Possibility of improvement of some parameters of dual fuel CI engine by pilot dose division

The paper present a test results of dual fuel engine run on natural gas and diesel oil injected as a pilot dose. Determination of possibilities of engine’s operational parameters improvement through division of the pilot dose was the main objective of the presented research. The first dose injected at ignition advance angle, the same as in case of operation on diesel oil only, has as its task to initiate process of combustion. The second dose, injected with changing delay when, as assumed, phase of combustion process is already in progress, has as its task to sustain combustion of gaseous mixture. Control of combustion process was attained through changes of injection delay angle of additional dose. Division of pilot dose effects in a considerable reduction of maximal heat release rate during combustion with simultaneous growth of average combustion rate of gas-air mixture. In result, it has been observed a growth of overall efficiency of the engine, reduction of NOx concentration in exhaust gases, and reduction of maximal combustion pressures. Simultaneously, emission of the CO and TCH was slightly worsened.