Flow characteristics of gas injectors

Abstract

Abstract The operation of Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) with gaseous fuels is characterized by the specificity of the fuelling process. Nowadays the most common system is the one in which after lowering its pressure the gas fuel is delivered to the engine intake manifold by means of gas injectors. This leads to a difference in the laws of fuel supply relative to the original gasoline injection system that dispenses fuel in liquid phase. Theoretical research has been done and gas leakage has been found to be critical under engine normal operating conditions, that is, it depends on fuel pressure and not on the environment in which the fuel leaks (intake manifold). An experimental test stand was set-up and multiparametric characteristics of a common construction bottom feed gas injectors were determined experimentally under conditions very close to the real working ones.