• 한국가스학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.91-97
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• 2023

오래된 디젤 엔진을 탑재하고 있는 노후화된 건설용 기계 및 차량들은 보통 수명이 길기 때문에 최신의 배기 규제와는 동떨어진 수준의 유해한 배출가스를 계속 배출하고 있다. 따라서 이러한 구형 디젤 엔진을 최신 배기 규제를 만족하는 엔진으로 대체할 수 있다면 대기질 개선에 도움이 될 것으로 기대되는데, 건설 현장에서 손쉽게 구할 수 있는 프로판 연료를 적용한 엔진이 적합한 대안이 될 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 6.8리터 CNG 엔진을 베이스로 프로판 전용 엔진을 개발하였으며, 가스 전용 인젝터, 배기가스재순환(EGR), 강화된 촉매 등의 기술이 적용되었다. 그 결과 동급의 디젤 엔진 출력 및 토크를 확보하는 한편 최신 배출가스 규제인 Stage-V 수준에서 질소산화물은 절반 수준에 해당하는 배출가스 성능을 달성하였다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.78-83
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• 2011

Natural gas is one of the most promising alternatives to gasoline and diesel fuels because of its high thermal efficiency and lower harmful emissions, including $CO_2$. Although the high octane value of natural gas increases engine output and efficiency due to the high compression ratio, this fuel is prone to such difficulties as a narrow limit of inflammability and a slow combustion speed in the lean burn operation domain, leading to unstable combustion and higher emissions of harmful exhaust gases. Hydrogen blended with natural gas can extend the lean burn limit while maintaining stable, efficient combustion and achieving lower NOx, hydrocarbon and green house gas emissions. In this study, the effect of hydrogen addition on an engine performance and NOx emission characteristics was investigated in a heavy duty natural gas engine. The results showed that thermal efficiency was increased and NOx emissions were reduced due to the expansion of lean operation range under stable operation. NOx emission can be significantly reduced with the retard of spark advance timing.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.72-82
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• 2008

Benzene is a very harmful and toxic compound known as human carcinogen by all routes of exposure. Owing to the risky feature of benzene, several countries such as Japan, UK and EU have established the ambient air quality standard and protect from that risk of it. Korea also has designated it as one of the criteria air pollutants and established the concentration limit ($5\;{\mu}g/m^3$) in the air and is going to apply the standard from 2010. Benzene is emitted from various sources such as combustion plants, production processes, waste treatment facilities and also automobiles. Mobile source is known as one of the major emission sources of benzene. In this study, we estimated the domestic emissions of benzene from mobile source and compared the results with those of advanced countries. Mobile source was divided into 2 categories, Le., on-road source and non-road source. The total emissions of benzene from mobile source were estimated as 3,106 tons/yr and 1,612 tons/yr was emitted from on-road source and 1,494 tons/yr was from non-road source. Emission ratio of benzene from on-road source showed that 80.0% was from passenger cars, 10.1% was from taxis, 7.2% was from light-duty vehicles, 2.5% was from heavy-duty vehicles and 0.2% was from buses. In the case of non-road source, the distribution showed that 66.3% was from construction machineries, 14.5% was from locomotives, 11.7% was from ships, 7.1% was from agriculture equipments and 0.5% was from aircrafts. The cold-start emissions were estimated as 942 tons/yr and this value was almost 1.5 times greater than that for hot engine emissions (608 tons/yr). In addition, the fuel-based distribution was 65.9%, 31.1% and 2.8% from gasoline, LPG and diesel vehicles, respectively. The emission ratio from mobile source occupied 65% and 30% of total benzene emissions in USA and UK, respectively. In case of Korea, the emission ratio of benzene from mobile source occupied 29% (15% from on-road source, 14% from non-road source) which showed similar value with UK.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.180-186
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• 2009

To meet the NOx limit without a penalty of fuel consumption, urea SCR system is currently regarded as promising NOx reduction technology for diesel engines. SCR system has to achieve maximal NOx conversion in combination with minimal $NH_3$ slip. In this study, as a basic research to develop an algorithm for urea injection control, the characteristics of engine out NOx emission and behavior of NOx reduction during steady-state and transient conditions were investigated using 2L DI diesel engine. Test results show that on increasing the catalyst temperature the variations in the outlet NOx concentration are faster and maximal allowable $NH_3$ storage exponentially decreases. For change from a low to high engine load, it can be seen that a few seconds after load-step is required to reach full NOx conversion and the adsorbed amount of $NH_3$ at lower temperature desorb during the next temperature increase, causing $NH_3$ slip. Engine out NOx emission needs to be corrected because NOx emissions just after step load is lower than that of steay state condition.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2005

