Control of Knock in SI Engines在发动机爆震分析与控制课件.ppt

Analysis Control of Knock in SI Engines P M V Subbarao Professor Mechanical Engineering Department Measures to Avoid Uncontrollable Combustion…. The Knock in SI Engines Knock in gasoline engines is one of the major challenges to design an engine with higher thermal efficiencies. Without knock, an engine can be designed to have a higher compression ratio, giving higher efficiency and power output. The demand to design engines closer to the allowable knock limit with consequential reductions in safety limits is highly appreciated. The phenomenon is characterized by excessively high pressure amplitudes with stochastic occurrence. The phenomenon occurs independent of the mixture formation process in both natural aspirated and turbo charged engines. This phenomenon is a fundamental issue of modern SI engine design methods. The Reason for the Birth of Knock The end-gas autoignites after a certain induction time which is dictated by the chemical kinetics of the fuel-air mixture. If the flame burns all the fresh gas before auto-ignition in the end-gas can occur then knock is avoided. Therefore knock is a potential problem when the burn time is long. A Geometrical Problem turned into A Chemistry …….. Compression Quality Brake Thermal Efficiency Ratio Requirement 5:1 72 - 6:1 81 25 % 7:1 87 28 % 8:1 92 30 % 9:1 96 32 % 10:1 100 33 % 11:1 104 34 % 12:1 108 35 % Fuel : The Resource is the Culprit : Knock Scale To provide a standard measure of a fuel’s ability to resist knock, a scale has been devised by which fuels are assigned an octane number ON. The octane number determines whether or not