Investigations of multiple injection strategies for the improvement of combustion and exhaust emissions characteristics in a low compression ratio (CR) engine

Applied Energy

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5013-5019

  Suh, Hyun Kyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Combustion stability; Indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP); Low compression ratio engine; Multiple injection strategies; Reduction of exhaust emissions

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY); DIESEL ENGINES; ENGINES; REDUCTION; SOOT;

CO FORMATION; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COMBUSTION EFFICIENCIES; COMBUSTION PRESSURE; COMBUSTION PRO-CESS; COMBUSTION STABILITY; EXHAUST EMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; HC EMISSIONS; INDICATED MEAN EFFECTIVE PRESSURE; MAXIMUM RATE OF HEAT RELEASE; MAXIMUM VALUES; MULTIPLE INJECTIONS; PILOT INJECTION; RATE OF HEAT RELEASE; SIMULTANEOUS REDUCTION;

COMBUSTION;

COMBUSTION; COMPRESSION; ENGINE; EXHAUST EMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRESSURE EFFECT;

EID: 80052272782     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.06.048     Document Type: Article

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