Improving Fuel Economy of Spark Ignition Engines Applying the Combined Method of Power Regulation

Yurii Gutarevych; Vasyl Mateichyk; Jonas Matijošius; Alfredas Rimkus; Igor Gritsuk; Oleksander Syrota; Yevheniy Shuba

doi:10.3390/en13051076

Energies (Mar 2020)

Improving Fuel Economy of Spark Ignition Engines Applying the Combined Method of Power Regulation

Yurii Gutarevych,
Vasyl Mateichyk,
Jonas Matijošius,
Alfredas Rimkus,
Igor Gritsuk,
Oleksander Syrota,
Yevheniy Shuba

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Yurii Gutarevych: Department of Engines and Thermal Engineering, Faculty of Faculty of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, National Transport University, Mykhaila Omelianovycha-Pavlenka Str. 1, 01010 Kyiv, Ukraine
Vasyl Mateichyk: Department of Ecology and Safety of Vital Functions, Faculty of Faculty of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, National Transport University, Mykhaila Omelianovycha-Pavlenka Str. 1, 01010 Kyiv, Ukraine
Jonas Matijošius: Institute of Mechanical Science, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, J. Basanavičiaus Str. 28, LT-03224 Vilnius, Lithuania
Alfredas Rimkus: Department of Automobile Engineering, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, J. Basanavičiaus Str. 28, LT-03224 Vilnius, Lithuania
Igor Gritsuk: Department of Technical Exploitation and Service of Cars, Kharkiv National Automobile and Highway University (KhNAHU), Yaroslava Mudrogo St, 25, 61000 Kharkiv, Ukraine
Oleksander Syrota: Department of Engines and Thermal Engineering, Faculty of Faculty of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, National Transport University, Mykhaila Omelianovycha-Pavlenka Str. 1, 01010 Kyiv, Ukraine
Yevheniy Shuba: Department of Engines and Thermal Engineering, Faculty of Faculty of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, National Transport University, Mykhaila Omelianovycha-Pavlenka Str. 1, 01010 Kyiv, Ukraine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en13051076
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 5
p. 1076

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One of the disadvantages of spark ignition engines, whose power is regulated by throttling, is the increased fuel consumption at low loads and when the engine is idle. The combined method of engine power regulation by switching off the cylinder group and throttling working cylinders is one of the effective ways to improve fuel economy in the above-mentioned modes. This article presents the research results of the combined method of engine power regulation which can be realized by minor structural changes in operating conditions. The method implies the following: at low loads and at idle speed of the engine. Fuel supply to the group of cylinders is switched off with the simultaneous increase of the cyclic fuel supply in the working cylinders. The adequacy of the calculated results has been checked by the indication of operating processes in switched off and working cylinders. The research results of a six-cylinder spark ignition engine with the distributed gasoline injection using the combined power regulation system have been shown. The angles of opening the throttle which provides a non-shock transition from the operation with all cylinders to the operation with the cylinder group switched off have been determined.

Published in Energies

ISSN: 1996-1073 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies

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