Various Injection Conditions and Fuel Control of an LPG Liquid Injection Engine

다양한 분사조건과 LPG 액상분사엔진의 연료량 제어

  • Sim Hansub (Department of Automotive Engineering, Jinju National University)
  • 심한섭 (진주산업대학교 자동차공학과)
  • Published : 2005.01.01

Abstract

Fuel injection rate of an injector is affected by various injection conditions such as injection duration, fuel temperature, injection pressure, and voltage in LPG liquid injection systems for either a port-fuel-injection(PFI) or a direct injection(DI) in a cylinder. Even fuel injection conditions are changed, the air-fuel ratio should be accurately controlled to educe exhaust emissions. In this study, correction factor for the fuel injection rate of an injector is derived from the density ratio and the pressure difference ratio. A voltage correction factor is researched from injection test results on an LPG liquid injection engine. A compensation method of the fuel injection rate is proposed for a fuel injection control system. The experimental results for the LPG liquid injection system in a SI-engine show that this system works well on experimental range of engine speed and load conditions. And the fuel injection rate is accurately controlled by the proposed compensation method.

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