• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.141-147
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• 2012

A direct injection diesel engine with large amount of exhaust gas recirculation was used to investigate low temperature diesel combustion. Pilot injection strategy was adopted in low temperature diesel combustion to reduce high carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions. Combustion characteristics and exhaust emissions of low temperature diesel combustion under different pilot injection timings, pilot injection quantities and injection pressures were analyzed. Retarding pilot injection timing, increasing pilot injection quantity and higher injection pressure advanced main combustion timing and increased peak heat release rate of main combustion. As a result of these strategies, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions were reduced. Soot emission was slightly increased with retarded pilot injection timing while the effect of pilot injection on nitrogen oxides emission was negligible under low combustion temperature condition. Spatial distribution of fuel from the spray targeting visualization was also investigated to provide more insight into the reason for the reduction in carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.16-23
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• 2011

Low temperature combustion is one of the advanced combustion technology in an internal combustion engine to reduce soot and nitrogen oxides simultaneously. In present experiment three kinds of injector were used to investigate the influence of injection angle and number of nozzle holes on the low temperature combustion in a heavy duty diesel engine. Low temperature diesel combustion is realized from the exhaust gas recirculation rate of 60%. Indicated mean effective pressure of low temperature combustion corresponds to the 70% level of conventional diesel engine combustion. Reduction of hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide, which are produced in low temperature combustion because of the low combustion temperature and a deficit of oxygen, was achieved by using various injector configuration. The result of experiment with $100^{\circ}$ injection angle and 8 holes showed that reductions in hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide could be achieved 58% and 27% respectively maintaining the 7% increased indicated mean effective pressure in low temperature diesel combustion compared with conventional injector.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.12-20
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• 2013

The ignition delay time is an important factor to understand the combustion characteristics of internal combustion engine. In this study, ignition delay times of cool and thermal flame were observed separately in homogeneous charge compression ignition(HCCI) engine. This study presents numerical investigation of ignition delay time of n-heptane and alcohol(ethanol and n-butanol) binary fuel. The $O_2$ concentration in the mixture was set 9-10% to simulate high exhaust gas recirculation(EGR) rate condition. The numerical study on the ignition delay time was performed using CHEMKIN codes with various blending ratios and EGR rates. The results revealed that the ignition delay time increased with increasing the alcohol fraction in the mixture due to a decrease of oxidation of n-heptane at the low temperature. From the numerical analysis, ethanol needed more radical and higher temperature than n-butanol for oxidation. In addition, thermal ignition delay time is sharply increasing with decreasing $O_2$ fraction, but cool flame ignition delay time changes negligibly for both binary fuels. Also, in high temperature regime, the ignition delay time showed similar tendency with both blends regardless of blending ratio and EGR rate.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국연소학회 2013년도 제46회 KOSCO SYMPOSIUM 초록집
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• pp.25-28
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• 2013

This study presents both experimental and numerical investigation of ignition characteristics of n-heptane and n-butanol mixture. The $O_2$ concentration was fixed to 9-10% to make high exhaust gas recirculation(EGR) rate condition. Experiments were performed using a rapid compression machine. In addition, a numerical study of the ignition delay time was performed using CHEMKIN codes to validate experimental results and predict chemical species after combustion process. The results showed that the ignition delay time increased with increasing n-butanol ratio and the reactivity decreased by low $O_2$ concentration.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.21-26
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• 2013

Diesel low temperature combustion (LTC) is the concept where fuel is burned at a low temperature oxidation regime so that $NO_x$ and particulate matters (PM) can simultaneously be reduced. There are two ways to realize low temperature combustion in compression ignition engines. One is to supply a large amount of EGR gas combined with advanced fuel injection timing. The other is to use a moderate level of EGR with fuel injection at near TDC which is generally called Modulated kinetics (MK) method. In this study, the effects of fuel injection pressure on performance and emissions of a single cylinder engine were evaluated using the latter approach. The engine test results show that MK operations were successfully achieved over a range of with 950 to 1050 bar in injection pressure with 16% $O_2$ concentration, and $NO_x$ and PM were significantly suppressed at the same time. In addition, with an increase in fuel injection pressure, the levels of smoke, THC and CO were decreased while $NO_x$ emissions were increased. Moreover, as fuel injection timing retarded to TDC, more THC and CO emissions were generated, but smoke and $NO_x$ were decreased.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2021

디젤엔진의 열효율을 높이면서 NOx와 PM을 효과적으로 저감시키기 위해 HCCI(Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition), PCCI(Premixed Charge Compression Ignition), RCCI(Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition) 등의 저온연소(LTC: Low Temperature Combustion)전략이 개발되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 저반응성 연료로는 가솔린을 사용하고 고반응성 연료로는 디젤을 사용하는 RCCI 엔진에서 고반응성 연료인 디젤연료의 분사 시기와 이단 분사비율이 성능 및 배출가스에 미치는 영향을 수치해석을 통하여 파악하고자 하였다. 이단 분사 시 첫 번째 분사시기가 너무 진각되면 연소가 느려지면서 연소온도가 낮아져 연소성능이 저하되고 HC, CO가 증가한다. 대략 -60°ATDC 의 분사시기가 연소성능, 배출가스 및 최대압력상승률을 고려하였을 때 가장 최적의 분사시기라고 판단된다. 이단 분사 시 두 번째 분사시기를 변경하였을 때 연소성능 및 배출가스, 최대압력상승률 등을 고려하면 대략 -30°ATDC 부근에서 최적인 것으로 판단된다. 이단 분사 시 분사량 비율은 첫 번째 분사량을 60% 정도로 하였을 때 최적의 결과를 얻었다. 마지막으로 단일 분사보다는 이단 분사한 경우 연소성능 및 배출가스 부분에서 더 효과적인 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.105-110
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• 2011

