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An electric conductive-probe technique for measuring the liquid fuel layer in the intake manifold

  • Kajitani, S.;Sawa, N.;Rhee, K.T.;Hayashi, S.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1990.10b
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    • pp.1184-1189
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    • 1990
  • In order to investigate liquid fuel filming over the intake manifold wall, an electrode-type probe has been developed by lines of authors and this probe was employed in a single cylinder two and four-stroke cycle engine and in a four cylinder four-stroke engine operated by neat methanol fuel. The performance of the probe was dependent upon several parameters including the liquid fuel layer thickness, temperature, additive in the fuel, and electric power source (i.e., AC and voltage level) and was independent of other variables such as direction of liquid flow with respect to the probe arrangement. Several new findings from this study may be in order. The flow velocity of the fuel layer in the intake manifold of engine was about (if the air velocity in the steady state operation, the layer thickness of liquid fuel varied in both the circumferential and longitydinal directions. In the transient operation of the engine, the temporal variation of fuel thickness was determined, which clearly suggests that there was difference between fuel/air ratio in the intake manifold and that in the cylinder. The variation was greatly affected by the engine speed, fuel/air ratio and throttle opening. And the variation was also very significant from cylinder to cylinder and it was particularly strong different engine speeds and throttle opening.

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Flow Measurements at the Exit of a Throttle Valve in Gasoline Engines (가솔린 엔진의 스로틀 밸브 출구에서 유동측정)

  • Kim, Sung-Cho;Kim, Cheol;Choi, Jong-Geon;Wee, Hwa-Bok
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2002
  • The flow and combustion patterns have been investigated inside the gasoline engine cylinder with the swirl or tumble flow, whereas the air flow characteristics, which are generated in the part of intake system before entering into the intake manifold, have not been known completely. It is necessary to analyze the flow field in the intake system consisting of air rater, throttle valve and intake manifold. The throttle valve, used to control the intake air flow rate, is important because it makes various mass flow rate and flow patterns. Three-dimen-sional How characteristics such as velocities, turbulent intensities and Reynolds shear stresses are measured by the hot wire anemometer at the exit of the throttle valve with the variation in the valve opening angle($15^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$, $75^{\circ}$ and $90^{\circ}$) and the Reynolds numbers (45000, 70000 and 140000). There are a lot of changes in flow characteristics at $75^{\circ}$ due to the large recirculation flow comparing with those of the other cases, and the streamwise velocity is especially enforced strongly below the valve shaft. The other component velocities are relatively large near the centerline parallel to the valve shaft. The effects of the Reynolds number on the flow field are not severe.

An Experimental Study of the Air Flow Rate Characteristics at Steady State in an SI Engine (SI엔진의 정상상태 유량 특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 박경석;고상근;노승탁;이종화
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.5 no.6
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 1997
  • In an SI engine, the characteristics of the air flow is important not only for the design of the intake system geometry but also for the accurate measurement of the induction air mass. In this study, an air flow rate measurement using the ultrasonic flow meter and hot wire flow meter was conducted at the upstream of the intake port and the throttle. At the upstream of the intake port, the pulsating flow into the cylinder affected by the pressure wave was detected directly with the flow meters instead of pressure sensors. At the upstream of the throttle, the reverse flow phenomena were showed by comparing the flow pattern measured by the hot wire air flow meter and the ultrasonic air flow meter. The results of this study can be used for the analysis of the tuning effect in the intake manifold and estimation of the error in real time measurement for the air flow rate.

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Intake-Air Flow and Distribution Characteristics of the Gasoline Engine Intake-Manifold (가솔린엔진 흡기매니폴드의 흡기유량 및 분배특성)

  • Yeom, Kyoung-Min;Park, Sung-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.11
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    • pp.4718-4725
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    • 2011
  • Intake-air flow and distribution characteristics of the 1600cc gasoline engine intake manifold have been studied using the computer simulation. Simulation has been conducted using both one-dimensional performance simulation and three-dimensional CFD software. Steady state flow simulation result of the intake manifold shows good distribution characteristics that the standard deviation of flow coefficients is below 1.0 percentage for both one- and three-dimensional simulation. Even though one-dimensional simulation result slightly overestimates compared with three-dimensional simulation result, both results show very good agreement in flow coefficient trend. Also, unsteady state simulation result shows consistent distribution characteristics with that of steady state. It is shown that unsteady state distribution characteristics might be able to be predicted through the steady state mass distribution result.

A Study on the Characteristics of NOx and another Emisson by Water Injection System for a Light-Duty Diesel Engine (물 분사 시스템에 의한 소형 디젤엔진의 NOx 및 그 외 배출물의 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Choi Jae-Sung;Nam Jeong-Gil
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.628-636
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    • 2005
  • In this paper. the effects of a WI(Water Injection) in the intake pipe for a 4-cylinder Dl(Direct Injection) diesel engine are investigated experimentally, The WI system was controlled by the duty cycle from the intake manifold's temperature and MAF(Manifold Air Flow) First. effect of EGR on NOx reduction was investigated. Then WI system was applied to reduce NOx As the results. we can make the NOx map and visualize the NOx results by variation of engine speed and engine load It was known that effect of WI system on NOx reduction without the EGR was better than the with EGR base engine except of low load and speed condition.

