Investigation on effect of equivalence ratio and engine speed on homogeneous charge compression ignition combustion using chemistry based CFD code

2014
Ghafouri, Jafar
Shafee, Sina
Maghbouli, Amin
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<jats:p>Combustion in a large-bore natural gas fuelled diesel engine operating under Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition mode at various operating conditions is investigated in the present paper. Computational Fluid Dynamics model with integrated chemistry solver is utilized and methane is used as surrogate of natural gas fuel. Detailed chemical kinetics mechanism is used for simulation of methane combustion. The model results are validated using experimental data by Aceves, et al. (2000), conducted on the single cylinder Volvo TD100 engine operating at Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition conditions. After verification of model predictions using in-cylinder pressure histories, the effect of varying equivalence ratio and engine speed on combustion parameters of the engine is studied. Results indicate that increasing engine speed provides shorter time for combustion at the same equivalence ratio such that at higher engine speeds, with constant equivalence ratio, combustion misfires. At lower engine speed, ignition delay is shortened and combustion advances. It was observed that increasing the equivalence ratio retards the combustion due to compressive heating effect in one of the test cases at lower initial pressure. Peak pressure magnitude is increased at higher equivalence ratios due to higher energy input.</jats:p>
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Computational fluid dynamics, Chemistry, Equivalence ratio, Homogeneous charge, Compression ignition, Engine speed
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51462
Thermal Science
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Article

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J. Ghafouri, S. Shafee, and A. Maghbouli, “Investigation on effect of equivalence ratio and engine speed on homogeneous charge compression ignition combustion using chemistry based CFD code,” Thermal Science, pp. 89–96, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51462.
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