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A Study on Reduction of Exhaust Gas Temperature in Retrofitted LPG Fueled Engine Based Medium-Duty Diesel Engine (중형 디젤을 기초한 LPG엔진에서 배기가스온도 저감 연구)

  • 최경호;조웅래
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.11 no.2
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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.

A Study on Engine Performance of the Ignition Spark Timing Conversion for LPG/Gasoline Bi-fuel Vehicle (LPG / 가솔린 겸용차량의 점화시기 변환에 의한 엔진성능고찰)

  • Chun, Bongjun;Park, Myungho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Mechanical Technology
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2011
  • In a bi-fuel engine using gasoline and LPG fuel, with the current ignition timing for gasoline being used, the optimum performance could not be taken in LPG fuel supply mode. The ignition timing in LPG fuel mode must be advanced much more than that of gasoline mode for the compensation of its higher ignition temperature. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the ignition spark timing conversion influences the engine performance of LPG/Gasoline Bi-Fuel engine. In order to investigate the engine performance during combustion, engine performance are sampled by data acquisition system, for example cylinder pressure, pressure rise rate and heat release rate, while change of the rpm(1500, 2000, 2500) and the ignition timing advance($5^{\circ}$, $10^{\circ}$, $15^{\circ}$, $20^{\circ}$). As the result, between 1500rpm, 2000rpm and 2500rpm, the cylinder pressure and pressure rise rate was increased when the spark ignition was advanced but pressure rise rate at $20^{\circ}$ was smaller value.

A Study for the Improvement of Start Ability and Exhaust Emissions in a Conventional Mixer Type LPG Engine on Cold Start (LPG 엔진의 냉 시동시 시동성 개선 및 배출들 저감을 위한 연구)

  • 김우석;이종화
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.84-92
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    • 2002
  • On the cold start of LPG engine, as the engine temperature has not reached its equilibrium temperature, liquid LPG could not be changed perfectly gaseous LPG, although it was passed to the vaporizer. Liquid and gas mixed fuel could influence starting ability and exhaust emission characteristics of LPG engine. In this study, the vaporization characteristic of liquid LPG was investigated with a conventional vaporizer and the vaporizer with heat source(glow plug) installed at preheated chamber inlet, by using the visualization methods and engine test. According to visualization result, even if the engine coolant temperature was $14^{\circ}C$, liquid fuel was supplied to primary chamber over 25 seconds without vaporizing from preheated chamber in such a conventional vaporizer. However, the vaporizer with heat source do not correspond with that, scarcely had been trim on glow plug when LPG began to vaporize. The effectiveness of heat source could be verified by application to the conventional LPG engine.

Analysis of Cylinder Swirl Flow and Lean Combustion Characteristics of 3rd Generation LPLI(Liquid Phase LPG Injection) Engine (제3세대 LPLI 엔진 연소실내 스월유동 및 희박연소 특성 해석)

  • Kang, Kern-Yong;Lee, Jin-Wook
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.26-33
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    • 2007
  • The intake swirl motion, as one of dominant effects for an engine combustion. is very effective for turbulence enhancement during the compression process in the cylinder of 2-valve engine. Because the combustion flame speed is determined by the turbulence that is mainly generated from the mean flow of the charge air motion in intake port system. This paper describes the experimental results of swirl flow and combustion characteristics by using the oil spot method and back-scattering Laser Doppler velocimeter (LDV) in 2-valve single cylinder transparent LPG engine using the liquid phase LPG injection. For this. various intake port configurations were developed by using the flow box system and swirl ratios for different intake port configurations were determined by impulse swirl meter in a steady flow rig test. And the effects of intake swirl ratio on combustion characteristics in an LPG engine were analyzed with some analysis parameters that is swirl ratio. mean flow coefficient, swirl mean velocity fuel conversion efficiency. combustion duration and cyclic variations of indicated mean effective pressure(IMEP). As these research results, we found that the intake port configuration with swirl ratio of 2.0 that has a reasonable lean combustion stability is very suitable to an $11{\ell}$ heavy-duty LPG engine with liquid phase fuel injection system. It also has a better mean flow coefficient of 0.34 to develope a stable flame kernel and to produce high performance. This research expects to clarify major factor that effects on the design of intake port efficiently with the optimized swirl ratio for the heavy duty LPG engine.

Experimental Study on Fuel Consumptions of LPG Vehicle Depending on the Atmospheric Temperature, Vaporizer Gas Leakage, Engine Oil and Engine Loads (대기온도, 증발기 누출, 엔진오일 및 엔진부하에 따른 LPG 차량의 연비실험에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Chung-Kyun;Lee, Il-Kwon
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2009
  • This paper presents the fuel consumption effects of LPG vehicle depending on the atmospheric temperature, LP gas leakage of vaporizer, viscosity of engine oil and engine load conditions. The fuel consumption test results show that when the temperature of engine temperature rises, the fuel consumption efficiency increases in general. The fuel consumption efficiency for an atmosphere temperature of $24.2^{\circ}C$ is 13.6% high compared to that of $1^{\circ}C$. No leak vaporizer on fuel consumption efficiency is 5.3% high compared to that of the LP gas leak vaporizer. The fuel economy of new engine oils is just 1.1% high compared to that of used oils with a LPG vehicle mileage of 9,500km. This is not an influential factor compared with an atmospheric temperature and a LP gas leakage. The more important factors on the fuel consumption efficiency are driving conditions such as a rapid braking, abrupt start and fast acceleration. The test results indicate that the normal start is 32.3% high compared to that of an abrupt start and the fast acceleration is 10.8% high compared with that of an abrupt start. And the fuel consumption efficiency for a rapid braking is 18.3% higher than that of an abrupt start. These indicate that the driving condition is very important to reduce the fuel consumption rate.

