Influence of Disturbances in the Process of Fuel Injection on the Working Processes in the Cylinder Diesel Engine

 

Željko Bulatović

Dragan Knežević

Miodrag Milić

 

Unevenness of working processes in diesel engine cylinders can happen for several reasons. The two most influential factors to this phenomenon, which are related to disturbances in the fuel injection process are: disturbances in terms of the current position (rotation angle) of the crankshaft when the fuel injection in one of the cylinders starts, so-called pre-injection angle, and disturbances in the quantity of fuel that is supplied to individual cylinders during one work cycle, the so-called cycle amounts of fuel. These disturbances are more prominent in classical, mechanical fuel injection systems (high-pressure pump, pump-injector, etc.), and very often can not be prevented during the out engine testing and the fuel injection system adjustments. The simulation of disturbances described under real operating conditions of diesel engines, and expanding the knowledge of their individual and joined impact on the working processes in cylinders, is not at all simple. However, today there are commercial software which have built-in modules based on the proven equations of thermodynamics, combustion theory and the theory of flow, which makes it possible to carry out these simulations by using a computer. One such software is AVL BOOST. The simulation results obtained using this and similar software can be more reliable than simulations in real conditions of the engine, because in the mechanical fuel injection system it is very difficult to quantify the degree of the disturbance which is to be simulated. The given results can be used to develop methods of identifying the impact of described disturbances on the mean indicated pressure of each cylinder, as well as the entire engine, a more accurate assessment of mechanical losses (degree of mechanical utility), etc.

 

Key words: IC engine, diesel engine, engine cylinder, working process, fuel injection, pre-injection angle, pressure measurement