Effects of pre-spark heat release on engine knock limit

Derek A. Splitter; Arthur Gilliam; James Szybist; Jaal Ghandhi

doi:10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.145

Effects of pre-spark heat release on engine knock limit

Derek A. Splitter, Arthur Gilliam, James Szybist, Jaal Ghandhi

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Abstract

It is well known that spark ignited engine efficiency is limited by end gas autoignition, commonly known as knock. This study focuses on a recently discovered phenomena, pre-spark heat release (PSHR) due to low-temperature chemistry, and its impact on knock behavior. Boosted operating conditions are more common as engines are downsizing and downspeeding in efforts to increase fuel economy and prone to PSHR. Experiments were prone at fixed fueling and air fuel ratio for a range of intake temperature that spanned the threshold for PSHR. It was found that when PSHR occurred, the knock-limited combustion phasing was insensitive to intake temperature; higher intake temperatures did not require retarded timings as it is usual. Inspection of the temperature-pressure history overlaid on ignition delay contours allow the results to be explained. The temperature rise from the low-temperature reactions moves the end gas state into the negative temperature coefficient (NTC) region, which terminates the heat release reactions. The end gas then resides in the long ignition delay peninsula, which inhibits knock.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4893-4900
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
Volume	37
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.145
State	Published - 2019

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Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). This research was conducted as part of the Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines (Co-Optima) initiative sponsored by the US Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Bioenergy Technologies and Vehicle Technologies Offices. Co-Optima is a collaborative project of multiple national laboratories initiated to simultaneously accelerate the introduction of affordable, scalable, and sustainable biofuels and high-efficiency, low-emission vehicle engines. Special thanks to program managers Kevin Stork, Gurpreet Singh, Leo Breton, and Mike Weismiller.

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US Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Bioenergy Technologies
U.S. Department of Energy

Keywords

Chemical kinetics
Knock
Low temperature chemistry
Pre spark heat release
SI Engines

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