Fujun Zhang

Calibration for Fuel Injection Parameters of the Diesel Engine Working at Plateau via Simulating

In order to simulate the engine plateau characteristics, the 0-D Predictable Combustion Model Based on Neural Network was put forward firstly. Based on this combustion model, the integrated turbocharged diesel engine numerical model was established and then validated by experimental data. For the sake of improving engine performance at plateau, a measure is introduced in this study, which adapts the fuel injecting parameters at various altitude environments. And then the method to calibrate the injection parameters is proposed. Thus, three different simulating schemes at plateau environment had been put forward and the simulation results were compared later. Eventually, the outcome demonstrates that it is effective to advance injecting timing together with adjusting fuel mass; for instance, the rated power will recover to 89.7% of the plain value, once applying this adaption method at 4500 m altitude.

Modeling and Simulation of an Opposed-piston Two-stroke Diesel Engine

An opposed-piston two-stroke engine has been investigated. A singer cylinder engine mode has been built to research the scavenging performance at different scavenging pressure and engine performance at full load. The result shows that, scavenging performamce influence by engine speed and trapping ratio and opposed-piston get higher break efficiency because of the lower heat transfer loss and higher expanding work.

Torsional Vibration Active Control of a Diesel Engine Based on Adjustment of the Fuel Injection Vector

The torsional vibration of a crankshaft greatly affects engine performance, and the control and suppression of such vibration have thus always been a focus of engine research. The introduction of an electronic fuel-injection system for the diesel engine has made it possible to control individual cylinders, thus providing a new way to actively control the torsional vibration of a diesel engine. A V8 diesel engine model for co-simulation between crankshaft dynamics and engine performance was established with GT-SUIT software, and the model was verified by experiment data. The active control of crankshaft torsional vibration of a diesel engine by adjusting the fuel injection vector was simulated. First, the amplitude–frequency and phase–frequency characteristics of the excitation torque under different fuel-injection-vector conditions were analyzed. On the basis of the frequency characteristics, different active vibration-suppression schemes were studied, and the crankshaft vibration suppression effects were compared. The simulation results show that adjusting the fuel injection vector is an effective approach for controlling the torsional vibration of an engine crankshaft.Copyright

Opposed-Piston Two-Stroke Diesel Engine Scavenging System Structural Optimization Based on GA-SVM

Opposed-Piston Two-Stroke (OP2S) diesel engines have been successfully used in many applications because of its high power efficiency. Uniform scavenging is used on OP2S diesel engines. Different from conventional diesel engine exchanging systems, intake ports and exhaust ports are located at each sides of the cylinder as OP2S scavenging system. A scavenging system optimization method, Genetic Algorithm-Support Vector Machine (GA-SVM), which employs Indicated Mean Effective Pressure (IMEP) as optimization goal is presented. The combinations of five key parameters including the width and length of intake and exhaust ports and the crank asymmetric angle are designed. All these combinations are calculated by GT-Power. The predicting model of OP2S diesel engine`s IMEP is built based on the 1D results. After verifying the accuracy of the predicting model, the optimized parameters are found. The results illustrate: using 1-D simulation coupled GA-SVM to optimize scavenging parameters in OP2S diesel engines is a rapid and effective method. The optimized IMEP is 12.86 bar. This paper presents some guidelines in the further OP2S diesel engines research. Introduction The opposed-piston two-stroke engine (OP2S) concept came into being in 1850`s. Wittig, a German engineer, designed and manufactured the world`s first coal gas fuel opposed-piston engine [1].From then on, many novel designs were brought out on aircrafts, marines and vehicles such as TS-3 engine manufactured by British Rootes company and 6-TD engine from Ukraine. However, rigid emission legislations slowed down the development of opposed-piston engines after 1970`s. In recent years, with the improvement of modern analytical tools, materials, and fuel supply system, engines from FEV, EcoMotor and Achates Power company have performed well in many fields [2,3,4,5,6]. OP2S draw more and more attention once again because of its simple, lightweight, high efficiency and high power density [7]. In OP2S scavenging system, two pistons reciprocate opposite to each other in a common cylinder, piston port timings are controlled by two pistons. With this structural design, the need for cylinder head and valve mechanism are eliminated. In order to achieve better scavenging performance, larger ports area is wanted. However, according to the research by Peter Hofbauer [8], although larger intake and exhaust ports area can achieve better scavenging performance, shorter compression and expansion processes are inevitable. This will lead to the decrease of power efficiency. Zhenyu Zhang [9] also found larger crank asymmetric angle is benefit to the scavenging efficiency meanwhile compression ratio and expansion ratio decrease along with the increase of the crank asymmetric angle. This is also unfavorable to the development of engine performance. Therefore, in optimizing OP2S scavenging process, only taking scavenging efficiency into account is unreasonable. Thermal efficiency should also be taken into account. With the consideration of this, IMEP is selected as optimizing goal. In engine scavenging system optimization area, two simulation approaches are widely used. The first one is Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method using such as AVL-Fire, Star-CD. The CFD method can model the scavenging process with complex geometries. However, its calculation time is very long. This is unfavorable in initial engine designing. The second one is a predictive simulation method which is required to determine basic engine parameters in order to shorten the development time [10]. GT-Power is always the priority choice. Compared with detailed simulation, the 1D simulation has simpler model and it has lower demands with calculation. So 1-D simulation 154 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Copyright

Simulation Study of the Control Method of Adjustable Composite Supercharging System at Plateau

This paper carried out study of the control method of the adjustable composite supercharging system. Based on the steady-state switching boundary, the composite supercharging system transient switching process simulation was researched. Focused on the two parameters, the intake bypass valve opening or closing time and the supercharger speed gradient, the influence of the transient switching process of supercharger on the diesel engine were studied. On this basis, the transient switching method of composite supercharging system was created and verified through the computer simulation.