Experimental study on knocking combustion in compressionignition engines under high-altitude conditions
H Y Li, X Q Zhang, Yongping Qiang, Weiqing Zhu, Y Z Li, Y F Li
Abstract
Abstract Diesel engine combustion becomes very rough or even detonation under high altitude conditions, which is harmful to components durability. In this study, combustion characteristics were experimentally investigated on a V6 heavy-duty diesel engine using by a plateau simulation test bench to simulate altitude conditions of 1000 m, 3000 m and 4500 m. Results show that extremely high peak pressure rise rates of above 50bar/°CA exist at low speeds under the altitude of 4500 m. This indicates that not only does knocking combustion exist in spark-ignition (SI) engines, but also can be found in compression-ignition (CI) engines. Knock intensity (KI) is calculated by the pressure oscillation with high-pass filtering (HPF). Approach of cycle to cycle variation was adopted to study combustion characteristics on the comparisons of knock and non-knock states. Also, the correlation between KI and peak pressure rise rate was revealed through the linear regression method.