Author(s)

Daniel Roméo Kamta Legue^1*, Marcel Obounou¹, Ekobena Fouda Henri¹, Zacharie Merlin Ayissi², Mahamat Hassane Babikir¹, Ivan Ehawe¹

¹Department of Physics, Energy Laboratory, Electrical and Electronic Systems, University of Yaounde 1, Yaounde, Cameroon.
²Faculty of Industrial Engineering, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon.

This article analyses numerically the simultaneous influence of the compression rate, fuel nature and the advanced injection of fuel on maximum cylinder pressure during the combustion phrase with the help of the Python Spyder calculation code. Indeed, several authors have shown that the combustion of biofuels which make it possible to compensate for fossil and exhaustible resources, presents a cylinder pressure higher by about 3.5% compared to that of conventional diesel D100. This increase in pressure can be reduced by the means of controlling parameters making it possible to preserve the life of the engine and also reduce nitrogen oxides (NO_x) and particular matter (PM). This article has two objectives which are: putting in place a numerical tool for the evaluation and simulation of thermal engines and the influence of control parameters on cylinder pressure. The single zone 0D combustion model which considers only the physical phenomena and considers the mixed fuel as a perfect gas is used. The fuel used is the Neem biofuel produced by Doctor Merlin Ayissi of the University of Douala and the D100 diesel fuel. The results are obtained from three fuel injection angles of 20°, 13° and 10° before the TDC (Top Dead Centre) and three values of the engine compression rates of 15, 20 and 25. The delay in combustion is characteristic of the fuel used as illustrated by the cetane number. The results show that the cylinder pressure increases with increasing compression rate and a very high advanced injection. It also shows that the pressure is high when diesel D100 is used instead of D100 biodiesel.

Biofuel Compression Rate, Advanced Injection, Python

Legue, D. , Obounou, M. , Henri, E. , Ayissi, Z. , Babikir, M. and Ehawe, I. (2019) Numerical Analysis of the Compression Ratio’s Influence, the Nature of the Fuel and the Injection Feed on the Cylinder Pressure. Energy and Power Engineering, 11, 249-258. doi: 10.4236/epe.2019.116016.