Mixture Preparation and Combustion of CNG Low-Pressure Compound Direct Injection Spark-Ignited Engines

A set of compressed natural gas (CNG) multi-point direct injection system of spark-ignited engines and the corresponding measurement and data acquisition systems were developed in this paper. Based on different injection modes, the mixture formation and combustion of CNG low-pressure direct injection (LPDI) engines were studied under varying factors such as air/ fuel ratio, injection timing. Meanwhile, three-dimensional simulations were adopted to explain the mixture formation mechanisms of CNG low-pressure compound direct injection (LPCDI) mode. On the basis of test results and simulation of the mixture homogeneous degree, the conception of injection window was proposed, and the LPCDI mode was proved to be more beneficial to the mixture concentration stratification formation in cylinder under lean-burning conditions, which resulted in effective combustion and stability.

Hydrodynamics of gas-solid fluidization of a homogeneous ternary mixture in a conical bed:Prediction of bed expansion and bed fluctuation ratios

Hydrodynamic characteristics of fluidization in a conical or tapered bed differ from those in a columnar bed because the superficial velocity in the bed varies in the axial direction. Fixed and fluidized regions could coexist and sharp variations in pressure drop could occur, thereby giving rise to a noticeable pressure drop-flow rate hysteresis loop under incipient fluidization conditions. To explore these unique properties, several experiments were carried out using homogeneous, well-mixed, ternary mixtures with three dif- ferent particle sizes at varying composition in gas-solid conical fluidized beds with varying cone angles. The hydrodynamic characteristics determined include the minimum fluidization velocity, bed fluctuation, and bed expansion ratios. The dependence of these quantities on average particle diameter, mass fraction of the fines in the mixture, initial static bed height, and cone angle is discussed. Based on dimensional analysis and factorial design, correlations are developed using the system parameters, i.e. geometry of the bed （cone angle）, particle diameter, initial static bed height, density of the solid, and superficial velocity of the fluidizing medium. Experimental values of minimum fluidization velocity, bed fluctuation, and bed expansion ratios were found to agree well with the developed correlations.

Computational Cavitation Flows at Inception and Light Stages on an Axial-Flow Pump Blade and in a Cage-Guided Control Valve

Cavitation flows induced around an axial-flow pump blade and inside a high pressure cage-type valve are simulated by a two-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes analysis with the simplest treatment of bubble dynamics. The fluid is assumed as a continuum of homogeneous dispersed mixture of water and vapor nuclei. The analysis is aimed to capture transient stages with high amplitude pressure change during the birth and collapse of the bubble especially at the stage of cavitation inception. By the pump blade analysis, in which the field pressure is moderate, cavitation number of the inception and locations of developed cavitation are found to agree with experimental results in a wide flow range between high incidence and negative incidence. In the valve flow analysis, in which the water pressure of 5MPa is reduced to 2MPa, pressure change responding to the bubble collapse between the vapor pressure lower than 1 KPa and the extreme pressure of higher than 104 KPa is captured through a stable computation. Location of the inception bubble and pressure force to the valve plug is found agree well with the respective experimental features.

Computational and experimental investigation of laminar flow mixing system in a pitched-blade turbine stirred tank

The flow distribution and mixing performance of the laminar flow in the PBT impeller-stirred tank were investigated in this study.The variation along with mixing time of the flow distribution and concentration at the selected positions was visualized by means of the CFD and experiment methods.The CFD simulations results had a good agreement with the experimental results.In order to minish the Segregated Regions,the PBT impeller was optimally designed by means of orthogonal factorial experiment with selecting theθ99 mixing time as evaluation criteria.With the aim to increase the mixing efficiency,the optimal design results were obtained with the geometrical parameters of impeller diameter of 0.084 m,discharge angle of 45º,blade width of 0.018 m,and clearance of 0.05 m,and the mixing time of the optimal impeller-stirred flow was about 180 s,so this optimal design PBT impeller is more proper for the agricultural industries.

Flame Propagation Through Concentration Gradient

The experiment was carried out in homogeneous propane-air mixture and in several concentration gradient of mixture. Igniter is put on the upper side of the combustion chamber In concentration gradient experiment, fixture was ignited from lean side. An experimental study was conducted in a combustion chamber. The combustion chamber has glass windows for optical measurements at any side. For the measurement of distribution of fuel concentration, infrared absorption method using 3.39μm He-Ne laser was used, and for the observation of propagating flame, Schlieren method was employed. As a measurement result of flame propagation velocity and flammable limit, for a mixture of an identical local equivalence ratio, flame propagation velocity in concentration gradient is faster than that in homogeneous mixture, and rich flammable limit in concentration gradient shows a tendency to be higher than that in homogeneous mixture.