Sensor for injection rate measurements

Abstract

A vast majority of the medium and high speed Diesel engines are equipped with multi-hole injection nozzles nowadays. Inaccuracies in workmanship and changing hydraulic conditions in the nozzles result in differences in injection rates between individual injection nozzle holes. The new deformational measuring method described in the paper allows injection rate measurement in each injection nozzle hole. The differences in injection rates lead to uneven thermal loads of Diesel engine combustion chambers. All today known measuring method, such as Bosch and Zeuch give accurate results of the injection rate in diesel single-hole nozzles. With multihole nozzles they tellus nothing about possible differences in injection rates between individual holes of the nozzle. At deformational measuring method, the criterion of the injected fuel is expressed by the deformation of membrane occurring due to the collision of the pressure wave against the membrane. The pressure wave is generated by the injection of the fuel into the measuring space. For each hole of the nozzle the measuring device must have a measuring space of its own into which fuel is injected as well as its measuring membraneand its own fuel outlet. During measurements procedure the measuring space must be filled with fuel to maintain an overpressure of 5 kPa. Fuel escaping from the measuring device is conducted into the graduated cylinders for measuring the volumetric flow through each hole of the nozzle.The membrane deformation is assessed by strain gauges. They are glued to the membrane and forming the full Wheatstonećs bridge. We devoted special attention to the membrane shape and temperature compensation of the strain gauges.

Keywords

termodinamika;senzorji;dizelski motorji;šobe;vbrizgavanje goriva;meritve;thermodynamics;sensors;Diesel engines;nozzles;injection;measurements;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2006
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UM FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
UDC:	536.7:621.43.038
COBISS:	10794262
ISSN:	1424-8220
Parent publication:	Sensors
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Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary keywords:	termodinamika;senzorji;dizelski motorji;šobe;vbrizgavanje goriva;meritve;
URN:	URN:SI:UM:
Type (COBISS):	Scientific work
Pages:	str. 1367-1382
Volume:	ǂVol. ǂ6
Chronology:	2006
DOI:	10.3390/s6101367
ID:	10844051