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Ducted fuel injection: A new approach for lowering soot emissions from direct-injection engines

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  • Mueller, Charles J.
  • Nilsen, Christopher W.
  • Ruth, Daniel J.
  • Gehmlich, Ryan K.
  • Pickett, Lyle M.
  • Skeen, Scott A.

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Designers of direct-injection compression-ignition engines use a variety of strategies to improve the fuel/charge-gas mixture within the combustion chamber for increased efficiency and reduced pollutant emissions. Strategies include the use of high fuel-injection pressures, multiple injections, small injector orifices, flow swirl, long-ignition-delay conditions, and oxygenated fuels. This is the first journal publication on a new mixing-enhancement strategy for emissions reduction: ducted fuel injection. The concept involves injecting fuel along the axis of a small cylindrical duct within the combustion chamber, to enhance the mixture in the autoignition zone relative to a conventional free-spray configuration (i.e., a fuel spray that is not surrounded by a duct). The results described herein, from initial proof-of-concept experiments conducted in a constant-volume combustion vessel, show dramatically lower soot incandescence from ducted fuel injection than from free sprays over a range of charge-gas conditions that are representative of those in modern direct-injection compression-ignition engines.

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  • Mueller, Charles J. & Nilsen, Christopher W. & Ruth, Daniel J. & Gehmlich, Ryan K. & Pickett, Lyle M. & Skeen, Scott A., 2017. "Ducted fuel injection: A new approach for lowering soot emissions from direct-injection engines," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 204(C), pages 206-220.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:204:y:2017:i:c:p:206-220
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.07.001
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    Soot; Duct; Diesel; Spray; Mixing; Combustion;
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