Assessment and optimization of the indicated cycle with a 0d thermodynamic model
- Autores: Diego Blanco Cavero
- Directores de la Tesis: Jaime Martín Díaz (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de València ( España ) en 2018
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Antonio José Torregrosa Huguet (presid.), Octavio Armas Vergel (secret.), Antonio Arpaia (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Sistemas Propulsivos en Medios de Transporte por la Universitat Politècnica de València
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- Resumen
Issues affecting internal combustion engines, such as pollutant emissions, oil depletion and the raising of alternative powertrains (full electric vehicle), link the future of vehicles powered by this type of powertrain to its improvement in terms of fuel consumption and pollutant emissions. Additionally, the high stringency of the current and upcoming legislation is forcing automotive manufacturers to focus on developing innovative engine strategies aimed to increase the efficiency with low penalty in emissions. A first step to tackle this issue is to focus on the processes occurring in the combustion chamber, which is the core of the engine.
Taking into account this scenario, the main objective of the present work is to assess and optimize the indicated cycle of an internal combustion engine based on a zero-dimensional thermodynamic tool. The coupling of this tool, previously developed in the work group, with a \NOx{} emissions model and an optimization tool allows evaluating the impact on gross indicated efficiency of several operational limits and real processes taking place in the combustion chamber.
Thus, the first step was the assessment of the indicated efficiency of some ideal cycles in the engines studied in the work. Since the difference between ideal and real cycles is due to the existence of some imperfections, a sensitivity study of these imperfections is carried out to determine the ones with the highest impact on gross indicated efficiency. Later on, the optimum theoretical cycles have been searched for, now taking into account the main phenomena occurring in the cylinder, to get the combustion profile that maximizes the indicated efficiency while keeping some mechanical restrictions and emission limits. In this analysis, the combustion velocity raised as the most important parameter to take into account.
In order to assess some experimental techniques commonly used to enhance the combustion velocity, key parameter as commented, different approaches such as Global Energy Balance, split of losses and the use of design of experiments have been conducted. The conclusions extracted from these analysis have been used to optimize experimentally the combustion law. The comparison between this experimental optimization and the theoretical one provides the impact on gross indicated efficiency of the combustion velocity limitation imposed by the engine hardware. This methodology acts as a benchmarking tool between different hardware architectures, setting the efficiency ceiling of the considered operating point, and thus the maximum gain achievable by implementing an hypothetical perfect hardware.
