• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.1-9
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• 1999

Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) has been widely used for commercial light-duty vehicles worldwide. Since LPG has a higher octane number and a lower maximum combustion temperature than gasoline , it becomes more popular fuel for reducing exhaust emissions. In tihs study, mathematical models of air intake and fuel delivery system are presented, and a PI-controller is designed for air-fuel ratio control. Hardware and software of an engine control module (ECM) are designed for an LPG engine. The ECM is built using a Motorola MC68HC05. In order to control the air-fuel ratio at stoichiometry, the PI-control algorithm is implemented in the ECM. The experiment results show the proto LPG ECM and its control scheme perform well to meet the stoichiometric air-duel ratio requirement.

• 에너지공학
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to investigate the reduction of exhaust gas temperature in a LPG engine that had been converted from a diesel engine. A conventional diesel engine was modified to a LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) engine by replacing the diesel fuel injection pump with a LPG fuel system. The research was performed by measuring the exhaust gas temperature upon varying spark ignition timing, airfuel ratio, compression ratio, and different compositions of butane and propane. Engine power and exhaust temperature were not influenced by various butane/propane fuel compositions. Finally, among the parameters studied in this investigation, spark ignition timing is one of the most important in reducing exhaust gas temperature.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2003

LPG is considered as one of the most prominent alternative automotive fuels in worldwide. However, conventional mixer system can not meet the emission regulations as the mileage accumulation increased. Recently, much attention is focused on the development of LPG liquid injection fuel systems to increase the engine performance and reduce the exhaust emissions. This study evaluates the LPLi(Liquid Phase LPG injection) engine performance and exhaust emission characteristics using a 3.0 liter LPG engine. The fuel supply system and engine management system were changed from FBM into LPLi to control the precise mixture ratio and optimized spark advance.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2011

In this study, the numbers, sizes of particles from a single cylinder direct injection spark-ignition (DISI) engine fuelled with gasoline and LPG are examined over a wide range of engine operating conditions. Tests are conducted with various engine loads (2~10bar of IMEP) and fuel injection pressures (60, 90, and 120 bar) at the engine speed of 1,500 rpm. Particles are sampled directly from the exhaust pipe using rotating disk thermodiluter. The size distributions are measured using a scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS) and the particle number concentrations are measured using a condensation particle counter (CPC). The results show that maximum brake torque (MBT) timing for LPG fuel is less sensitive to engine load and its combustion stability is also better than that for gasoline fuel. The total particle number concentration for LPG was lower by a factor of 100 compared to the results of gasoline emission due to the good vaporization characteristic of LPG. Test result presents that LPG for direct injection spark ignition engine help the particle emission level to reduce.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제31권1호
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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.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 DME가 함유된 LPG 연료를 불꽃 점화 기관에서 적용 가능 여부를 실험적으로 살펴보고 있다. LPG와 DME가 함유된 혼합연료로 엔진 구동시 엔진출력, 배출가스 특성, 연소안정성 등의 항목에 대한 실험을 $1200{\sim}5200\;rpm$에서 수행하였다. 결과를 살펴보면 20% 내외의 범위에서 DME를 혼합하는 경우 안정된 연소성능을 얻을 수 있었으며 10%까지는 엔진 출력 저하가 거의 없다. 하지만 혼합율이 증가할수록 DME 연료는 LPG보다 에너지 밀도가 낮으므로 출력이 감소하고 제동연료소비율은 증가하는 현상을 보인다. LPG/DME 혼합연료는 향후 DME 시장을 넓혀 나가는 최선의 방법이 될 것이다.

• 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.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 2000년도 동계 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.16-21
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• 2000

• 에너지공학
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.160-165
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• 2002

LPG 연료를 사용하는 대형 단기통엔진은 연소과정과 배기성능을 파악하기 위해서 설계.제작되었다. 실린더헤드와 피스톤 크라운은 LPG 연소를 위해서 변경되었다. 또한 플라이휠은 단기통엔진의 진동을 최소로 하기 위해서 제작되었다. 실험용 단기통엔진의 실린더내경과 행정은 각각 130mm와 140mm이다. 압축비는 피스톤 크라운 형상을 다르게 하여 8에서 9로 변경되었다. 본 연구를 위해서 제작된 단기통엔진은 1,000rpm에서 운전되었다. 본 연구의 주요 결론은 (1)제작된 엔진의 출력은 3가지 다른 압축비별로 당량비 1.0에서 최고를 나타낸다. (2) 압축비 증가에 따라서 출력이 약간 증간한다. (3) 최적 점화시기는 크랭크각으로 2에서 10까지 압축비의 증가와 함께 지각되어진다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.100-106
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• 1998

The wide open throttle performance and piston temperatures were measured by the change of fuel : gasoline and liquefied petroleum gas(LPG). Bench test method was developed and experimented to study the effect of temperature on the formation of carbon deposit. The bench test results were confirmed by measuring the piston temperature and observing the deposit production rate at an actual engine running condition. Results show that if the fuel of spark ignition engine is changed from gasoline to LPG, the output power decreases about 10% and the piston temperatures increase about 40~55$^{\circ}C$. In actual engine tests, because of this temperature increase, it was observed that the quantity of carbon deposit in the top ring groove increased in a big degree. Consuquently, it is known that the fing sticking may occur if the gasoline engine was rebuilt to LPG fuelled engine. Therefore, in order to preserve the durability of LPG fuelled engine, it is necessary to lower the piston temperature by hardware modificationor to reduce the carbon deposit by the improvement of engine oil.