• 한국가스학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.22-27
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• 2021

이 논문은 LPG 자동차용 엔진의 고장사례를 연구하여 자동차 생산에 활용함이 목적이다. 첫번째 사례는 엔진의 실린더헤드를 분해하여 확인한 결과 실린더 헤드의 점화플러그가 조립되는 나사부 마멸때문에 점화플러그의 불꽃이 누설되어 출력이 떨어지면서 엔진의 부조화 현상이 가끔 유발되는 것을 발견하였다.. 두 번째 사례는 캠샤프트의 위치와 크랭크 샤프트 위치를 맞춘 타이밍 마크가 0.5칸 틀어져 엔진의 부조화 현상이 발생된 것을 확인되었다. 세 번째 사례는 실린더 헤드를 분해하여 확인한 결과, 실린더 헤드에 제거되지 못한 이물질이 3번 흡기포트에서 공기 흐름에 따라 이동하다가 흡기밸브의 닫힘시기를 원활하지 못하여 하여 고장이 발생된 것을 확인하였다. 따라서, 자동차 관리자는 철저하게 점검해야 하고, 자동차 생산자는 철저한 품질확보를 통해 고장의 원인을 제거해야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.169-176
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• 2001

The purpose of study is to obtain low-emission and high-efficiency in LPG engine with hydrogen enrichment. The test engine was named heavy-duty variable compression ratio single cylinder engine (VCSCE). The fuel supply system provides LPG/hydrogen mixtures based on same heating value. Various sensors such as crank shaft position sensor (CPS) and hall sensor supply spark timing data to ignition controller. Displacement of VCSCE is $1858.2cm^3$. VCSCE was runned 1400rpm with compression ratio 8. Spark timing was set MBT without knocking. Relative air-fuel ratio(${\lambda}$) of this work was varied between 0.76 and 1.5. As a result, i) Maximum thermal efficiency occurred at ${\lambda}$ value 1.0. It was shown that thermal efficiency was increased approximately 5% with hydrogen enrichment at same ${\lambda}$ value. ii) Engine-out carbon monoxide (CO) emissions were decreased at a great rate under LPG/hydrogen mixture fuelling. iii) Total hydrocarbon (THC) emission was much exhausted in rich zone, same as CO. But THC was exhausted a little bit more in lean zone. iv) Finally, engine-out oxides of nitrogen (NOx) was increased with ${\lambda}$ value 1.0 zone at a greater rate with hydrogen enrichment due to high adiabatic flame temperature.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.12-17
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to analyse and compare the fuel combustion characteristics between LPG and gasoline on SI engine. Pressures of combustion chamber were measured on the state that engine speed was 2000rpm and BMEP was 2.0bar And we measured pressures of combustion chamber regarding variation of the MBT We could know that the combustion pressure of LPG fuel use engine is appeared lower than that of gasoline fuel use engine. At the lean mixture ratio area we could blow that Ignition timings are pulled very forward, and ignition timing of LPG fuel is advanced to $5\sim12^{\circ}$ CA than gasoline fuel. We learned that the value of coefficient of variation of LPG fuel is higher than gasoline fuel.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.46-52
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• 2004

An LPG engine (KL6i) for heavy duty vehicle has been developed using liquid phase LPG injection (LPLi) system, which has regarded as one of next generation LPG fuel supply systems. For the KL6i engine, lean burn technology was introduced to minimize the thermal loading and NOx emissions due to an increase of the engine power. In this work, injection timing and piston bowl shape were investigated for the stabilization of lean burn characteristics. Experimental results reveals that fuel stratification induced by these parameters is most effective strategy to extend lean combustion limit in the LPLi system.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제31권8호
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• pp.672-679
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• 2007

The combustion characteristics of a liquefied petroleum gas-di-methyl ether (LPG-DME) compression ignition engine was investigated under homogeneous charge and stratified charge conditions. LPG was used as the main fuel and injected into the combustion chamber directly. DME was used as an ignition promoter and injected into the intake port. Different LPG injection timings were tested to verify the combustion characteristics of the LPG-DME compression ignition engine. The combustion was divided into three region which are homogeneous charge, stratified charge, and diffusion flame region according to the injection timing of LPG. The hydrocarbon emission of stratified charge combustion was lower than that of homogeneous charge combustion. However, the carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide emission of stratified charge combustion were slightly higher than those of the homogeneous charge region. The indicated mean effective pressure was reduced at stratified charge region, while it was almost same level as the homogeneous charge combustion region at diffusion combustion region. The start of combustion timing of the stratified charge combustion and diffusion combustion region were advanced compared to the homogeneous charge combustion. It attributed to the higher cetane number and mixture temperature distribution which locally stratified. However, the knock intensity was varied as the homogeneity of charge was increased.

