• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.323-332
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• 2005

A cylindrical constant volume combustion chamber was used to investigate the flow characteristics at the spark electrode gap and the combustion characteristics of a homogeneous charged methane-air mixture under various overall charge pressures, excess air ratios and ignition times. The flow characteristics, including the mean velocity and turbulence intensity, were analyzed with a hot wire anemometer. Combustion pressure development measured by piezoelectric pressure transducer, a flame propagation image acquired by ICCD camera and exhaust emissions measured by 2-valve gas chromatography were used to investigate effects of initial pressures, excess air ratios and ignition times on the combustion characteristics. It was found that the mean velocity and turbulence intensity had the maximum value around 200-300 ms and then decreased gradually to a near-zero value after 3000 ms and that the combustion duration was shorten and the flame speed and laminar burning velocity had the highest value under the condition of an excess air ratio of 1.1, an overall charge pressure of 0.15 MPa and an ignition time of 300 ms in the present study. The $CO_2$ concentration was proportional to the ignition time and overall charge pressure, the $CO_2$ concentration was proportional to the excess air ratio, and the UHC concentration was inversely proportional to the ignition time and overall charge pressure.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.156-167
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• 1996

The present work is a continuation of our previous study to investigate the effects of parameters such as equivalence ratio, hydrogen supplement rate and initial pressure on combustion characteristics in a disk-shaped constant volume combustion chamber. The main results obtained from the study can be summarized as follows. The flames in near stoichiometric mixture of methane-air are propagated with a spherical shape, but in excess rich or lean mixtures are propagated with a elliptical shape. And, they are changed to an unstable elliptical shape flame with very regular cells by increasing the hydrogen supplement rate. Also, flame is sluggishly propagated at increased initial pressure in combustion chamber. Volume fraction of burned gas and flame radius as the combustion characteristics are increased by increasing the hydrogen supplement rate, especially at the combustion middle period, but then are slowly increased by increasing the initial pressure.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.113-120
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• 2012

It is being more serious problems that the pollutant and the greenhouse gas emitted from the internal combustion engines due to the increasing demand of automobiles. To counteract this, as one of the ways has been studied, GDI type engine, which is directly injected into the combustion chamber and burns by a spark ignition that chose the merits of both gasoline engine and diesel engine, was appeared. The combustion phenomena in this GDI engine is known to contribute to combustion stability, fuel consumption reduction and reductions of harmful substances of exhaust gas emission, when the fuel spray of atomization being favorable and the mixture formation being promoted. Accordingly, this study analyzed the affection of ambient temperature and fuel injection pressure to the fuel by investigate the visualization of combustion, combustion pressure and the characteristic of emission, by applying GDI system on the constant combustion chamber. As a result, as the fuel injection pressure increases, the fuel distribution in the combustion chamber becomes uniform due to the increase of penetration and atomization. And when ambient temperatures in the combustion chamber become increase, the fuel evaporation rate being high but the penetration was reduced due to the reduction of volume flux, and confirmed that the optimized fuel injection strategy is highly needed.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.150-156
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• 2010

Ethanol has properties of a lower setting point, higher oxygen contents, lower cetane numbers, and also higher volatility compared to biodiesel. Thus, biodiesel fuel can be improved in the fluidity of blending fuel and exhaust emissions by blended ethanol fuel. This research aims to understand combustion characteristics of biodiesel-ethanol blending fuel inside a constant volume chamber. High speed camera was applied to visualize the physics of development of combustion processes, and combustion pressure and exhaust emissions were measured at several blending ratios of ethanol and biodiesel fuel. This information may contribute to improve the performance of biodiesel engine and reduce emissions in future.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.84-89
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• 2009

In this research, combustion and spray characteristics were investigated experimentally in a constant volume chamber by applying different composition rates of octane number in diesel fuel to a common-rail system. For the visualization, the experiment was carried out under different injection pressures and different cetane number. The test was done by three different types of diesel fuels, the different composition rates of cetane number in diesel fuel and HBD. In summary, this research aims to investigate the combustion characteristics in the application of fuels and compare the results with performance of conventional diesel fuel. This experimental data may provide with fundamentals of the development of diesel engines in future.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.135-146
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• 2015

본 논문은 대형 상용기관을 모사한 정적연소실에서 매립지 가스의 연소 특성에 대한 복수의 논문 중 네 번째로, 열 발생 특성과 가시화 결과를 관찰하여 토치 연소의 특징을 논의하였다. 분석 결과 토치 연소는 주 연소실에 형성된 화염 면을 토치에서 분출되는 가스가 가속시킴으로 연소를 촉진한다. 이때 오리피스 직경이 4mm일 때는 토치에서 고온의 가스가 분출되며, 6mm 이상에서는 토치에서 형성된 화염이 직접 오리피스를 통과한다. 또한 메탄 분율, 토치 체적 그리고 오리피스 크기가 상호 연관적으로 작용하여 다양한 연소 형태를 야기하고 이에 따라 토치 연소의 효과가 매우 다르게 나타난다. 마지막으로 실물기관에서 연소 과정의 일관성을 보장하는 적절한 토치의 조건은 6mm 이상의 오리피스 직경과 0.15 이하의 오리피스 면적비를 동시에 만족시키는 것이다.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2005

