• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.77-88
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• 1997

The heat rejection to coolant is a dominant factor for building vehicle cooling system such as radiator and cooling fan. Since the vehicle cooling system also has effects on fuel consumption and noise, the study of heat rejection to coolant has been emphasized. However, the study on heat rejection to coolant has been mainly focused on the field that related to the characteristics of combustion and localized heat loss. It is no much of use in design for the entire cooling system because it is focused on such a specific point. In this work, the heat rejection rate to coolant for four different engines are obtained to derive a simple heat transfer empirical formula that can be applied to the engine cooling system design, and it is compared with the other studies. Also, to observe effects of engine operation factors and heat transfer factors on coolant, we measured the metal temperature and the heat rejection rate. The heat rejection to coolant does not depend significantly upon the coolant flowrate, but mainly upon the amount of air fuel mixture and the air fuel ratio as long as the composition of coolant does not change. The reduction of heat rejection to coolant did not effectively improve the fuel consumption, but was mostly converted to raise the exhaust gas temperature and the oil temperature.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 1982

The objective of this study was to find out the technical feasibility of ethanol-diesel fuel blends as a diesel engine fuel. Fuel properties essential to the proper operation of a diesel engine were determined for blends containing several concentrations of ethanol in No. 2 diesel fuel. A single-cylinder diesel engine for a power tiller was used for the engine tests, in which load, speed and fuel consumption rate were measured. The fuels used in tests were No. 2 diesel fuel and a blend containing 10-percent ethanol and 90-percent No. 2 diesel fuel. The results of the study are summarized as follows. 1. It was not possible to blend ethanol and No. 2 diesel fuel as a homogeneous solution even though anhydrous ethanol was used. The problem of blending ethanol in No. 2 diesel fuel could be solved by adding butanol about 5% of the amount of ethanol in the blends. 2. Because ethanol had a much lower boiling point ($78.3^{\circ}C$ under atmospheric pressure) than a diesel fuel, it was necessary to store ethanol-diesel fuel blends airtight in order to prevent them from evaporation losses of ethanol. 3. The addition of ethanol to No. 2 diesel fuel lowered the fuel viscosity and the cetane rating, but a blend of 10% ethanol and 90% diesel fuel had a viscosity and a cetane rating well above the KS minimum values for No. 2 diesel fuel. 4. At the rated speed, the specific fuel consumption of No.2 diesel fuel was lower than that of the 10% ethanol blend for the almost entire range of load. However, under the overload condition the specific fuel consumption was lower for the 10% ethanol blend. 5. Under the variable-speed full-load tests, both fuels produced approximately the same torque and power. At the speeds of 1600rpm or below, the specific fuel consumption of No. 2 diesel fuel was lower than that of the 10% ethanol blend. At the speeds of 1600rpm or above, however, the specific fuel consumption was lower for the 10% ethanol blend. 6. At the ambient temperature above $15^{\circ}C$, the use of the 10% ethanol blend in the engine created a vapor lock in the fuel injection pump and stalled the engine. The vapor locking problem was overcome by chilling the surroundings of the fuel injection pump and the cylinder head with water.

• 에너지공학
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.178-185
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• 2002

본 연구의 목적은 조기 연료 기화장치가 승용차의 냉간 주행성능에 미치는 영향을 조사하여 평가하는 것이다. 이를 위해 실험은 냉 시동성과 냉간 주행성능으로 나누어 실시하여 연료소비율과 유해 배출 가스량을 측정하고, 실린더내의 연소압력을 근거로 열 발생율, 적산 열 발생량, 질량연소율을 구하였다. 결과는 다음과 같다. 조기연료 기화장치의 장착은 냉 시동 초기부터 난기 완료까지의 연료소비량을 17.7%향상, 냉 시동 초기의 일산화탄소의 배출량은 23%, 탄화수소 배출량은 45% 저감 되고, 또한 냉간 주행시의 엔진의 연소 최고압력, 도시 평균 유효압력의 변동을 4∼6% 개선시키고, 단위 출력당 연료 소비율이 0.2∼2.3% 절감된다. 이것은 조기연료기화장치에 의한 연소실내 최대 열 발생 지연기간 및 주 연소기간이 짧아지기 때문이다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.24-29
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• 2001

Adaptive valve timing control is one of the promising techniques to accomplish the optimized mixture formation and combustion depending on the load and speed, which is needed to meet the future challenges in reducing fuel consumption and exhaust emissions. The behavior and the effect of adaptive valve timing control system has been investigated by computer simulation, which simulates the gas dynamics in engines. Improved fuel economy can be achieved by reduction of pumping loss under low and mid load conditions. EIVC(Early Intake Valve Closing) strategy turns out to be superior to LIVC(Late Intake Valve Closing) strategy in reducing fuel consumption. Deterioration of combustion quality can be overcome by introducing LIVO(Late Intake Valve Opening) strategy, which increases turbulent intensity in cylinders. Furthermore, LIVO can reduce HC emission by decreasing the required amount of fuel to be injected during cold start.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.1013-1018
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• 2007

자동차의 연료분사에 관여하는 전자제어 센서에는 공기유량 센서, 흡기온도 센서, 대기압 센서, 냉각수 온도센서, 스로틀 포지션 센서, 모터 포지션 센서 등이 있다. 본 논문에서는 흡기온도 센서의 온도 변화와 공기와 연료의 혼합비율인 공연비에 대해 퍼지 제어 기법을 적용하여 차량의 연료 소비를 제어하는 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 기법에서는 각각의 공기 유입량과 연료 분사량을 이용하여 공연비 수치를 구한 후, 공연비, 흡기온도, 최종 연료 보정량에 대해 설정된 퍼지 소속 함수와 퍼지 추론 규칙에 따라 차량 연료가 제어된다. 제어하는 방법을 제시하였다. 시뮬레이션을 통한 일반적인 차량의 연료 제어 방법과 비교 분석한 결과, 제안된 방법이 차량의 연료제어에 있어 효과적임을 확인하였다.

