Study of Steady State and Transient EGR Behaviour of a Medium Duty Diesel Engine
Date Published: 2008-10-06
Paper Number:2008-01-2438
DOI: 10.4271/2008-01-2438
Citation:
Kalsi, K., Collings, N., Heaton, D., and Faulkner, S., "Study of Steady State and Transient EGR Behaviour of a Medium Duty Diesel Engine," SAE Technical Paper 2008-01-2438, 2008, doi:10.4271/2008-01-2438.
It is well known that accurate EGR control is paramount to controlling engine out emissions during steady state and transient operation of a diesel engine. The direct measurement of EGR is however non-trivial and especially difficult in engines with no external EGR control where the intake manifold CO
2
levels can be measured more readily. This work studies the EGR behaviour in a medium duty diesel engine with a passive EGR rebreathing strategy for steady state and transient operation. High speed (response time ∼1ms) in-cylinder sampling using modified GDI valves is coupled with high frequency response analysers to measure the cyclic in-cylinder CO
2
, from which the EGR rate is deduced.
It was found that controlling the EGR using the passive rebreathing strategy during certain combined speed and load transients is challenging, causing high smoke and NO emissions. The in-cylinder sampling method coupled with fast CO2 measurement (time constant ∼8ms) in the exhaust port gave insights about the EGR rate during these transients. The complex interaction of the manifold pressures, turbo-charger operation and trapped charge composition from the previous cycle simply can cause high dilution and therefore high smoke levels. The steady state variation of NO emissions with respect to EGR is also studied using a fast NO analyzer (time constant ∼2ms) in the exhaust port. Cyclic variation was found to be up to ±5% at some load conditions.
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