The effect of compression ratio on exhaust emissions from a PCCI diesel engine

O. Laguitton; Cyril Crua; T. Cowell; Morgan Heikal; M.R. Gold

doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2007.07.016

The effect of compression ratio on exhaust emissions from a PCCI diesel engine

O. Laguitton, Cyril Crua, T. Cowell, Morgan Heikal, M.R. Gold

University of Brighton

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Abstract

A description of the development of a single cylinder test facility is presented, being based on a production 4-cylinder DI Diesel engine and designed to allow study of the emissions characteristics over a very wide range of operating conditions. The objective was to establish how engine out NOx emissions can be reduced to the estimated levels required by the next emissions target ‘Euro 6’ and thus be able to apply the findings to the original 4-cylinder engine and minimise the requirement for currently immature NOx after treatment. It has been proposed that further reduction in compression ratio beyond current levels would be beneficial to engine out emissions and specific power, and could be facilitated by developments in cold start technology. The results of a study using this single cylinder facility to evaluate the effect of reducing compression ratio from 18.4 to 16.0 are presented. It was found that, although there was a small CO and HC penalty, either reducing the compression ratio or retarding the injection timing greatly reduced NOx and soot emissions when both premixed and diffusion-combustion phases were present. This effect was less significant when the combustion was solely premixed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2918-2924
Number of pages	7
Journal	Energy Conversion & Management
Volume	48
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2007.07.016
Publication status	Published - 17 Sept 2007

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This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Energy Conversion & Management. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Energy Conversion & Management, 48, 11, 2007 DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2007.07.016

Keywords

Diesel emissions
Diesel combustion strategies
Compression ratio

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The effect of compression ratio on exhaust emissions from a PCCI diesel engine

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