• 한국항공운항학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2021

Fuel costs represent one of the most substantial expenses for airlines, accounting for 20% - 36% of the airline's total operating cost. The present study discusses the so-called discretionary fuel that is additionally loaded at the discretion of airlines to cover unforeseen variations from the planned flight operations. The proper range of the discretionary fuel to be loaded for economic flight operations was estimated by applying Monte Carlo simulation technique. With this simulation model for loading discretionary fuel, airlines cannot only reduce the total amount of fuel to be consumed but also minimize the risk of unplanned flight disruptions caused by insufficient fuel on board. Airlines should be able to guarantee proper risk management processes for fuel boarding by carrying enough fuel to high-risk airports. This study would provide a practical guideline for loading proper amounts of discretionary fuel. Future researchers should be encouraged to improve this study by elaborating the weather variable.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.40-49
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 실차 실험을 통해 연료차단구역에서의 관성주행 시 연료소모량변화와 속도변화를 통해 주행 특성을 분석하고, 연료차단구역의 효과를 분석하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 인천시 지역을 대상으로 2-8% 내리막 경사 13개 지점을 실험대상지역을 선정하여 실차실험을 수행하였다. 내리막 경사를 일반주행, 관성주행 2가지 방법으로 반복 주행하고, 주행하는 동안 차량정보저장장치로부터 수집된 실시간 연료소모량, 속도, 엔진회전속도 등의 차량상태를 비교 분석하였다. 13개 내리막 구간에서 관성주행 시 절감되는 연료소모량은 일반주행 시에 비해 최소 24% 최대 78%까지 절감되는 것으로 나타났다. 주행실험구간의 연장은 평균 500m 정도로 실제 해당구간을 통과하는 동안 절감되는 연료량은 최대 30cc정도로 개별차량이 특정구간을 관성주행 함에 따라 얻는 비용차이는 크지 않을 수 있으나, 해당구간의 교통량을 고려할 때 무네미로 3구간의 경우 439m 구간에 대해 연간 356억 원의 연료비를 절감할 수 있을 것으로 분석되었다. 또한 절감된 연료소모량에 따른 오염물질 배출과 관성주행으로 인한 교통안전 향상까지 감안한다면 더 큰 편익을 기대할 수 있다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.10-14
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• 2010

Biodiesel of 20% (BD20) and 100% (BD100), alterative fuels for tractor, were tested for its power and competitiveness in the various farm operations including plowing and rotary tilling in the paddy fields. No troubles such as engine ignition or abrupt stopping were monitored during the works of plowing, rotary tilling and travelling on the road. According to the tractor PTO test in accordance with OECD tractor PTO test codes, no significant PTO output difference was found between the three fuels. However, fuel consumption rates were different between the biodiesels and diesel fuel in the paddy works, where as biodiesel percentage increased more fuels were spent than the diesel fuel. The reason for this phenomenon seems came from density difference of the three fuels. Maximum fuel consumption difference occurred between BD100 and diesel fuel was about 10% in the plowing. More energy was spent on the rotary tilling operations than the plowing, where 35~40 % more fuel needed on rotary tilling than plowing. Of the exhaust gases, more $CO_2$ was discharged from diesel fuel than biodiesels, but more NOx from biodiesels and CO was hard to determine which fuel produce more amount.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.485-493
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• 2016

Recently submarine and unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) are equipped with a fuel cell system as an air independent propulsion system. Methanol fuel processor can efficiently supply the hydrogen to the fuel cell system to improve the ability to dive. This study investigated the optimal conditions of the methanol fuel processor that may be used in the closed environment. For this purpose, the numerical model based on Gibbs minimization equation was established for steam reformer and three exhaust gas burners. After simulating the characteristics of steam reformer according to the steam-to-carbon ratio (SCR) and the pressure change, the SCR condition was able to narrow down to 1.1 to 1.5. Considering water consumption and the amount of heat recovered from three burners, the optimum condition of the SCR can be determined to be 1.5. Nevertheless, the additional heat supply is required to satisfy the heat balance of the methanol fuel processor in the SCR=1.5. In other to obtain additional amount of heat, the combustion of methanol is better than the increased of SCR in terms of system design.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2012

This research is about the exhaust gas and driving performance test which are for CNG-Diesel dual fuel engine. The CNG-Diesel dual fuel engine converted from 2500cc diesel has two steps of injection systems; small amount of diesel is injected to mixture CNG in cylinder to ignite before CNG is injected into each intake manifold to form mixture. The amounts of output power and emission in duel fuel consumption were measured by engine dynamometer and exhaust gas analyzer. Over 90% of diesel consumption reduction, similar driving performance to current diesel engine and reduced emission on $CO_2$ and PM, respectively, were indicated through the measurements. The two steps of system were applied to vehicle to investigate exhaust gas characteristics and driving performance via NEDC mode and real driving test. Additional oxidation catalyst was applied to reduce emission on the test vehicle and the NEDC mode test showed the reduction of Co, $CO_2$, Pm and THC.