Experimental Study on Wave Attenuating Effect of a Pneumatic Breakwater by Using a Multiple Parallel Manifold (다중 병렬 분기관을 이용한 압축공기 방파제의 소파효과에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • KIM JONG-WOOK;Shin Hyun-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.257-262
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    • 2004
  • A series of preliminary model tests are performed to find out the wave attenuating effect of the pneumatic breakwater of environment friendly type, which is a bubble screen generated by releasing compressed air from a submerged multiple parallel manifold Rising bubbles induce vertical current, which produces horizontal currents flowing away from the bubble-screen area in both directions. Near bottom, the corresponding currents flow toward the bubble screen, thus completing the circulation pattern. The surface current moving against the direction of wave propagation causes some attenuation of the waves. It becomes more effective as the relative depth (d/ L) increases (short-period waves in deep water). With the same air-discharge, the multiple parallel manifold can be more effective for the attenuation of longer waves through optimum arrangement of manifold number. installation depth, manifold gap, etc. The pneumatic breakwater will give a wide utilization as a device for protecting harbor facilities and as a simple, mobile breakwater.

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Methodological Approaches to Reduce Uncertainties Associated with Air Sampling : Development and Assessment of a Six-port Manifold MFC System (대기 중 오염물질의 시료채취시 관측오차 저감방법에 대한 연구 : 6구형 매니폴더를 장착한 MFC system의 개발과 평가)

  • 김기현;오상인;최여진;김민영;최규훈
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.377-386
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    • 2003
  • In order to develop a confident sampling technique, we designed and constructed a 6-port manifold MFC sampling system for collecting gaseous pollutants in air. Using this instrumentation, we tested the performance criteria of MFC system in terms of: (1) flow rate; (2) MFC-to-MFC variability; (3) tube-to-tube variability; and (4) time. It was interesting to find that the later two factors did not show any significant variations, while the former two show substantially large variations. However, as most of those variabilities are consistent enough to form systematic patterns, we were able to explain the occurrence patterns of all those MFC biases in terms of those four major variables. The overall results of our experiment suggest that one needs to use correction factor for each MFC unit under a given flow rate to maintain optimal accuracy and precision for sampling of those pollutants.

A Study on the Urea-SCR System for NOx Reduction of a light-Duty Diesel Engine (소형 디젤엔진의 NOx 저감을 위한 Urea-SCR 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Nam Jeong-Gil
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.57-63
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    • 2005
  • The effects of an urea injection at the exhaust pipe for a 4-cylinder DI(Direct Injection) diesel engine were investigated with the parameters such as urea-SCR(Selective Catalytic Reduction) and EGR system. The urea quantity was controlled by NOx quantity and MAF(Manifold Air Flow). The urea injection quantity can be controlled with the urea syringe pump, precisely. The effects of NOx reduction for the urea-SCR system were investigated with and without ECR engine, respectively. It was concluded that the SUF(Stoichiometric Urea Flow) is calculated and the NOx results are visualized with engine speed and load. Furthermore, the NOx map is made from this experimental results. It was suggested, therefore, that NOx reduction effects of the urea-SCR system without the EGR engine were better than that with the EGR engine except of low load and low speed.

A Study on the Lean Combustion of the Gasoline Engine with Air Assisted Fuel Injection System (공기 보조 연료 분사 장치가 있는 가솔린 기관의 희박 연소에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, S.W.;Kim, E.S.
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.117-123
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    • 1994
  • This paper describes the effect of air assisted fuel injection system(AAI) using compressed air to improve the performance of lean combustion engine. AAI is designed to promote fuel atomization and intake flow. In order to investigate the performance of engine with AAl, experiments are conducted varying the engine revolution speed, lean air-fuel ratio and intake manifold pressure. Compared with the original engine, the performance of the engine with MI is improved as the air-fuel mixture becomes leaner or the engine load becomes lower. The descreasing rate of BSFC is propotional to the relative air-fuel ratio and the lean misfire limit extended more than 0.2 relative airfuel ratio.

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A Study on the Flow Characteristics of the Mixture in an Intake Manifold (흡기관 내의 혼합기 유동 특성에 관한 연구)

  • 이창식;조병옥
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.218-228
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    • 1996
  • The behaviors of the mixture at the downstream of throttle valve in a TBI type gasoline engine plays a greater role in design of intake system. A good mixture has been influencing directly not only on the engine power but also on the pollutant emission. The mixture flow in an intake manifold is very complex, and the flow characteristics are varied with the valve type, valve angle, inlet air flow rate, and the other flow factors. Three kinds of valve are chosen in this study, and the informations of the mixture flow are observed experimentally using a PIV apparatus. Perforate valve has a smaller recirculation zone than the case of solid valve with a lower valve loss coefficient, and iti is verified that the perforated valve is also suitable to control the flow rate in a mixture flow system.

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