• 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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• 제15권3호
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• pp.99-105
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• 2007

Currently, BLDC fuel pump was applied on LPi vehicle using 3rd fuel supply system as liquified phase LPG injection method had already shown better performance than others. Its cost, however, is rather expensive because of drawbacks such as complicated structure, a fault of localization of system. In this work, demonstration system for a developed turbine type fuel pump to replace BLDC system was setup and investigated. This study results that fuel mass flow rate of turbine type pump and injection performance of injector were better compared to BLDC type. Comparing flow rate of summer LPG with that of winter LPG, the flow rate decreased about 25% using winter LPG. Performance applying turbine type LPi fuel pump to engine is confirmed.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.114-120
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• 2006

The basic effects of hydrogen addition for engine performance and emission were investigated in single cylinder research engine. Seven commercial injectors were tested to choose a suitable injector for hydrogen injection prior to its engine implementation. The hydrogen fuel leakage and flow rate were evaluated for each injector and KN3-1(Keihin, CO.) showed the best performance for hydrogen fuel. At the higher excess air ratio(${\lambda}=1.7$, 2.0), the better combustion stability was found with hydrogen addition even though its effect was small at lower excess air ratio (${\lambda}=1.0$, 1.3). Stable operation of the engine was even guaranteed at ${\lambda}=2.0$, if the amount of hydrogen gas was near 15% of total energy. In the lean region, ${\lambda}>1.3$, thermal efficiency was improved slightly while it was not clearly observed at ${\lambda}=1.0$, 1.3. It is considered that, in some cases, high temperature environment due to hydrogen combustion caused further heat loss to surroundings. Except for ${\lambda}=1.0$, with larger amount of hydrogen addition, CO was reduced drastically but it was emitted more at the leaner region. Nitric oxides(NOx) was increased a little more with hydrogen addition at ${\lambda}=1.0$, 1.3. However, at ${\lambda}>1.3$ its relative amount of emission was low. In addition, the amount of NOx was continuously decreased with hydrogen addition, but, at ${\lambda}=2.0$ the amount of NOx was lowered to 1/100 of that of ${\lambda}=1.0$. THC emission was significantly increased as air/fuel ratio was raised to leaner region due to misfire and partial burn.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2022

디젤엔진의 대체 연료로 연구되고 있는 청정연료인 DME는 디젤엔진의 중요한 문제 중 하나인 배기가스를 줄일 수 있으며, 세탄가와 산소함유량이 매우 높다. DME는 LPG와 유사한 특성을 가진 연료로 LPG 유통 인프라를 사용할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 플런저식 고압펌프의 성능평가를 위해 토출된 질량유량에 대한 기초 데이터베이스 구축을 목표로 하였으며, 커먼레일 압력과 모터 회전속도를 변화시켜 플런저식 고압펌프의 질량유량을 분석하였다. 실험 조건은 커먼레일 압력을 300 bar, 400 bar, 500 bar 로 변경하였고, 모터 회전 속도를 300 rpm에서 1000 rpm 으로 증가시켰다. 실험 결과 두 경우 모두 질량유량이 증가하였다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.24-29
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• 2022

이 논문은 LPG 자동차의 캠축베어링 시일의 오일누설, 컴퓨터커넥터 핀 손상에 의한 접촉불량, 베이퍼라이저 배부불량으로 인한 고장사례에 대하여 현상을 분석, 연구한 것이다. 첫 번째 사례는 실린더 헤드를 분해하여 확인한 결과 타이밍 시스템에서 가까운 엔진의 흡기캠축의 베어링과 시일의 조립부 손상으로 인해 이 부위로 엔진오일이 누설되는 것을 확인하였다. 두 번째 사례는 엔진컴퓨터로 공급되는 자동차의 시동을 제어하는 전원선의 커넥터 핀이 손상되어, 전원이 공급되지 않아 시동이 꺼진 것을 확인하였다. 세 번째 사례는 베이퍼라이저 내부에 이물질의 퇴적으로 인해 가스의 흐름이 원활하지 못하여 엔진의 부조화현상이 발생되었다. 결국, 베이퍼라이저에서 믹서로 적은 양의 가스를 공급하게 되고, 믹서의 스로틀 열림량을 제어하는 컴퓨터는 그 열림량만큼 공기를 공급하게 됨으로써 연소실에서 혼합기는 희박한 상태가 되어 엔진의 적정출력을 내지 못하는 것을 확인하였다. 따라서, 자동차가 최적의 운전조건이 될 수 있도록 자동차관련 시스템의 관리를 철저하게 해야한다.