Study on the combustion process and work capacity of a micro free-piston engine

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

With the main idea of exploring combustion conditions and the work capacity of the micro free-piston engine, the study concern isvisualization work including Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion in the micro-chamber. The initial freepistonvelocity was adjusted to achieve a wide range of compression ratio. The combustion characteristics, the piston motion and pressurevariations under different compression ratios were discussed. Results indicate that the critical combustion condition occurs when thecompression ratio rises to a certain degree. Two-stage combustion characteristics can be observed in micro HCCI combustion processeswith the fuel of the DME/oxygen mixture. The micro-chamber pressure increases with the increase of the compression ratio. The criticalpeak pressure of 5.4 MPa is obtained when the initial piston velocity reaches 15.0 m/s and the diameter and the length of the microchamberis 3 mm and 37 mm, respectively.

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