Experimental and Numerical Assessment of Active Pre-chamber Ignition in Heavy Duty Natural Gas Stationary Engine Istituto Motori CNR - Univ. "Parthenope"

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Onofrio, Gessica, author.

Contributor:

Beatrice, Carlo

De La Morena, Joaquin

Garcia Valladolid, Pablo

Garcia, Antonio

Li, Changle

Tunestal, Per

Conference Name:

WCX SAE World Congress Experience (2020-04-21 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2020

Summary:

Gas engines (fuelled with CNG, LNG or Biogas) for generation of power and heat are, to this date, taking up larger shares of the market with respect to diesel engines. In order to meet the limit imposed by the TA-Luft regulations on heavy duty engines, lean combustion represents a viable solution for achieving lower emissions as well as efficiency levels comparable with diesel engines. Leaner mixtures however affect the combustion stability as the flame propagation velocity and consequently heat release rate are slowed down. As a strategy to deliver higher ignition energy, an active pre-chamber may be used. This work focuses on assessing the performance of two pre-chambers with different nozzle orifice diameters, in a stationary heavy-duty engine for power generation, operating at different loads, equivalence ratios and spark timings. The engine was originally a 6-cylinder compression ignition engine which is here employed as a single cylinder engine and then suitably modified to host the pre-chamber (with its natural gas injection system and spark plug) with a new bowl piston to decrease compression ratio. A 0D model is built to make a thermodynamic analysis to characterize the local conditions in the pre-chamber before spark timing (temperature, pressure and composition), based on a compressible nozzle equation for the mass transfer between the chambers and a simplified Woschni model for the pre-chamber's heat transfer. Experimental results showed the beneficial effect of spark delay and mixture leaning for the reduction of NOx emissions, while CO, unburned hydrocarbons and engine performance see improvement with lower air-to-fuel ratios and spark advance. As for the nozzle comparison, the smaller orifice configuration showed more flexibility when changing the parameters in pursuit of the engine performance target and combustion stability, especially at lower loads

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Publisher Number:

2020-01-0819

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