The Influence of Piston Internal Combustion Engines Intake and Exhaust Systems Configuration on Local Heat Transfer

Abstract

The improvement of work processes of piston engines to boost the technical and economic parameters is the main objective in the field of power engineering. The improvement of the gas exchange processes (intake and exhaust processes) quality is one of the possible profiles to improve the efficiency and reliability of piston internal combustion engines. The study of the instantaneous local heat transfer at flow unsteadiness is one of the objectives of the experimental studies of the thermomechanical processes in the intake and exhaust systems of the engines. The influence of configuration of the intake and exhaust pipes on the heat transfer intensity is a relevant engineering problem. The local heat transfer intensity data serves as the basis to determine the basis for determination of heating of the air (at intake), cooling exhaust gas (at exhaust), calculation of thermal stresses in the nodes and details of intake and exhaust systems. The article presents the results of the experimental investigation of the instantaneous local heat transfer (taking into account the hydrodynamic nonstationarity) in the intake and exhaust pipes of different configurations for piston internal combustion engines. It is established that the cross profiling of the intake and exhaust pipes of piston engines leads to 5-20% decrease in the local heat transfer intensity depending on the crankshaft speed. © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.