In this research, propane flash boiling sprays discharged from a five-hole gasoline direct injector were studied in a constant volume vessel. The fuel temperature (Tfuel) ranged from 30 °C to 90 °C, and the ambient pressure (Pamb) varied from 0.05 bar to 11.0 bar. Different flash boiling spray behavior compared to that under sub-atmospheric conditions was found at high Pamb. Specifically, at the sub-atmospheric pressures, the individual flashing jets merged into one single jet due to the strong spray collapse. In contrast, at Pamb above 3.0 bar and Tfuel above 50 °C, the spray collapse was mitigated and the flashing jets were separated from each other. Further analyses revealed that the mitigation of spray collapse at high Pamb was ascribed to the suppression of jet expansion. In addition, it was found that the spray structure was much different at similar Rp, indicating that Rp lacked the generality in describing the structure of flash boiling sprays. The results also revealed that the low-pressure zone induced by high-speed jet movement was compensated under flash boiling conditions, which confirmed that the mechanism of spray collapse under flash boiling conditions was different from that at non-flash-boiling conditions.


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    Title :

    Characterizing Propane Flash Boiling Spray from Multi-Hole GDI Injector


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:
    Guo, Hengjie (author) / Xu, Hongming (author) / Ma, Xiao (author) / Li, Yanfei (author) / Shen, Yitao (author) / Wang, Zhi (author) / Zhang, Zhou (author)

    Conference:

    WCX World Congress Experience ; 2018



    Publication date :

    2018-04-03




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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