An experimental study was carried out to obtain the fundamental data about the effects of radical ignition on premixture combustion. A CVC(constant volume combustor) divided into the sub-chamber and the main chamber was used. Numerous narrow passage holes are arranged between the main chamber and the sub-chamber. The products including radicals generated by spark ignition in tile sub-chamber derives the simultaneous multi-point ignition in the main chamber. We have examined the effects of the sub-chamber volume, the diameter and number of passage holes, and the equivalence $ratio({\Phi})$ on the combustion characteristics by means of burning pressure measurement and flame visualization. In a CVC, the overall burning time including the ignition delay became very short and the maximum burning pressure was slightly increased by the radical ignition(RI) method in comparison with those by the conventional spark ignition(SI) method. Combustible lean limit by RI method is extended by ${\Phi}=0.25$ compared with that by SI method. Also, In cases of charging the number and the diameter for the fixed total cross section of the passage holes, combustion period increased significantly at a sub-chamber with a single hole, but those of the other conditions had almost a similar tendency in the sub-chamber with 4 or more holes. regardless of equivalence ratio. Therefore, it was Proved that a critical cross section exists with the number of passage holes.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.22-34
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• 1997

Circumstances require improving diesel engine, and many studies have been done in constant volume chamber(CVC). Because the combustion mechanism of a diesel engine has many difficulties with non-homogeneous nature, there has been a limitation to analyzing the combustion mechanism with CVC. Studies are often given in a real engine, but also it has difficulties in modifying configuration of combustion chamber etc. To get more easy way for mote engine-like test, a rapid compression mechanism has been introduced. This study addresses to designing a rapid compression expansion machine(RCEM) driven by compressed air, and to applying it on IDI diesel combustion chamber which has a glow plug. RCEM is introduced first and its characteristics are tested, then spray/combustion characteristics of diesel spray impinging on a glow plug in RCEM combustion chamber are investigated. The results show active combustion in the system employing spray impinging on a glow plug so as to improve combustion efficiency.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.389-396
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• 1994

It is very important to clarify the ignition and flame propagation processes of methanol fuel in the Spark-ignition engine. High speed Schlieren photography and pressure trace analyses were used to study on combustion characteristics of methanol fuel in a constant volume chamber. Methanol-air mixtures equivalence rations from lean limit to 1.4 were ignited at initial pressure (0.1, 0.3, 0.5 MPa), temperature (313 343, 373 K) and ignition energy (40, 180 mJ). As the result of this study, we verified the characteristics such as ignition delay, effective thermal efficiency, flame propagation velocity, lean limit, ignitability and combustion duration. Obatained results are as follows. (1) The time to 10% reach of maximum pressure was 40-50% of the total combustion duration for this experimental condition hardly affected by equivalence ratio. (2) The Effective thermal efficiency, as calculated from maximum pressure was the highest when the mixture was slightly lean $({\phi} 0.8-0.9)$ and maximum pressure was the highest when the mixiture was slightly rich $({\phi} 1.2-1.2).$

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.345-350
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• 2017

디젤 엔진의 연비와 배기를 개선하고자 하는 노력으로 다운사이징이 강화되고 있다. 이에 따라 엔진의 사이즈는 작아지고, 엔진 연소실 내 온도와 압력은 상승하는 추세이다. 따라서 높은 온도와 압력 조건에서 연료 분무의 발달과정과 연소과정 연구가 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 디젤 엔진 연소실의 고온 고압 환경을 벤치에서 모사해줄 수 있는 정적 연소실을 개발하였다. 정적 연소실은 예혼합기를 연소시켜 순간적으로 온도와 압력을 급격하게 상승시킨 다음, 주변으로의 열전달에 의해 온도와 압력이 감소할 때 시험 목표조건인 온도와 압력 조건에 다다르면, 연료 분사기에 신호를 인가하여 연료분무를 개시하며 쿼츠 창을 통하여 연료 분무를 가시화 한다. 이 때, 정적 연소실 내에 연료 분무가 이루어지는 영역의 온도를 정확히 측정하여 정확한 시험 조건을 형성해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 고속으로 온도를 측정할 수 있는 열전대를 직접 개발 및 제작하여 연소실 내 시공간적 온도분포를 측정하였다. 측정 결과, 전체 체적 온도보다 연료 분무가 개시되는 중심 공간의 온도가 더 높게 나타났으며, 이는 연소실 벽면으로의 열전달 때문임을 확인하였다. 또한 횡방향으로의 온도 편차는 약 10%이내 수준이었으나, 종방향으로 온도편차가 최대 15%수준으로 나타났고 이는 부력으로 인한 고온의 연소가스의 상승효과 때문으로 판단되었다.