Establishment of Combustion Model for Isooctane HCCI Marine Diesel Engine and Research on the Combustion Characteristic

The College of Marine Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, 116026, Dalian, China

^a Corresponding author: libiaoyx@126.com

Abstract

The homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion mode applied in marine diesel engine is expected to be one of alternative technologies to decrease nitrogen oxide (NO_X) emission and improve energy utilization rate. Applying the chemical-looping combustion (CLC) mechanism inside the cylinder, a numerical study on the HCCI combustion process is performed taking a marine diesel engine as application object. The characteristic feature of combustion process is displayed. On this basis, the formation and emission of NO_X are analyzed and discussed. The results indicate that the HCCI combustion mode always exhibit two combustion releasing heats: low-temperature reaction and high-temperature reaction. The combustion phase is divided into low-temperature reaction zone, high-temperature reaction zone and negative temperature coefficient (NTC) zone. The operating conditions of the high compression ratio, high intake air temperature, low inlet pressure and small excess air coefficient would cause the high in-cylinder pressure which often leads engine detonation. The low compression ratio, low intake air temperature and big excess air coefficient would cause the low combustor temperature which is conducive to reduce NO_X emissions. These technological means and operating conditions are expected to meet the NO_X emissions limits in MARPOL73/78 Convention-Annex VI Amendment.