High boost and direct injection are the main tendency of gasoline engine technology. However, pre-ignition/super-knock tends to occur at low-speed high-load conditions, which is the main obstacle for improving power density and fuel economy. This work distinguished the relationship between super-knock and pre-ignition by experimental investigation and numerical simulation. The experiment was conducted on a turbocharged gasoline direct injection engine with compression ratio of 10. The engine was operated at an engine speed of 1750 r/min and the brake mean effective pressure of 2.0 MPa under stoichiometric conditions. Super-knock is the severe engine knock triggered by pre-ignition. Pre-ignition may lead to super-knock, heavy-knock, slight-knock, and non-knock. Significantly advancing spark timing can only simulate pre-ignition, not super-knock. Although knock intensity tends to increase with earlier pre-ignition timing, higher unburned mixture fraction at start of knock, and higher temperature and pressure of the unburned mixture at start of knock, knock intensity cannot be simply correlated to any of the parameters above. A one-dimensional model is set up to numerically simulate the possible combustion process of the end-gas after pre-ignition. Two distinct end-gas combustion modes are identified depending on the pressure and temperature of the mixture: deflagration and detonation. Hot-spot in the mixture at typical near top dead center pressure and temperature condition can only induce deflagration. Hot-spot in the unburned end-gas mixture at temperature and pressure conditions above ’’deto-curve’’ may induce detonation. The mechanism of deto-knock may be described as hot-spot-triggered pre-ignition followed by hotspot- induced deflagration to detonation.


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    Title :

    Relationship between super-knock and pre-ignition




    Publication date :

    2015




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    BKL:    52.35 Kolbenkraftmaschinen / 52.35



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