Technical Paper
Combustion Chamber Shape and Pressurized Injection in High-Speed Direct-Injection Diesel Engines
1990-02-01
900440
This paper deals with the effect of combustion chamber shape and the role of pressurized injection in high-speed direct-injection diesel engines. First, the previously reported good performance and emission characteristics of the reentrant chamber were confirmed in a single-cylinder engine test. To obtain a better insight into this excellence, a high-speed gas-sampling method was applied to determine the local fuel-air equivalence ratios and mass fractions of substances having higher boiling points during combustion. The results showed that even at a retarded injection the reentrant chamber suppressed the outflow of gas into the clearance space from containing a lot of higher-boiling-point substances, like raw fuel and carbonaceous matter, thereby assuring a less heterogeneous state than the ordinary deep-bowl chamber. This is attributed partly to the suppressed outflow of unburnt gas from the cavity and partly to the enhanced mixing near the entrance.