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. 2022 May 31;8(6):e09602.
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09602. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Numerical study of different shape design of piston bowl for diesel engine combustion in a light duty single-cylinder engine

Habtamu Deresso  1 , Ramesh Babu Nallamothu  1 , Venkata Ramayya Ancha  2 , Bisrat Yoseph  3
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Numerical study of different shape design of piston bowl for diesel engine combustion in a light duty single-cylinder engine

Habtamu Deresso et al. Heliyon. .

Abstract

Diesel engine is the prime mover on land transportation industry and used in a variety of power generation applications due to their higher fuel efficiency. However, the engine research community faces a major hurdle rigorous restriction introduced in the Glob to reduce pollutant emissions from internal combustion engines. Different piston bowl shape designs allows more precise mixing before combustion to enhance in the optimization using computational calculations to reduce emissions. The investigation was to reduce the NOx and PM emissions using combustion simulation comparing with each piston of a single-cylinder engine at a CR of 24, 4-stroke, and water-cooled Engine. The four piston bowl shapes of DSEVL2 BMW M47T, Shallow Hesselman, Lombardini 15LD350, and DOOSANP158FE were analyzed by the Diesel-RK combustion simulation. After successful validating; the simulation model shows that the peak cylinder pressure of Piston-2 is 131bar and the peak cylinder pressure of Piston-4 is 113bar. The Maximum Cylinder Temperature of the Piston-2 is 2048.2k, and the lowest value of Cylinder Temperature of the Piston-4 is 1680.9k the cylinder temperature of Piston-2 is 18% higher than Cylinder Temperature of Piston-4. The simulation result indicates that the temperature is within the acceptable limit in between 1400-2000k except for the piston temperature of 2048.2k. The PHRR of the Piston-3 is 0.082 with great variation in between maximum and minimum due to the presence of pre-and post-injection, the HRR-P4 is 0.035 J/°CA with the single injections. The HRR of the Piston-3 is the highest while HRR of the Piston-4 lowest with 39%. The NOx in the exhaust gas is 25.62 in the NOx piston-1; 16 in NOx of Piston-2, 18.2 in NOx-P3, and NOx-P4 is 12.74 g/kWh respectively. The NOx of the NOx-P2 is lower than first and second piston due to the lower fuel fraction of NWF dilution outer the sleeve, low fuel fraction in core of the free spray, low fuel fraction in fronts of the free spray, low fuel fraction in the core of the fuel free spray. The Particulate Matter emission in PM-P1 is 0.35, and PM-P2 is 0.43 ​g/kWh which is higher than all the other. Although there is a substantial decrease in PM, a penalty in NOx is observed for PM-P1 but PM of the P2 is higher after the peak result of emission.

Keywords: Conventional diesel combustion; Emissions; Heat release rate; Oxides of nitrogen; Particulate matter; Piston bowl shape design.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Figure 1
In-cylinder different Piston bowl Geometries.
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Figure 2
In-cylinder pressure of various PBG [bar].
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Figure 3
Engine setup configuration. Where: DAQ-is data acquisition system, AFM- Air flow meter, ECDC-Eddy current dynamometer, EGA-Exhaust gas analyzers.
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Figure 4
a:spray & near wall fuel dilute, b: Core of free spray, c: Front of free spray and d: Core of near wall flow.
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Figure 5
In-cylinder temperature of various PBSG [K].
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Figure 6
The Heat release rate of various PBG.
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Figure 7
NOx emissions concentrations [g/kWh].
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Figure 8
PM concentrations [g/kWh].
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Figure 9
The motion of EFM from injection, spray front zone, and spray tip (A. S. Kuleshov, 2006a; Sureshkannan et al., 2019).
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Figure 10
Diesel fuel spray zone division diagram (A. S. Kuleshov, 2006a, Diesel-rk, 2005).
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Figure 11
The combustion simulation results of spry core, dilute, front and NWF effects of the piston bowl Shape.
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Figure 12
Spray angle and tip penetrations of the single injection.
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Figure 13
Spray angle of the triple (pilot, main and Post) fuel injection.
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Figure 14
Spray Tip penetrations of the triple (pilot, main and Post) fuel injection.
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