Lean combustion is an effective way for improving the SI (spark-ignited) engine performance. Unfortunately, due to the narrow flammability of gasoline, the pure gasoline-fuelled engines sometimes suffer partial burning or misfire at very lean conditions. Hydrogen has many excellent combustion properties that can be used to extend the gasoline engine lean burn limit and improve the gasoline engine performance at lean conditions. In this paper, a 1.6 l port fuel injection gasoline engine was modified to be a HHGE (hybrid hydrogen-gasoline engine) fuelled with the hydrogen-gasoline mixture by mounting an electronically controlled hydrogen injection system on the intake manifolds while keeping the original gasoline injection system unchanged. A self-developed HECU (hybrid electronic control unit) was used to flexibly adjust injection timings and durations of gasoline and hydrogen. Engine tests were conducted at 1400 rpm and a MAP (manifolds absolute pressure) of 61.5 kPa to investigate the performance of an HHGE at lean burn limits. Three hydrogen volume fractions in the total intake gas of 1 %, 3 % and 4.5 % were adopted. For a specified hydrogen volume fraction, the gasoline flow rate was gradually reduced until the engine reached the lean burn limit at which the COVimep (coefficient of variation in indicated mean effective pressure) was 10 %. The test results showed that COVimep at the same excess air ratio was obviously reduced with the increase of hydrogen enrichment level. The excess air ratio at the lean burn limit was extended from 1.45 of the original engine to 2.55 of the 4.5 % HHGE. The engine brake thermal efficiency, CO, HC and NO(x) emissions at lean burn limits were also improved for the HHGE.


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    Titel :

    Experimental study on combustion and emissions performance of a hybrid hydrogen-gasoline engine at lean burn limits


    Beteiligte:
    Ji, Changwei (Autor:in) / Wang, Shuofeng (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2010


    Format / Umfang :

    10 Seiten, 10 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 40 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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