Flame–Wall Interaction Effects on Diesel Post-injection Combustion and Soot Formation Processes

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of walls on soot processes of a post-injection strategy at different dwell times. The experiments were performed in an optically accessible constant-volume combustion chamber simulating compression ignition engine conditions with moderate exhaust gas recirculation. The experiments with various injection strategies were performed under ambient conditions with gas density, pressure, and temperature of 20.8 kg/m3, 6 MPa, and 1000 K, respectively, and 15 vol % O2 concentration. The main and post injections had a quantity ratio of 8:2 (main/post) totaling 10 mg, and a flat wall was placed 35 mm axially from the injector. The dwell time between the main and post injections was also varied to induce different levels of interaction between the injections. High-speed flame natural luminosity imaging and two-color pyrometry techniques were applied to observe flame characteristics and to obtain soot temperature and KL factor information, respectively. By comparing the wall jet and free jet cases with no direct jet interaction, it was found that the wall affected the post jet flame structure similarly to a single jet or the main jet. However, the post jet with a greater extent of interaction with the main jet induced by shorter dwell time can achieve better mixing for the wall jet case. Increased interaction between the main and post jets also appeared to induce a soot oxidation phase, which was otherwise not observed when the injections were more temporally separated.

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