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Combustion Analysis of Ammonia/Oxygen Mixtures at Various Equivalence Ratio Conditions Using a Constant Volume Combustor with Sub-chamber Bin Guo; Mitsuhisa Ichiyanagi; Makoto Horie; Keita Aihara; Takuma Ohashi; Abiyasu Zhang; Takashi Suzuki
Automotive Experiences Vol 4 No 3 (2021)
Publisher : Automotive Laboratory of Universitas Muhammadiyah Magelang in collaboration with Association of Indonesian Vocational Educators (AIVE)

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The greenhouse effect issue is becoming more serious, and renewable energy is playing an increasingly important role. Among all alternative fuels, ammonia has been attracting attention as a carbon-free energy carrier for hydrogen, because of its large energy density per volume and easy storage and transportation. On the other hand, ammonia has a low combustion speed, which is an important issue for the use of ammonia as a vehicle fuel. To increase the mean flame speed of ammonia, the present study used the burned gas ejected from the sub-chamber for the compression of the mixture in the main chamber and the promotion of its HCCI combustion. Thus, the constant volume combustor with sub-chamber was used to realize the above combustion and to study the combustion characteristics of ammonia and oxygen mixture. In the experiments, initial pressure and initial temperature were unchanged and only the equivalence ratio was changed. The combustion pressure data were recorded and analyzed. As the result, the maximum combustion pressure (2.5 MPa) was obtained when the equivalence ratio was 0.4. The combustion speed was the fastest when the equivalence ratio was 0.6, and the mean flame speed was about 57.5 m/s.
Experimental Study of Combustion Fluctuation Reduction Using In-Cylinder Pressure Estimation in Gasoline Engine Mitsuhisa Ichiyanagi; Willyanto Anggono; Edyta Dzieminska; Takashi Suzuki
International Journal of Industrial Research and Applied Engineering Vol 3, No 2 (2018)
Publisher : Institute of Research and Community Outreach - Petra Christian University

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Gasoline engines needs to reduce its negative emission waste and raise its thermal efficiency. Previous studies have shown an improvement of engines by regulating the ignition timing and retaining the engine at certain air-to-fuel ratio. Additional development of the thermal efficiency is anticipated by reducing the oscillation of pressure due to combustion (referred to as combustion fluctuation) during each cycle. Reducing the combustion fluctuations promotes the generation of a stable combustion field and improves fuel consumption. Since the combustion fluctuations are significantly affected by the in-cylinder pressure at compression top dead center (referred to as TDC pressure), the present study proposes a method to estimate the TDC pressure in the next cycle. The estimation was conducted by measuring the in-cylinder pressure at exhaust valve opening in the given cycle. This study also developed the method to reduce the combustion fluctuations by using the TDC pressure estimation and controlling the ignition timing. In our experiments, it was found that the developed methods reduced the fluctuations of the indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP), the maximum in-cylinder pressure, and the TDC pressure by 62.1%, 51.2%, and 38.5%, respectively.