Experimental Investigation of Intake Manifold Design Effect on Diesel Engine Performance

Abstract

Intake port geometry is the most significant parameter for air supply of engines into combustion space. Especially because only air is supplied into combustion spaces of diesel engines and the fuel is sprayed over the air, intake port geometry should form a specific horizontal turbulence ratio in formation of fuel-air mixture. In this study, the impact of cylinder heads of intake port of a single cylinder compression ignition engine produced with 3 different geometries on performance and emissions of the engine was analysed experimentally. Additionally, the impact of intake port geometry produced with old and new moulds on 3 different geometries was researched. As a result of the study; power, torque, specific fuel consumption, exhaust gas temperatures, intake air flow and soot emission were measured. It was found out that the different intake port designs had impact on performance parameters, specific fuel consumption and soot emission following the study. Moreover, it was shown that the change of intake port didn’t have any impact on the flow of the air intake in low speed. It was observed that the cylinder heads produced with old and new mould cores had a significant impact. It is predicted that the main reason for the poor performance of the port geometry, which is called Y-type and creates a wider auger around the intake valve, may be due to the low turbulence intensity it creates in the cylinder. X and Z type ports gave better results by about 15% in power and torque values. Z type intake port gave the best performance in terms of exhaust gas temperature and soot emission.

Keywords

• Engine performance
• Intake port
• Single cylinder diesel engine
• Soot emission

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