Comparative investigation on macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of impingement spray of gasoline and ethanol from a GDI injector under injection pressure up to 50 MPa

TY - JOUR

T1 - Comparative investigation on macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of impingement spray of gasoline and ethanol from a GDI injector under injection pressure up to 50 MPa

AU - Li, Xiang

AU - Li, Dayou

AU - Dimitriou, Pavlos

AU - Ajmal, Tahmina

AU - Aitouche, Abdel

AU - Mobasheri, Raouf

AU - Rybdylova, Oyuna

AU - Pei, Yiqiang

AU - Peng, Zhijun

PY - 2023/12/1

Y1 - 2023/12/1

N2 - Particulate Matter (PM) emissions from passenger vehicles have attracted considerable interest over the last decade. In order to reduce PM emissions, improving maximum injection pressure has been a developing trend for new generation GDI engines. However, comparing gasoline and ethanol impingement spray characteristics from a GDI injector under high injection pressure is still unclear. In this paper, a comparative investigation on both the macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of impingement spray from a GDI injector fuelled with gasoline and ethanol was performed under injection pressure up to 50 MPa, providing new findings to promote a more homogeneous air–fuel mixture and reduce PM emissions. The experimental results show that under the same (injection pressure), rebound height of gasoline impingement spray is a bit higher than ethanol. (spray area) of gasoline is slightly higher than ethanol under . However, under and , of gasoline is gradually exceeded by that of ethanol as time progresses. By increasing to 50 MPa, the difference in (diffusion distance of the near side) between gasoline and ethanol is greatly reduced, meantime (diffusion distance of the far side) becomes weaker than ethanol. For both gasoline and ethanol, with the increase from 10 MPa to 50 MPa, (average normal component of droplet velocity) and (average tangential component of droplet velocity) of incident droplets increase by around 1 m/s. Meantime, there is a slight decrease in the absolute value of and of reflected droplets. (Sauter mean diameter of droplets) presents a significant decreasing trend with the increase of . Besides, a smaller can be seen for the gasoline impingement spray compared to ethanol under the same .

AB - Particulate Matter (PM) emissions from passenger vehicles have attracted considerable interest over the last decade. In order to reduce PM emissions, improving maximum injection pressure has been a developing trend for new generation GDI engines. However, comparing gasoline and ethanol impingement spray characteristics from a GDI injector under high injection pressure is still unclear. In this paper, a comparative investigation on both the macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of impingement spray from a GDI injector fuelled with gasoline and ethanol was performed under injection pressure up to 50 MPa, providing new findings to promote a more homogeneous air–fuel mixture and reduce PM emissions. The experimental results show that under the same (injection pressure), rebound height of gasoline impingement spray is a bit higher than ethanol. (spray area) of gasoline is slightly higher than ethanol under . However, under and , of gasoline is gradually exceeded by that of ethanol as time progresses. By increasing to 50 MPa, the difference in (diffusion distance of the near side) between gasoline and ethanol is greatly reduced, meantime (diffusion distance of the far side) becomes weaker than ethanol. For both gasoline and ethanol, with the increase from 10 MPa to 50 MPa, (average normal component of droplet velocity) and (average tangential component of droplet velocity) of incident droplets increase by around 1 m/s. Meantime, there is a slight decrease in the absolute value of and of reflected droplets. (Sauter mean diameter of droplets) presents a significant decreasing trend with the increase of . Besides, a smaller can be seen for the gasoline impingement spray compared to ethanol under the same .

KW - Spray characteristics

KW - Impingement spray

KW - GasolineEthanol

KW - Gasoline direct injection (GDI) injector

KW - Injection pressure

U2 - 10.1016/j.egyr.2023.01.024

DO - 10.1016/j.egyr.2023.01.024

M3 - 文章

SN - 2352-4847

VL - 9

JO - Energy Reports

JF - Energy Reports

ER -