High EGR rates combined with turbocharging has been identified as a promising way to increase the maximum load and efficiency of heavy duty spark ignition engines. With stoichiometric conditions a three way catalyst can be used which means that regulated emissions can be kept at very low levels. Obtaining reliable spark ignition is difficult however with high pressure and dilution. There will be a limit to the amount of EGR that can be tolerated for each operating point. Open loop operation based on steady state maps is difficult since there is substantial dynamics both from the turbocharger and from the wall heat interaction. The proposed approach applies standard closed loop lambda control for controlling the overall air/fuel ratio for a heavy duty 6-cylinder port injected natural gas engine. A closed loop load control is also applied for keeping the load at a constant level when using EGR. Furthermore, cylinder pressure based dilution limit control is applied on the EGR in order to keep the coefficient of variation at the desired level of 5%. This way confirms that the EGR ratio is kept at its maximum stable level all times. Pumping losses decrease due to the further opening of the throttle, thereby the gas exchange efficiency improves and since the regulator keeps track of the changes the engine all the time operates in a stable region. Our findings show that excellent steady-state performance can be achieved using closed loop combustion control for keeping the EGR level at the highest level while the stability level is still good enough.


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    Title :

    Closed-Loop Combustion Control for a 6-Cylinder Port-Injected Natural-gas Engine


    Additional title:

    Sae Int. J. Fuels Lubr
    Sae International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    2008 SAE International Powertrains, Fuels and Lubricants Congress ; 2008


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2008-06-23


    Size :

    10 pages




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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