibility on EURO-III ESC mode. Based on the results, the feasibility of the E3.9 engine for EURO-III characteristics such as performance, emissions, and fuel economy was demonstrated.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.9-15
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• 2004

The characteristics of combustion and emissions were investigated in a single cylinder DI diesel engine equipped with a common rail injection system. This study presents an experimental study of the effect of engine speed, injection timing, injection pressure and pilot injection timing on the combustion and exhaust emissions. The engine speeds were 1000 and 2000rpm and the corresponding injection pressures were 50 and 100MPa. Experimental results show that NOx emissions decrease with retarded injection timing, while HC and CO emissions increases. Higher injection pressure increases NOx with lower soot emissions. For the case with the pilot injection prior to main injection, the ignition delay is shortened and the premixed combustion ratio decreases. Also NOx and soot emissions are decreased with increase of pilot injection advance.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.44-49
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• 2016

This paper presents characteristics of diesel combustion and emissions according to adoption of various combustion chamber geometry. In order to suggest suitable combustion chamber geometry of the common rail diesel engine for electric generative use, 5 type of geometry chamber was found performance for combustion chamber to respond fuel efficiency. Combustion chamber geometry affects combustion characteristics due to change target area of spray in the combustion chamber and the main factor was the bowl aspect ratio of combustion chamber. Using the results of simulation, the effects of the variable combustion chamber can be improved the fuel efficiency for electric generation.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.252-258
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• 2009

Engine bench tests has been done on a common-rail diesel engine with bio-diesel fuel to study effects of B100 and B20 on output power, fuel consumption and emissions. Test results show that B100 and B20 could reduce PM, HC, CO emission and smoke, but power decrease, fuel consumption increase and NOx increase obviously, B100 reduce PM and DS with $50%{\sim}70%$ and $80%{\sim}85%$ compared with diesel fuel, while B20 reduce PM and DS with $25%{\sim}35%$ and $30%{\sim}40%$. NOx of B100 and B20 increase $5%{\sim}20%$ compare to diesel.