• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2003

Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) system is used to reduce NOx emission, to improve fuel economy, and to suppress knock since it offers the benefits of the inlet charge dilution. The effects of EGR was investigated on the performance and emission to reduce exhaust thermal load with a single cylinder liquid-phase LPG injection engine, in a wide range of EGR rate, engine conditions and LPG proportions. As EGR rate was increased, NOx was reduced while HC was increased. Pumping loss reduction by EGR improved bsfc and increased EGR lowered exhaust gas temperature. And, LPG proportions were made a difference on the performance and emission characteristics.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2003

The liquid phase LPG injection engine is a new technology to make good use of LPG as a clean energy. However, it is difficult to precisely control air/fuel ratio in the system because of variation of fuel composition, change of temperature and flash boiling injection mechanism. This study newly suggests an injector control logic for liquid phase LPG injection systems. This logic compensates a number of effects such as variations of density, stoichiometric air/fuel ratio, injection delay time, injection pressure, release pressure which is formed by flash boiling of fuel at nozzle exit. This logic can precisely control air/fuel ratio with only two parameters of intake air flow rate and injection pressure without considering fuel composition, fuel 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.

• 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.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.87-94
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• 2003

Recently, LPLi(Liquied-Phase LPG injection) system is studied for the new stringent emission regulations. But , there are some problems to be solved such as injector tip icing and fuel leakage for LPLi system development. In this paper, the icing problem near injector tip which leads to difficulty of accurate A/F control was studied and reported. Icing of injector tip and port wall was observed at all the cases in this study regardless of injection duration and angle, air humidity change. The spray angle of LPLi was observed approximately two times wider than that of Gasoline injection. This makes the LPLi spray collide with intake port around injector tip. Temperature of the wetted area was decreased and icing of water vapor contained in intake air because of evaporation of the fuel film. The ice of the injector tip and port wall is also affected by the materials related to heat transfer.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.94-100
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• 2007

The liquid phase LPG injection (LPLi) system (the third generation technology) has been considered as one of the next generation fuel supply systems for LPG vehicles, since it has a very strong potential to accomplish the higher power, higher efficiency, and lower emission characteristics than the mixer type (the second generation technology) fuel supply system. To investigate the characteristics of LPG residue in liquid phase LPG injection system, various rubbers in LPG fuel system were reacted with LPG fuels during 3 months. The experimental results showed that the residue of a cover rubber in a fuel pump after test increased 10 times higher than that before test. Furthermore, the amount of sulfur, nitrogen species which are considered as main sources in deposit formation in the LPLi fuel injector were also found to be higher than that in original LPG fuel. And rubber properties of fuel pump cover were decreased after reaction test compared with those of the original rubber. Therefore, the rubber for fuel pump cover is not suitable for a proper material in LPLi fuel system. And these results can provide more information if a motor company shares the data of core rubber parts in field test LPLi vehicles.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 LPG자동차용 LPG 액상분사 인젝터의 분사구 앞에 장착할 수 있는 플라즈마 개질기의 개발을 진행하였다. 이 개질기는 플라즈마 방전이 발생하는 영역에 공기와 LPG 연료를 분사시켜 고분자 탄소연료를 열해리시키고 추가로 수소를 발생시키기 위한 목적으로 개발되었다. 인젝터와 플라즈마 발생부와의 거리와 기하학적인 방전길을 최적화하여 개질 반응이 일어나는 인젝터 개질기를 완성하였으며, 개질 결과 공급 전력 70~100W 일 때 HC은 전체 개질가스의 약 0.7% 이며, 수소는 1.2~1.5% 발생하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1103-1106
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• 2005

The research and development for LPLI system to replace the conventional LPG fuel supply system has been processed with a view to enhancing the environmental status and the efficiency for LPG cars. Part of the small sized cars are under commercialization with the LPLI application already. And yet, most of the technologies are relied upon the advanced countries and as part of the application for large scaled engines, many researches are on the increase. This study shows the technology development to make use of LPLI system for those large engines and reviews the controllers, which were manipulated through experiments for their work, reliability and possibility for commercialization.

• 오토저널
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.14-18
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• 2005

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제35권10호
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• pp.1019-1024
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• 2011

LPG 분사시스템의 경우 액상 및 기상 인젝터를 사용하는 두 가지 방식이 있으며, 가스 분사 방식의 경우 내구성 및 가격 측면에서 장점이 있지만 가스의 압축성 특성으로 인한 정밀 유량제어에 어려움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 가스분사 방식 LPG 연료 분사 시스템에서 정밀 유량 제어를 위한 수단으로 헬름홀쯔 공진기를 사용하는 방안을 제시하였다. 그리고 상용 유동해석 프로그램인 Flowmaster를 사용하여 대상 자동차의 연료 시스템에 대해 유동해석을 통해 최적의 공진기를 설계방안을 설계하였으며, 공진기 설치 후 개선 효과를 제시하였다.