Heat Release Rate Analysis

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Heat Release Rate and Performance Simulation of Dimethyl Ether fueled Diesel Engine by Oxygenate Correction Factor ABSTRACT: The performance of a diesel engine is altered by the use of oxygenated fuels, because the fuel borne oxygen alters heat release rate. A rapid model to simulate the heat release rate of a diesel engine fueled with dimethyl ether is developed to analyze the performance improvement. Usually, pressure-time profile is measured first during an experiment. The heat release rate and temperature-time profile is calculated from the pressure-time profile and considered as experimental profiles because direct measurement of them is difficult. However, the heat release rate profile is synthesized first in the simulation and then…show more content…
As the harmful emissions are reduced by the assistance of fuel borne oxygen in the combustion of oxygenated fuels, it is necessary to analyze the assistance of fuel borne oxygen in reducing fuel consumption and thereby increasing performance. Improvements in performance can be easily measured and analyzed with experiments. The Larger number of oxygenated fuels are available commercially in the market and conducting experiments over them is time consuming and not economical too. Screening of oxygenated fuels prior to experimental investigation by computer simulation of the CIDI engine cycle would overcome the time and cost constraints. Hence the need for the CIDI engine performance predictive model development with oxygenated fuels is a justified and inevitable one. A comprehensive thermodynamic model of generic nature is necessary to carry out the performance simulation. The model developed in this research work is capable of simulating the performance of the CIDI engine with diesel and oxygenated…show more content…
The gas properties including burned gas equilibrium composition are used in this simulation. The combustion process is modeled by the Wiebe function which is a mass fraction burn equation. The gas inside the cylinder is considered as a thermodynamic system. The engine is considered in steady-state in which the thermodynamic system at the beginning (suction stroke) and end (exhaust stroke) of each cycle is in the same state. The cylinder contents are assumed spatially homogeneous occupying in a single zone for the compression, expansion, intake and exhaust processes. Combustion process is considered with two zones, each of which is spatially homogeneous. The two zones are: the unburned zone and burned zone. The thermodynamic properties, pressure and temperature vary only with crank angle. The instantaneous composition of cylinder contents are obtained from mass fraction burned and the cylinder contents are assumed to obey the ideal gas equation of state. The established equations [8] are used to compute the instantaneous thermodynamic properties based on the appropriate compositions. The manifolds are considered to be infinite plenums having gases at constant temperature and

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