Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2022, 24(2):B120-B134 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2022.2.B120-B134

Experimental Investigations of Injection and Combustion Parameters of a Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) Engine with a Multi-Injection Common Rail System

Waleed Niklawy1, Moatasem Shahin2, Mohamed I. Amin ORCID...1, Ali Elmaihy ORCID...1
1 Mechanical Power Engineering Department, Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt
2 Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Badr University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

This work experimentally investigates the most imperative parameters that control the injection and combustion processes in a multi-injection HCCI Diesel engine namely; fuel-line pressure, timing of multi-injection events and the resulting in-cylinder pressure. These parameters in addition to the heat release rates are evaluated at different engine loads and speeds over up to 42 successive cycles. The main inter-relations of these parameters are also discussed.

Keywords: HCCI, fuel line pressure, AHRR, injector activation signals, multi-injections CR system

Received: August 4, 2021; Accepted: November 16, 2021; Prepublished online: January 21, 2022; Published: April 1, 2022  Show citation

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Niklawy, W., Shahin, M., Amin, M.I., & Elmaihy, A. (2022). Experimental Investigations of Injection and Combustion Parameters of a Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) Engine with a Multi-Injection Common Rail System. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 24(2), B120-134. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2022.2.B120-B134
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