• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.87-94
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• 2003

Recently, LPLi(Liquied-Phase LPG injection) system is studied for the new stringent emission regulations. But , there are some problems to be solved such as injector tip icing and fuel leakage for LPLi system development. In this paper, the icing problem near injector tip which leads to difficulty of accurate A/F control was studied and reported. Icing of injector tip and port wall was observed at all the cases in this study regardless of injection duration and angle, air humidity change. The spray angle of LPLi was observed approximately two times wider than that of Gasoline injection. This makes the LPLi spray collide with intake port around injector tip. Temperature of the wetted area was decreased and icing of water vapor contained in intake air because of evaporation of the fuel film. The ice of the injector tip and port wall is also affected by the materials related to heat transfer.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.32-37
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• 2024

Macroscopic visualization of non-evaporating sprays was experimentally conducted to investigate spray tip penetration and spray angle under low-density conditions, corresponding to an early injection strategy. Furthermore, injectors with varying injection angles (146° and 70°) and numbers of holes (8 and 14) were employed to examine the impact of injector configuration. Compared to the baseline injector, 8H146, which has 8 holes and a 146° injection angle, the spray tip penetration of the 8H70 injector was found to be longer. This can be attributed to higher momentum due to a smooth flow field between the sac volume and the nozzle inlet, which is located closer to the injector tip centerline. The increase in velocity led to intense turbulence generation, resulting in a wider spray angle. Conversely, the spray tip penetration of the 14H70 injector was shorter than that of the 8H70 injector. The competition between increased velocity and decreased nozzle diameter influenced the spray tip penetration for the 14H70 injector; the increase in momentum, previously observed for the 8H70 injector, contributed to an increase in spray tip penetration, but a decrease in nozzle diameter could lead to a reduction in spray tip penetration. The spray angle for the 14H70 injector was similar to that of the 8H146 injector. Moreover, injection rate measurements revealed that the slope for a narrow injection angle (70°) was steeper than that for a wider injection angle during the injection event.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2004

As air pollution has become an important issue across the world, studies of clean fuel are on going to reduce combustion emissions. One example is development of the LPLi(Liquefied Phase LPG injection) engine. Some problems are occurred during development. One of the problems is icing phenomenon at injector tip due to evaporation potential heat when liquid LPG is injected. If the Icing is raised at injector tip or injector inserting hole, it disturbs fuel injection. And if the ice particles are inducted into cylinder, it brings problems associated with control of emission and air/fuel ratio. In order to solve the problems, a rig system was set up and observed Icing of injector tip. Engine test was carried out for visualization of injector tip icing and its effects on combustion and emissions.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.1194-1205
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• 2005

The common-rail injection systems, as a new diesel injection system for passenger car, have more degrees of freedom in controlling both the injection timing and injection rate with the high pressure. In this study, a piezo-driven injector was applied to a high pressure common-rail type fuel injection system for the control capability of the high pressure injector's needle and firstly examined the piezo-electric characteristics of a piezo-driven injector. Also in order to analyze the effect of injector's needle response driven by different driving method on the injection, we investigated the diesel spray characteristics in a constant volume chamber pressurized by nitrogen gas for two injectors, a solenoid-driven injector and a piezo-driven injector, both equipped with the same injection nozzle with sac type and 5-injection hole. The experimental method for spray visualization was based on back-light photography technique by utilizing a high speed framing camera. The macroscopic spray propagation was geometrically measured and characterized in term of the spray tip penetration, spray cone angle and spray tip speed. For the evaluation of the needle response of the above two injectors, we indirectly estimated the needle's behavior with an accelerometer and injection rate measurement employing Bosch's method was conducted. The experimental results show that the spray tip penetrations of piezo­driven injector were longer, on the whole, than that of the solenoid-driven injector. Besides we found that the piezo-driven injector have a higher injection flow rate by a fast needle response and it was possible to control the injection rate slope in piezo-driven injector by altering the induced current.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2006

This study was performed to figure out spray behavior and fuel atomization characteristics of a piezo-driven injector and a solenoid-driven injector in the common-rail injection system under the same design parameters and test conditions. The process of spray injection was visualized by using the spray visualization system composed of a Nd:YAG laser and an ICCD camera. The atomization characteristics were investigated in terms of axial mean velocity, Sauter mean diameter(SMD) and droplet distributions obtained from a phase Doppler particle analyzer system. Compared with solenoid-driven injector, the piezo-driven injector has short injection delay and reaches quickly to the maximum injection value. Spray tip penetration shows some difference, however, spray angle of piezo-driven injector is wider than that of solenoid-driven injector. Sauter mean diameter of piezo-driven type injector is smaller than that of solenoid-driven type.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2007

