PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF DIESEL COMBUSTION IN A QUIESCENT COMBUSTION CHAMBER

An 8.5 inch bore two stroke engine has been modified into a photographic test rig in which pictures of the complete combustion chamber could be taken vertically upwards through a perspex crowned piston, using a high speed camera. Tests were carried out using several nozzles of the same total hole area. Two fuelling rates and three different air supply pressures were used. At each test condition thirteen cycles of fired data were recorded on 16 mm high speed colour film. At the same time synchronised transient cylinder pressure and fuel injection data were recorded using an on-line data acquisition system. Correlation of jet development from photographs with heat release deduced from the cylinder pressure diagrams using a standard single zone technique show differences due to changes in the hole configuration and in air supply pressure, with approximately constant fuel injection rates.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • A Worldwide View of Diesel Combustion Emissions and Analysis, P-130. International Off-Highway Meeting and Exposition Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 12-15, 1983.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

  400 Commonwealth Drive
  Warrendale, PA  United States  15096
• Authors:
  • Falcus, M
  • Clough, E
  • Whitehouse, N D
  • Nowell, E
• Publication Date: 1983-9

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 45-52
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Arbetarskyddsfonden
  • Publisher: Arbetarskyddsfonden

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Combustion chambers; Diesel engines; Fuel injection; Photography
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00382401
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Files: HSL, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 30 1984 12:00AM