Title
In-cylinder pressure statistical analysis and digital signal processing methods for studying the combustion of a natural gas/diesel heavy-duty engine at low load conditions
Date Issued
01 October 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
In-cylinder pressure analysis is one of the most important tools for combustion diagnosis. The dual-fuel compression ignition engines present a different in-cylinder pressure evolution for consecutive cycles due to the high cyclic variability. One source of the cyclic variability is a long ignition delay caused by a low-temperature combustion chamber (at low load conditions) and this effect led to lower efficiency, higher emissions, and driveability problems. In the present study, a six-cylinder turbocharged heavy-duty diesel engine (6.7 L) was used to acquire the in-cylinder pressure signal at low-load operating conditions. Then a statistical methodology is proposed to process the experimental pressure signal for a combustion diagnosis approach obtained at different loads for diesel mode and dual fuel mode. First, a representative sample number of consecutive thermodynamic cycles is determined, and then the cut-off frequencies for in-cylinder pressure signal digital filtering are selected by the analysis of the Fourier Transform spectrum for the test engine using only diesel fuel and natural gas/diesel mode. The results show an effective high-frequency noise diminish (related to the resonance combustion chamber) on the filtered pressure signals. Therefore, a high-quality curve of the heat release rate can be reached, which allows identifying the combustion process at low-loads operating conditions.
Volume
269
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería mecánica
Bioproductos (productos que se manufacturan usando biotecnología), biomateriales, bioplásticos, biocombustibles, materiales nuevos bioderivados, químicos finos bioredivados
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85136460450
Source
Energy Conversion and Management
ISSN of the container
01968904
Sponsor(s)
This material is based upon work supported by Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. The authors gratefully acknowledge PUCP's Energy Laboratory for their technical assistance in this research.
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