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In this thesis various aspects of the diesel engine fuel injection, combustion and emission formation processes have been evaluated. Several types of evaluation tools and methods have been applied. Fuel spray momentum was used to characterize injection rate and hole-to-hole variations in fuel injectors. Using both instantaneous fuel impulse rates and instantaneous mass flow measurements, spray velocity and nozzle flow parameters were evaluated. Several other hole-to-hole resolved injector characterization methods were used to characterize a set of fuel injectors subjected to long term testing. Fuel injector nozzle hole-to-hole variations were found to have a large influence on engine efficiency and emissions. The degree of hole-to-hole variations for an injector has been shown to correlate well with the performance deterioration of that injector. The formation and atomization of fuel sprays, ignition onset and the development of diffusion flames were studied using an optical engine. Flame temperature evaluations have been made using two different methods. NO-formation depends strongly on flame temperature. By applying a NO-formation evaluation method based on both heat release rate and flame and gas temperature it was possible to achieve a reasonable degree of correlation with measured exhaust emissions for very varying operating conditions. The prediction capability of the NO-formation evaluation method was utilized to evaluate spatially and temporally resolved NO-formation from flame temperature distributions. This made it possible to pinpoint areas with a high degree of NO-formation. It was found that small hot zones in the flames can be responsible for a large part of the total amount of NO that is produced, especially in combustion cases where no EGR is used to lower the flame temperature. By applying optical diagnostics methods the combustion and emission formation phenomena encountered during production engine transients were evaluated. The transient strategy of the engine involved reducing the EGR-rate to zero during the initial parts of the transient. Increased general flame temperature and the occurrence of small hot zones were found to explain the increase in NO-emissions during these transients. / QC 20110530

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Orientador: Sergio Santos Mühlen / Dissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T19:10:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Hernandes_MarceloRocha_M.pdf: 3294457 bytes, checksum: d5c6210ad1c775f02c1a394d65ab908c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: A questão da partida a frio de motores movidos a Diesel ainda é um problema que não foi apropriadamente resolvido e se torna particularmente crítico em face da tendência de redução de níveis de emissões de poluentes a baixas temperaturas e da taxa de compressão do motor visando redução do consumo de combustível. Embora esteja claro que existem alguns fatores-chave que levam a um apropriado processo de partida a frio, sua relevância e relações não são claramente compreendidas. Assim, os esforços para a otimização do processo de partida a frio são principalmente baseados em procedimentos de tentativa e erro em câmaras climáticas a baixas temperaturas, com sérias limitações em termos de confiabilidade da medição em algumas condições, baixa repetibilidade e altos custos com experimentos. O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar os componentes auxiliares de partida a frio dos motores a Diesel com o intuito de adquirir conhecimento sobre este tema para aplicação em propulsores, de maneira que estes possam ser utilizados em regiões com temperaturas negativas com desempenho confiável. Os componentes estudados serão apresentados, bem como sua aplicação e importância na tarefa de proporcionar as condições adequadas à partida a frio do motor. Além disso, uma visão geral será dada em relação à contribuição que estes componentes trazem na redução de emissões de poluentes e consumo de combustível / Abstract: Cold start in Diesel engines is a problem which has not yet been properly solved and becomes particularly critical with the current trend to reduce the emission levels at low temperatures and engine compression ratio addressed to fuel consumption decrease. Although it is clear that there are some key factors whose control leads to a proper cold start process, their individual relevance and relations are not clearly understood. Thereby, the efforts on optimization of the cold start process are mainly based on a trial-and-error procedure in climatic chambers at low ambient temperature, with serious limitations in terms of measurement reliability, low repeatability and high experiments costs. The objective of this work is to study cold start auxiliary components of Diesel engines in order to acquire knowledge on this topic for application in engines in a way that they can be used in regions with low temperatures with reliable performance. The components studied will be presented, as well as its application and importance of providing appropriate conditions to engine cold start. In addition, an overview will be given on the contribution that these components are going to bring in the reduction of emissions and fuel consumption / Mestrado / Eletrônica / Mestre em Engenharia Automobilistica

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