The Influence of Cross-profiling of Inlet and Exhaust Pipes on the Gas Exchange Processes in Piston Engines

Abstract

It is known that more than 80% of global energy is produced by internal combustion engines. Therefore, the improvement of working cycles and modernization of systems and components of the piston and combined internal combustion engines with the aim of improving their technical and economic indicators is one of the urgent tasks in the global energy sector. Research studies in this area were carried out mainly by means of numerical simulations or experimentally under static conditions. Information about gas exchange processes in the unsteady gas dynamic conditions are quite limited and controversial. This work aims at obtaining of the additional clarifying information about the gas dynamics in the air-gas tract of the internal combustion engine and finding ways of improving the processes. The results of experimental studies of gas exchange processes in the intake and exhaust tracts piston engines were presented in the article. Experimental studies were conducted on full-scale models of a single-cylinder engine. The experimental dependencies of change of the instantaneous velocity and pressure of the gas flow in the gas paths from the crank angle were presented in the article. Improvement of gas exchange processes in the intake and exhaust pipes of internal combustion engines due to the transverse profiling of the channels was proposed in the paper. © 2016 The Authors.