Performance Analysis of a Dual Cycle Engine with Considerations of Pressure Ratio and Cut-Off Ratio

• Authors: R. Ebrahimi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The dual cycle is a better approximation to the modern high speed compression ignition engine than either the Diesel cycle or the Otto cycle. Therefore, this study is aimed at investigating the effects of pressure and cut-off ratios on the dual cycle performance with considerations of heat transfer loss, variable specific heat ratio and friction irreversible losses. By using finite-time thermodynamics theory, the relations between the power output and the compression ratio, between the thermal efficiency and the compression ratio, as well as the optimal relation between power output and the efficiency of the cycle are obtained. The results show that if compression ratio is smaller than certain value, the increase of pressure ratio and the decrease of cut-off ratio make the power output bigger. While if compression ratio exceeds certain value, the power output first increases and then starts to decline as pressure ratio and cut-off ratio are increased. With further increase in compression ratio, the power output decreases with increasing pressure ratio and decreasing cut-off ratio. The effects of pressure and cut-off ratios on the variation of the thermal efficiency with compression ratio are similar to those for the power output. The results obtained in this work can provide significant guidance for the performance evaluation and improvement of modern high speed compression ignition engines.

Keywords

EN

05.70.Ln; 82.60.Fa; 88.05.-b

Discipline

• 82.60.Fa: Heat capacities and heats of phase transitions
• 05.70.Ln: Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics(see also 82.40.Bj Oscillations, chaos, and bifurcations in physical chemistry and chemical physics)
• 88.05.-b: Energy analysis

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 118
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 534-539

Dates

published

2010-10

received

2010-03-14

Contributors

author

R. Ebrahimi

• Department of Agriculture Machine Mechanics, Shahrekord University, P.O. Box 115, Shahrekord, Iran

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.118.534