The characteristics of diesel spray have effect on the engine Performance such as power. fuel consumption and emissions. Therefore, This study was Performed to investigate the effect of various injection parameters. In this study. the experiment is performed by using the high temperature and high pressure chamber. Spray behaviors are visualized by using the high speed camera and spray angle. Penetration etc. are measured. Experimental results are summarized as follows ; 1) Correlations of spray Penetration is expressed as follows $$0 $$t_b 2) Correlations of spray Angle is expressed as follows $$T_a=293K \;;\; tan({\theta}/2)=0.59({\rho}_a/{\rho}_f)^{0.437}$$ $$T_a=473K\;;\; tan({\theta}/2)=0.588({\rho}_a/{\rho}_f)^{0.404}$$ 3) The measured macro characteristics - spray tip penetration and spray angle agreed well with established correlations.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.40-46
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• 2020

Inspection of vehicle systems is regularly performed by the state to ensure the emission status and the safety of vehicles. Thereby, the safety and quality of life can be improved by reducing green-house gases and fine dust, which are the main causes of vehicle defects and air pollution. This study analyzed the soot measuring probes used in the free acceleration mode method, at no-load condition, looking at the efficiency of a probe to measure soot emissions from diesel vehicles. In this study, a technique that can improve the inhalation efficiency of the probe over the (a) probes and the improved (b) probes was applied to probes (c). Probe (c) involves a structure designed close to the center of the circumference of the exhaust pipe. Results showed that the suction efficiency was improved by adding a variable center unit.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2006

Recently, there has been an interest in premixed diesel engines as it has the potential of achieving a more homogeneous and leaner mixture close to TDC compared to conventional diesel engines. Because this concept reduced NOx and smoke emissions simultaneously. Early studies are shown that in a HCCI(Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition) engine, the fuel injection timing and intake air temperature affect the mixture formation. The purpose of this study is to investigate characteristics of combustion and mixture formation according to injection timing and intake air temperature in a common rail direct injection type HCCI engine using an early injection method called the PCCI(Premixed Charge Compression Ignition). From this study, we found that the fuel injection timing and intake air temperature affect the mixture formation and in turn affects combustion in the PCCI engine.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.30-37
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• 2007

Dimethyl Ether(DME) is an alternative fuel for diesel engine, it is renewable and offers potential reductions in emissions. This work was conducted to figure out the macroscopic behavior and the atomization characteristics of DME using a common-rail injection system. The macroscopic behavior was visualized with the spray visualization system composed of a Nd;YAG laser and an ICCD camera. The atomization characteristics were investigated in terms of axial mean velocity, Sauter mean diameter(SMD) and droplet distributions obtained from a phase Doppler particle analyzer(PDPA) system. In this study, it was revealed that the macroscopic behavior and the atomization characteristics of DME are similar compared with commercial diesel fuel. However, DME fuel has a shorter spray tip penetration and a small SMD due to the effect of evaporation characteristics.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2007

Carbon monoxide (CO) is not only an important intermediate species in chemical reaction mechanisms of hydrocarbon fuel combustion, but also a crucial pollutant species emitted from automotive engines. To better understand the physical processes impacting CO emissions, the development of laser-based measurement techniques that can visualize in-cylinder CO distributions is desirable. Among these techniques, Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) is a sensitive and species-selective detection technique capable of good spatial resolution. However, some technical matters such as deep UV excitation, severe pressure dependency of the LIF signal, and potential interference from other species have been major challenges for CO LIF application. This study is focused on investigating the feasibility of CO two-photon LIF in a direct-injection diesel engine operating at typical pressure and temperature conditions with commercial grade diesel fuel. Spectroscopic analysis shows that the CO fluorescence signal can be separated from $C_2$ Swan band or broadband fluorescence from PAHs when the signal is collected near 483 nm. The signal-to-noise ratio of CO LIF deteriorate rapidly as pressure is increased, following $P^{-1.49}$ which matches the theoretical signal pressure dependency.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.242-247
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• 2018

지속적으로 강화되는 배기가스 및 연비 규제에 대응하기 위해 자동차 업계에서는 다양한 노력을 하고 있다. 하지만 이로 인해 NVH(Noise, Vibration, and Harshness) 성능이 악화되는 경우들이 많이 발생하고 있다. 사례로 가솔린 엔진의 고압 펌프 소음 및 MPI(Multi-Point Injection)와 GDI(Gasoline Direct Injection)의 듀얼 분사로 인한 가속 천이 소음, 가솔린 터보차저 소음, 디젤 엔진에서의 분사변수 캘리브레이션으로 인해 악화되는 연소음에 대한 원인 및 개선방향을 제시하였다. 이러한 소음들은 고주파 소음으로 운전자에게 거친 청감을 유발하기 때문에 적절한 NVH 대책으로 저감시키는 노력이 반드시 필요하다.