On-board diagnostic (OBD) regulations require that the fuel system in personal vehicles must be supervised for leakages. Legislative requirement on the smallest leakage size that has to be detected is decreasing and at the same time the requirement on the number of leakage checks is increasing. A consequence is that detection must be performed under more and more diverse operating conditions. This paper describes a vacuum-decay based approach for evaporative leak detection. The approach requires no additional hardware such as pumps or pressure regulators, it only utilizes the pressure sensor that is mounted in the fuel tank. A detection algorithm is proposed that detects small leakages under different operating conditions. The method is based on a first principles physical model of the pressure in the fuel tank. Careful statistical analysis of the model and measurement data together with statistical maximum-likelihood estimation methods, results in a systematic design procedure that is easily tuned with few and intuitive parameters. The approach has been successfully evaluated on a production engine and fuel system setup in a laboratory environment.


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    Title :

    Leakage detection in a fuel evaporative system


    Additional title:

    Leckdetektion in einem Kraftstoff-Verdunstungssystem


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Control Engineering Practice ; 17 , 11 ; 1273-1279


    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    7 Seiten




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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