{"title":"Comparison and analysis of modern combustion powertrain systems of rail vehicles","authors":"Pawel Daszkiewicz, Daniel Kołodziejek","doi":"10.19206/ce-171385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19206/ce-171385","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the currently used technologies and solutions for rail vehicle drive systems that can be used in the future. The most popular systems used in locomotives and multiple units are described. In addition, modern solutions such as bi-mode locomotives and hybrid vehicles are shown. The article also discusses the possibility of using ultracapacitors, batteries or fuel cells in order to increase the efficiency of the powertrain of a rail vehicle. The selection of the appropriate solution depends on the intended use of the vehicle and the assumed traction characteristics and requires a thorough analysis including, among others, modeling of the drive system and its management.","PeriodicalId":34258,"journal":{"name":"Combustion Engines","volume":"24 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136159028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Borys Adamiak, Andrzej Szczotka, Joseph Woodburn, Jerzy Merkisz
{"title":"Comparison of exhaust emission results obtained from Portable Emissions Measurement System (PEMS) and a laboratory system","authors":"Borys Adamiak, Andrzej Szczotka, Joseph Woodburn, Jerzy Merkisz","doi":"10.19206/ce-172818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19206/ce-172818","url":null,"abstract":"Exhaust emissions testing of vehicles under real driving conditions (real driving emissions, RDE) using portable exhaust emissions measurements systems (PEMS) was introduced a few years ago by the European Commission as a mandatory test during type approval and later also for in-service conformity. This paper compares results from mobile systems for measuring exhaust gas emissions (PEMS) with a stationary laboratory (BOSMAL’s Exhaust Emissions Testing Laboratory). The tests were carried out using a passenger car equipped with a spark ignition engine, which was tested on chassis dynamometer over the WLTC cycle. The results showed that the differences between PEMS analysers and stationary analysers range from a few percent to a dozen or so percent, depending on the component and the measurement method.","PeriodicalId":34258,"journal":{"name":"Combustion Engines","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135092916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcin Zacharewicz, Artur Bogdanowicz, Ryszard Zadrąg, Paweł Socik, Paweł Wirkowski, Jakub Hołownia
{"title":"Evaluation of the impact of the thermal state of a diesel engine on its efficiency","authors":"Marcin Zacharewicz, Artur Bogdanowicz, Ryszard Zadrąg, Paweł Socik, Paweł Wirkowski, Jakub Hołownia","doi":"10.19206/ce-170793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19206/ce-170793","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the results of model and empirical research on the influence of the thermal state of a diesel engine (oil temperature) on its indicated (thermal) efficiency. The paper contains a test plan including a description of the test object, test equipment and measurement points on a real object. In the following part, the results of tests carried out on a real object (laboratory single-cylinder engine) and the results of model tests obtained on the original engine model are presented. The results are presented both in tabular and graphical form. The obtained test results allowed to determine the relative value of the influence of the engine's thermal state on its efficiency for various operating conditions (load and rotational speed).","PeriodicalId":34258,"journal":{"name":"Combustion Engines","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136153402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Artur Krzemiński, Artur Jaworski, Hubert Kuszewski, Paweł Woś
{"title":"A comparative study on selected physical properties of diesel–ethanol–dodecanol blends","authors":"Artur Krzemiński, Artur Jaworski, Hubert Kuszewski, Paweł Woś","doi":"10.19206/ce-170267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19206/ce-170267","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents findings of the comparative analyses of the selected physicochemical parameters of diesel fuel and diesel-ethanol blends with addition of dodecanol, used in order to stabilise the blend Diesel fuel and the blends were tested for density, flash point and cold filter plugging point. The physicochemical propertis were assessed in seven samples with different proportional volume of ethanol contained in diesel fuel. Homogeneous blends were produced by adding 5% dodecanol to blends containining between 5% and 30% ethanol. The study was conducted to assess the selected physicochemical properties of diesel-ethanol blends with addition of dodecanol and to compare the obtained results with requirement of EN590:2022-08","PeriodicalId":34258,"journal":{"name":"Combustion Engines","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136308885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tadashige Kawakami, Jinru Liu, Meiling Jin, Kuniyoshi Eto
{"title":"Effect of DMC blend ratio on emission characteristics for diesel engine generator fueled with DMC/diesel blended fuel","authors":"Tadashige Kawakami, Jinru Liu, Meiling Jin, Kuniyoshi Eto","doi":"10.19206/ce-168386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19206/ce-168386","url":null,"abstract":"Energy shortage and environmental problems are two dominant subjects. The diesel engine is well-known for its high thermal efficiency but severe emission problems. For the urgent fossil fuel resources, the substantial surrogate fuel, dimethyl carbonate (DMC) is attracting attention for its high oxygen content. Its application in diesel engines has won increasing focus. However, it is difficult to fuel diesel engines directly with DMC due to its low cetane number and high latent vaporization heat. In this study, the DMC/diesel blend with 5%, 10%, 15% DMC by volume are prepared to investigate the emission characteristics. Since the combustion process is strongly influenced by the addition of low boiling point DMC boosts the atomization and liquid fuel mixture, the emissions of hydrocarbons and particulate matter are significantly reduced by the DMC addiction especially on the high-load conditions. Also, the nitrogen oxide emission has slight reduction on the high-load conditions. The scope for balancing NOx and PM emissions exists.","PeriodicalId":34258,"journal":{"name":"Combustion Engines","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135308347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combustion stability for early and late direct hydrogen injection in a dual fuel diesel engine","authors":"Ksenia Siadkowska, Grzegorz Barański","doi":"10.19206/ce-171390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19206/ce-171390","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an analysis of the experimental results of direct hydrogen injection in a dual-fuel diesel engine. The test object is a four-cylinder, four-stroke ADCR