Chaochen Ma

The analysis of real-world emissions is necessary to reduce the emissions of vehicles during on-road driving. In this paper, the matrix of gasoline direct injection passenger cars is applied to analyze the real-world emissions. The results show that high acceleration and high speed conditions are major conditions for the particulate number emissions, and the particulate number emissions are positively correlated with torque and throttle opening. The catalyst temperature and saturation are important factors that affect nitrogen oxide emission. The nitrogen oxide emissions of low speed and low torque conditions cannot be ignored in real-world driving. The carbon dioxide emissions are positively correlated with acceleration, torque and throttle opening. Once the vehicles are in the acceleration condition, the carbon dioxide emissions increase rapidly. The vehicles with higher average emission factors are more susceptible to driving behaviors, and the differences in the emission factors are more obvious, leading to an increase in the difficulty of emission control.

The application of hydrogen fuel in ORP engines makes the engine power density much higher than that of a reciprocating engine. This paper investigated the impacts of combustion characteristics, energy loss, and NO_x emissions of a hydrogen-fuelled ORP engine by ignition timing over various equivalence ratios using a simulation approach based on FLUENT code without considering experiments. The simulations were conducted under the equivalence ratio of 0.5~0.9 and ignition timing of −20.8~8.3° CA before top dead centre (TDC). The engine was operated under 1000 RPM and wide-open throttle condition which was around the maximum engine torque. The results indicated that significant early ignition of the ORP engine restrained the flame development in combustion chambers due to the special relative positions of ignition systems to combustion chambers. In-cylinder pressure evolutions were insensitive to early ignition. The start of combustion was the earliest over the ignition timing of −17.3° CA for individual equivalence ratios; the correlations of the combustion durations and equivalence ratios were dependent on the ignition timing. Combustion durations were less sensitive to equivalence ratios in the ignition timing range of −14.2~−11.1° CA before TDC. The minimum and maximum heat release rates were 15 J·(°CA)⁻¹ and 22 J·(°CA)⁻¹ over the equivalence ratios of 0.5 and 0.9, respectively. Indicated thermal efficiency was higher than 41% for early ignition scenarios, and it was significantly affected by late ignition. Energy loss by cylinder walls and exhaust was in the range of 10~16% and 42~58% of the total fuel energy, respectively. The impacts of equivalence ratios on NO_x emission factors were affected by ignition timing.

A passive shock wave control method, using a grooved surface instead of the original smooth surface of a gas turbine nozzle vane to alter a single shock wave into a multiple shock wave structure, is investigated in this paper, so as to gain insight into the flow characteristics of a multiple shock wave system and its variations with various grooved surface geometry parameters. With the combination of numerical and experimental approaches, the shock wave structure and the flow behavior in a linear turbine nozzle channel with different grooved surface configurations were compared and analyzed in details. The numerical and experimental results indicate that the multiple shock wave structure induced by the grooved surface is beneficial for mitigating the intensity of the shock wave, reducing the potential excitation force of the shock wave and decreasing the shock wave loss as well. It was also found that the benefits are related to the geometry of the grooved surface, such as groove width, depth, and number. However, the presence of the grooved surface inevitably causes more viscous boundary layer loss and wake loss, which maybe a bottleneck for general engineering application of such a passive shock wave mitigation method.