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Numerical Investigation Of Spray Characterization Of Heater-Gdi System, Ashwin Karthik Purushothaman
Numerical Investigation Of Spray Characterization Of Heater-Gdi System, Ashwin Karthik Purushothaman
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports
Gasoline engines require fuel enrichment at low temperature cranking (cold start) conditions for efficient engine operation. Since the amount of fuel injected is high at cold start to compensate low fuel evaporation, fuel sprays tend to impinge on the cold surfaces of the piston and cylinder walls leading to the formation of excessive unburned hydrocarbons. One of the ways to ensure reliable cold start performance and to reduce UHC emissions is to have the fuel subjected to preheating. The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of fuel preheating on Gasoline Direct Injection sprays to improve the mixture …
Identification Of Heat Release Shapes And Combustion Control Of An Ltc Engine, Radhika Sitaraman
Identification Of Heat Release Shapes And Combustion Control Of An Ltc Engine, Radhika Sitaraman
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports
Low Temperature Combustion (LTC) regimes have gained attention in internal combustion engines since they deliver low nitrogen oxides (NOx) and soot emissions with higher thermal efficiency and better combustion efficiency, compared to conventional combustion regimes. However, the operating region of these high-efficiency combustion regimes is limited as it is prone to knocking and high in-cylinder pressure rise rate outside the engine safe zone. By allowing multi-regime operation, high-efficiency region of the engine is extended. To control these complex engines, understanding and identification of heat release rate shapes is essential. Experimental data collected from a 2 liter 4 cylinder LTC engine …
High-Performance Zero Liquid Discharge (Zld) Treatment Of High-Salinity Brines Using A Multiple-Effect Absorption Distillation Concept, Sunil Pinnu
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports
State-of-the-art zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technologies are currently bound with either intensive use of high-grade electrical energy such as mechanical vacuum vapor compressors utilized in brine crystallizers or high capital cost with environmental concerns such as evaporation ponds. The present study aims to address these issues by an innovative desiccant-based ZLD system in which a multiple-effect distillation (MED) unit is uniquely embedded at the heart of an absorption-desorption system. Here, the MED and absorption systems are inherently coupled enabling both heat and mass transfer processes between a high-salinity water and a desiccant solution. The proposed technology employs an absorption-based thermally-driven …
Generation Of Premix Laminar Flame Speed Library, Sai Prashanth Kumar
Generation Of Premix Laminar Flame Speed Library, Sai Prashanth Kumar
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports
The Laminar flame speed is an essential parameter in measuring turbulent premixed combustion applied in Spark ignition engines. Instead of using power-law correlations, which is valid only for particular ranges, the procedure for generating a premixed laminar flame speed library is defined using MTU – Master mechanism for a wide range of charge mixture conditions inside an engine combustion chamber: Temperature (300 – 700 K), Pressure (1 – 70 bar) and reactant mixture composition of equivalence ratio (0.4 – 2.0) Laminar flame speed library is generated for methane. The mechanism's performance was improved by adjusting the pre-exponential factor of the …
Design, Build, And Analysis Of A Compressed Natural Gas Direct Injection Compression Ignition Single Cylinder Research Engine, Tyler Miller
Design, Build, And Analysis Of A Compressed Natural Gas Direct Injection Compression Ignition Single Cylinder Research Engine, Tyler Miller
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports
Both experimental and simulation efforts have been employed to further advance the design and build of a single cylinder research engine. The engine will aid in advancing technology and understanding the operation of compression-ignition (CI) engines using natural gas within the heavy-duty engine industry. The basis for the engine is a Cummins 15L ISX engine that has been modified, retrofitted, and instrumented to allow for late-cycle direct-injection of high-pressure compressed natural gas. Along with the engine build, a one-dimensional GT-Power simulation model has been created and used to analyze the engine operation and specify components including the engine compression ratio …
Efficient Enhancement Of Micro-Nucleation Rates In Flow-Boiling - By Concurrent Micro-Structuring Of The Boiling-Surface And Its Judicious Energization By Piezoelectric-Transducer Induced Acoustic Vibrations., Atharva Rahane
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports
The report describes the science and technology backgrounds and uses for the technology breakthrough reported for enhanced flow-boiling based cooling of high-power density electronics (chips, memory etc.). A controlled but explosive growth in micro-scale nucleation rates during flow-boiling of HFE-7100 (electronics and environment friendly liquid from 3M, Inc) is enabled by the uses of inexpensive meshed-copper for micro-structuring of the boiling surface and a pair of Piezoelectric-transducers for active imposition of suitable acoustic vibrations. The pair of piezo transducers mounted just outside the mini-channel impose “in plane” acoustic vibrations of controllable amplitudes and frequencies, and they are used to induce …
Assessment And Improvement Of Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods For Separated Turbulent Flows At Low Reynolds Numbers, Tom Mancuso
Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports
This study investigates the accuracy of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models to predict heat transfer in turbulent separated flows at low Reynolds numbers. A novel improvement of a Scale Adaptive technique is also presented. A spectrum of turbulence models is used to simulate flow and heat transfer of two geometries; fully developed flow through a staggered tube bank and a square prism in cross flow. Experimental data for both local heat transfer and velocity data are available in the literature for these cases and have been used extensively evaluate various CFD methods. Six unsteady models were used and the results …