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Fundamental Study on Liquid Phase LPG Injection System for Heavy-Duty Engine (I) (대형엔진용 액상분사식 LPG 연료공급 방식에 대한 기초연구 (1))

  • 김창업;오승묵;강건용
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.85-91
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    • 2001
  • LPG has been well known as a clean alternative fuel for vehicles. As a fundamental study on liquid phase LPG injection (hereafter LPLI) system application to heavy-duty engine, engine output and combustion performance were investigated with various operating conditions using a single cylinder engine equipped with the LPLI system. Experimental results revealed that no problems were occurred in application of the LPG fuel to heavy-duty engine, and that volumetric efficiency and engine output, by 10% approximately, were increased with the LPLI system. It was resulted from the decrease of the intake manifold temperature through liquid phase LPG fuel injection. These results provided an advantage in the decrease of the exhaust gas temperature, in the control of knocking phenomena, spark timing and compression ratio. The LPLI engine could normally operated under $\lambda$=1.5 or EGR 30% condition. The optimized swirl ratio for the heavy duty LPG engine was found around R_s$ = 2.0.

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LPG Spray Behavior Near Injection Nozzle (분사노즐 근처의 LPG 분무거동)

  • Jo, H.C.;Oh, S.W.;Lee, G.H.;Bae, Y.J.;Park, K.H.
    • Journal of ILASS-Korea
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.16-21
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    • 2002
  • Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has been used as motor fuel due to its low emissions and low cost. This study addresses the analysis of the LPG spray behavior near injection nozzle. The LPG spray photographs are compared with sprays of diesel fuel at the same conditions. The LPG spray photos show that the dispersion characteristic depends very sensuously on the ambient pressure soon after injection. The spray angle is very wide in a low ambient pressure condition until the saturated pressure at this test condition, but the angle value is quickly reduced at the condition over the pressure.

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The Deterioration of Lubricants in LPG Engine (LPG엔진에서의 윤활유 열화)

  • 류재곤;문우식
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.100-106
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    • 2000
  • Recently, the population of vehicles using LPG as fuel has been increasing due to relatively low fuel price and low tax. Although gasoline engine oils we usually used to lubricate LPG engines, some troubles such as oil thickening and TBN depletion were found in them under severe operating condition. In order to investigate the deterioration mechanism of lubricants in LPG engine, field trials were performed. The results from the field trials showed that the deterioration of oils in LPG engine is different from that in normal gasoline engine. LPG engine oil was deteriorated mainly through oxidation and nitration at high temperature rather than contamination of fuel combustion products.

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Study on the Estimation of Knock Position in a LPG Engine with Ion-probe Head Gasket (LPG엔진에서 이온프로브를 이용한 노킹 발생 위치 추정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Joung-Won;Choi, Hoi-Myung;Cho, Hoon;Hwang, Seung-Hwan;Min, Kyoung-doug
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.42-48
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    • 2003
  • LPG has been a broad concern of pro-environmental alternative fuel for vehicles. Recently, the new Liquid Phase LPG Injection(LPLI) system extends the limit of power of LPG engine and gives a chance to substitute LPG engine for diesel engine of heavy duty vehicles that are the main resources of air pollution in urban area. Large bore size of heavy duty LPG engine derives a serious knock problem. To find an optimal MBT conditions, it is necessary to know how the flame develops in the combustion chamber and find where the knock positions are. In this study. the ion-probe head gasket was used to estimate the knock position. Inverse operation of the ion-probe signal provides the flame developing characteristics. The further the position is from the spark plug, the later the flame arrives and the more times knock occurs. The main factor that effects knock position is inferred a flor situation of mixed gas in the combustion chamber.

Reaction Characteristics of LPG Fuel and Rubber Parts of Fuel Supply System in Liquid Phase LPG Injection (LPLi) System (LPG액상분사식(LPLi) 엔진에서 연료와 연료공급계통 고무류 부품사이의 반응성 연구)

  • Kim, Chang-Up;Park, Cheol-Woong;Kang, Kern-Yong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.272-277
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    • 2009
  • The liquid phase LPG injection (LPLi) system (the 3rd generation technology) has been considered as one of the most promising fuel supply systems for LPG vehicles. To investigate the reaction characteristics of LPG with rubber parts in LPLi system, various rubbers were tested. The results showed that the amount of residue from the cover rubber of a fuel pump was increased about 10 times after testing. Furthermore, the amount of sulfur and nitrogen species which are considered as main sources of deposit formation in LPLi fuel injectors were also found to be higher than those in original LPG fuel. In addition, these residues made the core parts of LPLi injector such as needle and nozzle, partially worn, which eventually causes leakage in LPLi injectors.