HEAT RELEASE:
 Rate at which the chemical energy of the
fuel is released by the combustion process.
 It can be calculated from cylinder pressure
versus crank angle data, as the energy
release required to create the measured
pressure, using the known techniques.
Spray structure:
The fuel is introduced into the
combustion chamber thro one or more
nozzles or orifices with large pressure
difference between fuel supply line and
cylinder.
 Std diesel injectors operate with fuel
injection pressures between 200 and
1700 atm

Heat release rate in diesel
engine systems

The engine taken into study had central
fuel injection through a four-hole nozzle
into a disc-shaped bowl-in-position
combustion chamber.

There is a delay of 9o between the start
of injection and start of combustions.
Combustion stages:
The
combustions
process
proceeds
in
three
distinguishable stages.
 1st stage -Rate of burning is generally very high and lasts
only for few crank angle degrees. It corresponds to the
period of rapid cylinder pressure rise.


2nd
stage-Corresponds to a period of gradually
decreasing heat-release rate. This is the main heatrelease period and lasts about 40o. Normally about 80%
of the total fuel energy is released in the first two stages.

3rd Stage corresponds to the “tail” of the heat-release
diagram in which a small but distinguishable rate of heat
release persists throughout much of the expansion stroke.
The heat release during this period usually amounts to
about 20% of the total fuel energy.
Observations from energy release:

The total burning period is much longer
than the injection period.

The magnitude of the initial peak of the
burning-rate diagram depends on the
ignition delay period, being higher for
longer delays.
Rate of heat release vs crank angle
The period between the start of fuel
injection into the combustion chamber
and the start of combustion is the
ignition delay.
 The premixed or rapid combustion
phase is the phase where the
combustion of the fuel which has mixed
with air to within the flammability limits
during the ignition delay period occurs
rapidly in a few crank angle degree.


Once the fuel and the air which premixed
during the ignition delay have been
consumed, the burning rate is controlled by
the rate at which mixture becomes available
for burning.

The late combustion is where the heat
release continues at a lower rate well into the
expansion stroke

At time of injection the air in the cylinder has
a pressure of 50 to 100 atm, and temperature
about 1000 K

The initial jet velocity is greater than 100 m/s.

The outer surface of the jet breaks up into
drops of order 10µm.

The major region of the spray is a substantial
vapor cloud around this narrow core which
contains liquid fuel.
Spray and flame structure: