Experimental diesel spray characterization of the medium-duty injector with single- and multi-hole nozzle configurations under non-reacting, non-vaporizing conditions
Characteristics of diesel sprays injected through Cummins medium-duty ISB injectors were studied experimentally in an optically accessible constant-volume combustion vessel. The experiments were performed with ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) under non-reacting and non-vaporizing conditions, including...
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author | Ji-Woong Park Ji-Woong Park Shirin Jouzdani Tom Tzanetakis Henry Schmidt William Atkinson Jeffrey Naber Yuanjiang Pei Feng Tao Rajesh Garg David Langenderfer Yu Zhang Sibendu Som |
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description | Characteristics of diesel sprays injected through Cummins medium-duty ISB injectors were studied experimentally in an optically accessible constant-volume combustion vessel. The experiments were performed with ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) under non-reacting and non-vaporizing conditions, including different ambient gas densities (23–65 kg/m3), injection pressures (500–1,500 bar), and injection duration times (0.5–1.5 ms). The ambient temperature of the vessel was maintained at a room temperature of 313 K for all the tests. A systematic comparison was made between single-hole (SH) and multi-hole (MH) injector configurations. A plume-to-plume variation in spray penetration length was observed for various operating conditions. A substantial deviation was observed for a specific hole against the averaged plume, indicating that arbitrary selection of the plume index may result in inaccurate spray characterization of the MH injector. The penetration length of the MH injector was shorter than that of the SH injector under the same operating conditions, indicating that a spray model calibrated on SH injector data may not accurately predict the transient spray behavior of the MH injector in practical engine simulations. A square-root correlation of the spray penetration length was applied for both the SH and MH injectors. The spray penetration length and dispersion angles of the ISB SH injector were also compared with those of the heavy-duty Cummins ISX SH injector. While the ISX SH injector showed a faster penetration than the ISB SH injector, the dispersion angle was similar. The differences in spray penetration between ISB and ISX injectors followed the expected trend based on their nozzle hole diameters. |
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spelling | doaj.art-74619b97cdd447a8b87113aba0aaed822022-12-22T01:26:39ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering2297-30792022-08-01810.3389/fmech.2022.931377931377Experimental diesel spray characterization of the medium-duty injector with single- and multi-hole nozzle configurations under non-reacting, non-vaporizing conditionsJi-Woong Park0Ji-Woong Park1Shirin Jouzdani2Tom Tzanetakis3Henry Schmidt4William Atkinson5Jeffrey Naber6Yuanjiang Pei7Feng Tao8Rajesh Garg9David Langenderfer10Yu Zhang11Sibendu Som12Aramco Americas: Aramco Research Center–Detroit, Novi, MI, United StatesArgonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United StatesMichigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United StatesAramco Americas: Aramco Research Center–Detroit, Novi, MI, United StatesMichigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United StatesMichigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United StatesMichigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United StatesAramco Americas: Aramco Research Center–Detroit, Novi, MI, United StatesCummins Inc., Columbus, IN, United StatesCummins Inc., Columbus, IN, United StatesCummins Inc., Columbus, IN, United StatesAramco Americas: Aramco Research Center–Detroit, Novi, MI, United StatesArgonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United StatesCharacteristics of diesel sprays injected through Cummins medium-duty ISB injectors were studied experimentally in an optically accessible constant-volume combustion vessel. The experiments were performed with ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) under non-reacting and non-vaporizing conditions, including different ambient gas densities (23–65 kg/m3), injection pressures (500–1,500 bar), and injection duration times (0.5–1.5 ms). The ambient temperature of the vessel was maintained at a room temperature of 313 K for all the tests. A systematic comparison was made between single-hole (SH) and multi-hole (MH) injector configurations. A plume-to-plume variation in spray penetration length was observed for various operating conditions. A substantial deviation was observed for a specific hole against the averaged plume, indicating that arbitrary selection of the plume index may result in inaccurate spray characterization of the MH injector. The penetration length of the MH injector was shorter than that of the SH injector under the same operating conditions, indicating that a spray model calibrated on SH injector data may not accurately predict the transient spray behavior of the MH injector in practical engine simulations. A square-root correlation of the spray penetration length was applied for both the SH and MH injectors. The spray penetration length and dispersion angles of the ISB SH injector were also compared with those of the heavy-duty Cummins ISX SH injector. While the ISX SH injector showed a faster penetration than the ISB SH injector, the dispersion angle was similar. The differences in spray penetration between ISB and ISX injectors followed the expected trend based on their nozzle hole diameters.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmech.2022.931377/fulldieselspray characterizationmulti-hole injectorsingle-hole injectornon-reactingnon-vaporizing |
spellingShingle | Ji-Woong Park Ji-Woong Park Shirin Jouzdani Tom Tzanetakis Henry Schmidt William Atkinson Jeffrey Naber Yuanjiang Pei Feng Tao Rajesh Garg David Langenderfer Yu Zhang Sibendu Som Experimental diesel spray characterization of the medium-duty injector with single- and multi-hole nozzle configurations under non-reacting, non-vaporizing conditions Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering diesel spray characterization multi-hole injector single-hole injector non-reacting non-vaporizing |
title | Experimental diesel spray characterization of the medium-duty injector with single- and multi-hole nozzle configurations under non-reacting, non-vaporizing conditions |
title_full | Experimental diesel spray characterization of the medium-duty injector with single- and multi-hole nozzle configurations under non-reacting, non-vaporizing conditions |
title_fullStr | Experimental diesel spray characterization of the medium-duty injector with single- and multi-hole nozzle configurations under non-reacting, non-vaporizing conditions |
title_full_unstemmed | Experimental diesel spray characterization of the medium-duty injector with single- and multi-hole nozzle configurations under non-reacting, non-vaporizing conditions |
title_short | Experimental diesel spray characterization of the medium-duty injector with single- and multi-hole nozzle configurations under non-reacting, non-vaporizing conditions |
title_sort | experimental diesel spray characterization of the medium duty injector with single and multi hole nozzle configurations under non reacting non vaporizing conditions |
topic | diesel spray characterization multi-hole injector single-hole injector non-reacting non-vaporizing |
url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmech.2022.931377/full |
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