Effects of Intake Port Optimization on Soot Emission from Diesel Engine

Abstract:

All future engine developments must consider the primary task of achieving the required emission levels. An important step towards the development of combustion engines is the optimization of the flow in the intake ports. The charging movement in the combustion chamber, which is generated by the intake flow, considerably influences the quality of the combustion engine. In this paper, steady CFD analysis were applied to different structures of double-tangent-port. The swirl ratio can be improved while flow coefficient remains unchanged if port eccentricity is 34.4 mm. By defining three characteristic parameters, the speed non-uniformity index, standard deviation and mixture concentration standard deviation and equivalent ratio range, quantitatively describing the combustion process in cylinder, and then compared with transient CFD three-dimensional contours, we can see that characteristic parameters can be more accurate and comprehensive in analyzing the influence of inlet structure of soot formation. Effects of different intake ports on fuel-air mixing in a turbocharged diesel direct injection engine during intake and compression strokes are analyzed. It turns out that the optimized double-tangent-port has the highest uniformity of velocity, in the meanwhile, air/fuel mixing is relatively uniform. On the other hand, mixed-port and double-helix-port can cause uneven flow field which is bad for combustion, even though the swirl ratio can increase largely. Finally, the simulation results show that soot emissions of the optimized double-tangent-port have significantly lower levels, at 2200 r/min under full load.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 535)
• Pages: 333-339
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.535.333
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Yue Chen*, Lin Lv, Jie Shen
• Keywords: CFD, Diesel Engine, Intake Port, Soot

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