3th WCSET-2014 at Nepal
Mechanical Engineering / Sustainable Energy Session:
Title:
Combustion analysis of a dual fuel Diesel engine using a
Two-zone model
Authors:
Krishna Murthy, Shrinivasa Rao B. R., Vijay G. S.,
Madhwesh N.
Abstract: The
steady increases in market price, scarcity of diesel
fuel and high levels of pollution by diesel engines have
compelled their manufactures to look for alternative
fuels for their engines. Dual-fuel engine is one such
alternative where a gaseous fuel can be used along with
a small amount of liquid fuel without incorporating
major design changes in the existing engine. Such
dual-fuel engines exhibit almost similar, sometimes
superior performance characteristics and substantial
reduction in smoke emissions compared to the base-line
diesel engines. In the present study the combustion
analysis of a dual-fuel engine has been carried out by
developing a two-zone combustion model. The heat release
was obtained by using the double Wiebe’s function
separately for the gaseous fuel and the injected diesel
fuel. The analysis was carried out only for the closed
part of the thermodynamic cycle of the engine. The
compression process was analyzed using a single-zone
model and the results of this model were used as input
for the combustion model. The energy balance was carried
out at each time step by considering the interaction
between the two zones as open systems. The energy
balance for the two zones along with the volume
constraint at each time step gave three equations which
were solved using the Genetic Algorithm (GA) to obtain
the in-cylinder pressure, the un-burnt gas temperature,
the burnt gas temperature and the mole fractions. The
mole fractions of eleven products of combustion required
for energy balance were obtained using the Olikera
model. The developed two-zone combustion simulation
model was able to predict the in-cylinder pressure which
was validated using experimental results.
Keywords: Dual fuel engine,
alternative fuel, two zone model, Genetic Algorithm,
in-cylinder pressure, Open system.
Pages:
378-383