To suppress the bubble generated in the liquid LPG direct injector is the most important to develop the LPDi engine. It was found in the previous study that bubbling phenomenon in the injector of the LPDi engine is decisively influenced by pressure of fuel and temperature around the injector. Therefore, in this study, the effect on suppressing the bubbling in the LPDi injector by high pressurization of fuel is analyzed and the spray characteristics are also studied. As a result, it is found that the bubbling in the LPDi injector is radically suppressed when the pressure of fuel is over 50MPa. The bubbling is suppressed when the pressure of fuel is over 3MPa if the inserted position of the injector is considered. Also, it is confirmed that the higher the pressure of fuel is the longer spray tip penetration and is the larger spray angle. As the ambient pressure increases, spray tip penetration decreases and spray angle increases due to the increase of drag force.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제47권9호
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• pp.658-664
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• 2019

핀틀 인젝터를 사용하는 액체로켓개발에 있어서 분무특성인 분무각도, 액적크기, 액적의 분포정도는 중요한 요소이다. 세 종류의 다중 홀형 핀틀 팁과 연속형 핀틀 팁을 설계하여 분무실험을 수행하였다. 다중 홀형 인젝터에서 홀 개수에 따른 액적크기는 크게 차이가 없었으며, 홀 개수가 많을수록 액적이 균일하게 분포하였다. 연속형 핀틀은 다중 홀형 핀틀보다 액적의 미립화가 잘 이루어 지고 공간내로 더 고르게 분산되는 것을 확인하였다. 핀틀의 액체분사면적조절을 통한 추력제어는 다중 홀형보다는 면 접촉 닫힘(face-shutoff)이 용이한 연속형 핀틀이 적합하다. 각 핀틀 팁의 TMR에 따른 분무각을 측정하여 특정한 경향성과 그에 해당하는 경험식을 도출하였다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제48권9호
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• pp.703-709
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• 2020

핀틀 인젝터는 LMDE의 인젝터로 채용되어 아폴로 계획의 성공적인 수행에 일조하였으며, 최근 SpaceX 사의 Merlin 엔진으로 다시 조명받고 있는 인젝터의 형태이다. 본 연구에서는 액체산소/기체메탄을 이용하는 500N 급 Lab-Scale 핀틀 인젝터 추력기를 제작하여 연소실험을 수행하였다. 그러나 초기 연소실험은 핀틀 팁의 용융과 낮은 연소효율이라는 문제를 노출하였다. 따라서 이를 해결하기 위하여 전산수치해석을 통한 시뮬레이션을 통해 유동 가이드가 추가된 핀틀 팁의 냉각 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 설계를 채택하였으며, 연소실험을 통해 유동 가이드의 효용성을 확인하였다.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2020

케로신/액체산소를 추진제로 하는 직사각형 2열 오리피스를 갖는 1.5톤급 액체-액체 핀틀 분사기를 설계 및 제작하여 액체로켓엔진의 실운용 조건인 초임계 상태에서 핀틀 분사기의 연소성능 및 연소 안정성 검증 연소시험을 수행하였다. 연소시험결과 연소실 내부의 고혼합비 재순환 영역에서 생성되는 고온의 연소가스에 핀틀 팁이 손상되었다. 핀틀 팁으로 전달되는 열유속 또는 하중에 대한 냉각 성능을 증가시키기 위해 핀틀 분사기 내부에 인서트 노즐을 설치하였다. 연소시험 결과 인서트 노즐의 설치, AR 및 BF가 핀틀 팁 냉각 성능에 큰 영향을 주는 인자로 확인되었다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.1-6
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• 1999

An experimental study was carried out to investigate the global spray behavior and spray characteristics of high-pressure fuel injector in the direct-injection goasoline enginet. The atomization characteristics of fuel spary such as mean droplet size, mean velocity , and velocity distribution were measured by the phase Doppler particle analyzer. The spray tip penetration and spray width were investigated by the result fo visualizaiton experiment. The quantitiative spary characteristics of injector spray were measured under various sparay conditions and ambient pressures. The results of experiment show that the increase in ambient pressure have influence on the spray tip penetration and spray development process. Also, the influence of injection pressure and measuring location on the mean velocity and droplet size distribution were discussed.