Through this study, the performance evaluation on the addition of low-pressure loop EGR(Exhaust Gas Recirculation) in a 6.0 L commercial diesel engine was carried out using WAVE modeling and simulation. Since the key technology of advanced diesel engine combustion such as low-temperature combustion is to steadily supply high rates of EGR in a wide operating range, the current study could be effectively contribute to the design and development processes of up-to-date diesel engine systems as real-world reference data. The current simulation results show that the system in which low-pressure loop EGR is added shows almost 2.3 times increase in maximum EGR rate at 1000 rpm as well as almost 1.6 times increase at 2200 and 1600 rpm in comparison with an engine system employing high-pressure loop EGR only. Also, both turbocharger axis speed and charging pressure level did not deteriorate due to the addition of low-pressure loop EGR at 2200 and 1000 rpm, but they were fairly decreased at 1600 rpm.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.32-41
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• 2013

This study presents both experimental and numerical investigation of ignition delay time of n-heptane and n-butanol binary fuel. The $O_2$ concentration in the mixture was set to 9-10% to make high exhaust gas recirculation( EGR) rate condition which leads low NOx and soot emission. Experiments were performed using a rapid compression machine(RCM) at compressed pressure 20bar, several compressed temperature and three equivalence ratios(0.4, 1.0, 1.5). In addition, a numerical study on the ignition delay time was performed using CHEMKIN codes to validate experimental results and predict chemical species in the combustion process. The results showed that the ignition delay time increased with increasing the n-butanol fraction due to a decrease of oxidation of n-heptane at the low temperature. Moreover, all of the binary fuel mixtures showed the combustion characteristics of n-heptane such as cool flame mode at low temperature and negative-temperature-coefficient(NTC) behavior. Due to the effect of high EGR rate condition, the operating region is reduced at lean condition and the ignition delay time sharply increased compared with no EGR condition.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.110-115
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• 2012

This study describes the characteristics of combustion and exhaust emission in the special engine applying a fuel reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI) concept with two different energizing type (solenoid and piezoelectric) injectors for diesel injection. A diesel-gasoline mixed dual-fuel reactivity controlled compression ignition concept is demonstrated as a promising method to achieve high thermal efficiency and low emission in internal combustion engines for transportation vehicles. For investigating the combustion characteristics of RCCI, engine experiments were performed in a light-duty diesel engine over a range of injection timing and mixing rate of gasoline in mass. It was investigated that by increasing the nozzle hole diameter, increasing the combustion pressure and the net indicated mean effective pressure. $NO_x$ and soot can be reduced by advancing start of injection in 84 mixing rate of gasoline in mass. The resulting operation showed that light duty engine could achieve 48 percent net indicated efficiency and 191[g/kW-hr] net indicated specific fuel consumption with lower levels of nitrogen oxides and soot.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제36권11호
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• pp.1065-1072
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• 2012

바이오디젤 연료는 그 안에 포함된 산소성분으로 인해 압축착화엔진에 사용했을 때 일반디젤 연료보다 더 적은 입자상 물질을 배출한다. 따라서 이 연료를 저온연소 기법에 적용하는 경우 보다 효과적으로 $NO_x$-PM을 동시 저감할 수 있고 그로부터 저온연소 운전영역의 확장을 기대할 수 있다. 이번 연구에서는 일반디젤과 대두유 기반의 바이오디젤 연료를 이용하여 산소농도 5~7%의 Dilution controlled regime에서 저온연소 운전을 구현하고 성능 및 배기 특성을 조사하였다. 엔진 실험 결과로부터 바이오디젤 연료의 경우 디젤에 비해 약 14% 낮은 발열량에도 불구하고 높은 세탄가 및 함산소 성질로 인한 연소효율 증가로 동일 연료량 분사 시 이보다 더 낮은 약 10~12% 정도의 출력이 감소함을 볼 수 있었다. 배기 측면에서도 바이오디젤 내 산소원자가 입자상물질의 산화반응을 촉진하여 최대 90%의 smoke 저감이 가능함을 관찰하였다. 또한 엔진 과급 실험으로부터 과급을 사용하여 저온연소 및 바이오디젤 사용으로 인한 출력 저하를 개선할 수 있음을 확인하였으며 과급과 바이오디젤 연료의 동시 적용을 통해 산소농도 11~12%의 EGR 가스 투입으로도 저온연소에 상응하는 PM-$NO_x$ 동시 저감이 가능함을 보여주었다. 이런 결과는 결국 이와 같은 과급 및 바이오디젤 연료의 적절한 조합으로부터 엔진 출력 향상과 배기특성 개선이 동시에 달성할 수 있고 이로부터 운전영역의 확대가 가능함을 의미한다.