Experimental Study on Thermal Balance of Regulated Two-Stage Turbocharged Diesel Engine at Variable Altitudes

It is significant to study thermal balance of diesel engine under different variable geometry turbocharger(VGT)vane openings at variable altitudes,which is helpful to assess the heat distribution,control the heat load and improve the heat efficiency of the diesel engine.A thermal balance test system was built to study the influence of the VGT vane opening angles on a regulated two-stage turbocharged(RTST)diesel engine’s thermal balance performance.The experiment was conducted under full load operating conditions at different altitudes(0 m,3500 m and 5500 m).Results indicated that the heat load of engine increased and the thermal efficiency decreased with the increase of altitudes under all operating conditions.As the VGT vane openings increased,the exhaust and maximum combustion temperature increased,while the maximum cylinder combustion pressure decreased.In particular,the maximum combustion temperature was more than 2000 K when the VGT vane openings were greater than 70%at the altitude of 5500 m,and the maximum combustion pressure exceeded 17 MPa when the opening of VGT vane was 70%at 0 m.The thermal efficiency of the engine decreased with the increase of VGT vane openings at the altitudes of 0 m and 5500 m,but the thermal efficiency increased and then decreased at the altitude of 3500 m.It was finally obtained that the best openings of VGT vane was 80%,60%and 50%under the engine speed of 2100 r/min at 0 m,3500 m and 5500 m,respectively.

Effect of the injection pressure and orifice diameter on the spray characteristics of biodiesel

The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of the injection pressure and orifice diameter on the spray characteristics of soybean biodiesel.The macroscopic spray characteristics of the spray tip penetration(STP)and spray cone angle(SCA)were tested with a high-speed camera system.The microscopic spray characteristics,such as the statistical size distribution,Sauter mean diameter(SMD),representative diameters and dispersion boundary,were obtained using a Malvern laser particle size analyzer(PSA).The test results showed that with an increasing injection pressure,the STP and the SCA of the biodiesel increased,but the curves of size-volume distribution and cumulative volume distribution of the atomized droplets shifted to smaller diameters.The SMD and representative diameters decreased,and the dispersion boundary was reduced.Moreover,with a decreasing orifice diameter,longer STP and smaller SCA values were observed.Similarly,the size distribution curves of the atomized biodiesel droplets shifted to smaller diameters.The SMD and representative diameters were reduced,and the relative size range of the atomized biodiesel droplets was enlarged.Higher injection pressures and smaller orifice diameters improved the biodiesel atomization;however,the smaller orifice diameters caused an inhomogeneous size distribution of the atomized biodiesel droplets.

Total loads modeling and geological adaptability analysis for mixed soil-rock tunnel boring machines

Rock-soil interface mixed ground(RSI)is often encountered in tunnel construction.The excavation loads of tunnel boring machines(TBMs)are controlled by the interaction characteristics between TBM and rock/soil layers.The different properties of rock and soil cause the varying interaction range and stress distribution.Currently,there have been several studies available to estimate excavation loads under RSI,and the conclusion is that the total loads increase with increasing the rock layer proportion in the excavation face.However,the previous studies cannot take the difference of rock/soil properties into account,except for the calculation of cutters loads.Therefore,the interaction characteristics between RSI and TBM is unclear.This paper analyzes the interaction characteristics between TBM’s main components and complex geological conditions(e.g.,layered soil,layered rock,and RSI condition).A model is proposed to calculate the total thrust and total torque assuming quasi-static equilibrium of the tunneling equipment.The rationality and applicability of the model are discussed and verified by two typical projects.Furthermore,the geological adaptability is discussed in terms of the excavation difficulty and the matching relationship between total torque and total thrust.The results indicate that when the rock layer proportion in the excavation face increases,the reduction of overall extrusion and friction loads is 1.5 times higher than the increase of disc cutters breaking load.The total loads and the ratio of the total torque to total thrust decrease approximately linearly.There is a power function relationship between the excavation difficulty index and the penetration depth.The results of this study provide an important reference for the total loads design of equipment propulsion systems and the parameter adjustment during tunnel construction.