Mohd Azlan Fahmi, Muhammad Azmi and Mohd Fadzil, Abdul Rahim and Rizalman, Mamat (2022) Simulation of direct injection, mixing and combustion of CNG fuel in a single - cylinder engine with different injector orientations using CFD. In: IET Conference Proceedings. 2022 Engineering Technology International Conference, ETIC 2022 , 7 - 8 September 2022 , Kuantan, Virtual. pp. 83-90., 2022 (22). ISSN 2732-4494 ISBN 978-183953782-0 (Published)
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Abstract
The direct injection system is widely used in the automotive industry, especially for performance enhancement and cleaner emissions. The study proposed a direct injection system in a small, single-cylinder compressed natural gas engine. However, its compactness provides a minimum space for direct injector installation. Therefore, a suitable injector orientation that meets space availability and is practically effective must be determined. The main objective is to determine the best injector orientation for the direct injection process using computational fluid dynamics by analysing the effect of top and side injection on the cylinder flow pattern, in-cylinder pressure and temperature. The analysis was performed by using Ansys Fluent. The dynamic mesh strategy is utilised to ensure a realistic solution of in-cylinder flow, gaseous injection, mixing and combustion. Based on the visualisation results, it is found that the injector orientation affects the overall injected mass of fuel by deteriorating the injection penetration, injection velocity and spray cone, as demonstrated by the top injection case. As a result, the methane mass fraction in the cylinder is reduced. The plotted results showed the side injection has a higher cold flow and combustion pressure and temperature with values of 112.38 bar and 3834.3 K, while the top injection has 98.99 bar and 2381.1 K. Even though the simulation overpredicted the pressure and temperature for both cases, because of inaccurate convective heat transfer solution, the resultant pressures and temperatures provide a valuable indication of how the injector orientation affects the overall direct injection of natural gas engine's performance. In the current study, the side injection performed better than the top injection. The side injection produced a higher pressure and temperature because the higher mass was transferred during the side injection. The study provided valuable insights into the ideal direct injection of compressed natural gas.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CFD; CNG; Direct injection; Engine; Orientation injector |
| Subjects: | T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics |
| Faculty/Division: | College of Engineering Faculty of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering Technology |
| Depositing User: | Mr Muhamad Firdaus Janih@Jaini |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Sep 2024 04:43 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2024 04:43 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/42090 |
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