engine. An analysis of the following parameters was carried out: indicated mean effective pressure, peak pressure, angle of maximum pressure and released heat. Statistical analysis of the obtained results was carried out for each cylinder separately for four different hydrogen doses. Both early and late direct hydrogen injection were analyzed. The significance of the differences for each of the analyzed parameters and type of injection was determined. The stability of the combustion process was evaluated using the coefficient of variation CoV(IMEP).","PeriodicalId":34258,"journal":{"name":"Combustion Engines","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135308352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CFD simulation of a vortex-controlled diffuser for a jet engine burner","authors":"Emeka Gaius Chijioke, Andrzej Teodorczyk","doi":"10.19206/ce-171522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19206/ce-171522","url":null,"abstract":"A computational flow analysis of an ideal vortex-controlled diffuser (VCD) was carried out. The simulation model used is the compressible Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations(RANS), with the application of the RNG based k-ε turbulence model. The effects of important parameters like static pressure recovery, bleed fraction, position of bleed slot, have been studied and comparisons were made with respect to VCD without the bleed configuration and the following features were revealed: radial profiles of velocity at the inlet, mid-planes and exit planes, including diffuser effectiveness (i.e. static pressure recovery), diffuser efficiency, reattachment length and diffuser total pressure loss. Results obtained by applying the RNG turbulence model show an instantaneous improvement in the diffuser efficiency that happens at reasonably minimal suction rates. From the calculations, it has been verified and shown in the analysis that the effect of the bleed positioning offers advantages in relation to where it is located.","PeriodicalId":34258,"journal":{"name":"Combustion Engines","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135982603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of exhaust manifold modification on engine power","authors":"Bartosz Bober, M. Andrych-Zalewska, Piotr Boguś","doi":"10.19206/ce-171389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19206/ce-171389","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the subject of the impact of an exhaust system on the power of the internal combustion engine. In particular the article shows the possibility of increasing a power of the gasoline drive unit, interfering only with an exhaust system. The purpose of the tests carried out is to compare the results of measurements from the chassis dynamometer before and after the modification, and additionally to perform simulations for the key parts of the system in terms of shaping the power and torque curves. The analysis includes a simulation model of the exhaust gas flow through the serial manifold and also the sport manifold, especially the pressure distribution and the course of the velocity vectors at the characteristic points of the element. Before obtaining the final results of power measurements on the sport units, the roughness of the steel from which the collectors were made was also measured. The final stage is the measurement of power on the new exhaust system. The obtained results of power measurements and simulations were presented in the form of a summary, which focused on the impact of individual fluid mechanics phenomena on the formation of power and torque curves and detailing the advantage of the new exhaust system in comparison with factory system in terms of increasing the performance of the tested vehicle.","PeriodicalId":34258,"journal":{"name":"Combustion Engines","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89840530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Matla, Andrzej Kaźmierczak, P. Haller, Marcin Trocki
{"title":"Hydrogen as a fuel for spark ignition combustion engines – state of knowledge and concept","authors":"J. Matla, Andrzej Kaźmierczak, P. Haller, Marcin Trocki","doi":"10.19206/ce-171541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19206/ce-171541","url":null,"abstract":"Accelerating process of the transport and energy sectors increases the interest in fuels derived from renewable sources. The predicted three-fold increase in hydrogen production by 2050, driven by its falling production costs, justifies the direction of research aimed at its popularisation as a fuel for internal combustion engines (H2ICE). Presented article provides an overview of the state of knowledge on hydrogen combustion systems, which are currently the most attractive development path, mainly due to the well-developed production technology and relatively low recycling cost compared with fuel cells. The paper contains a comprehensive analysis of currently available solutions covering issues related to the production, storage, and transmission of hydrogen, with particular emphasis on the Polish market, which is one of the largest in Europe in terms of its production. The authors also propose their own concept of a hydrogen combustion system for application in an internal combustion engine. The presented solution is based on the idea of prechamber introduction in order to improve combustion process parameters and hence overall engine efficiency.","PeriodicalId":34258,"journal":{"name":"Combustion Engines","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72617546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Lasota, Aleksandra Zabielska, Marianna Jacyna, Jolanta Żak
{"title":"Research and analysis of the operation of vehicles with various propulsion systems, including costs and CO2 emissions","authors":"M. Lasota, Aleksandra Zabielska, Marianna Jacyna, Jolanta Żak","doi":"10.19206/ce-169845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19206/ce-169845","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes and evaluates costs, transport time and CO2 emissions by selected vans. The research was carried out on the example of three models of Iveco Daily vehicles powered by: diesel oil, electricity and compressed natural gas (CNG). The result of the research presented in the article is the determination of the operating costs of vehicles powered by various energy sources and the level of CO2 emissions. The comparative analysis was carried out on real data for the established transport task. Vehicles with engines powered by compressed natural gas are characterized by the highest savings in terms of transport costs. As the authors pointed out, this may be due to the fact that this type of engines, despite the low interest of buyers at the moment, may gain much more popularity in the future. On the other hand, in relation to vehicles with electric motors, the cost of transport is the highest, which means that this type of technology is ineffective in relation to long-distance transport.","PeriodicalId":34258,"journal":{"name":"Combustion Engines","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74335953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}