One-dimensional numerical investigation on multi-cylinder gasoline engine fueled by micro-emulsions,CNG, and hydrogen in dual fuel mode

This research work is the novel state-of-the-art technology performed on multi-cylinder SI engine fueled compressed natural gas, emulsified fuel, and hydrogen as dual fuel. This work predicts the overall features of performance, combustion, and exhaust emissions of individual fuels based on AVL Boost simulation technology. Three types of alternative fuels have been compared and analyzed. The results show that hydrogen produces 20% more brake power than CNG and 25% more power than micro-emulsion fuel at 1500 r/min, which further increases the brake power of hydrogen, CNG, and micro-emulsions in the range of 25%, 20%, and 15% at higher engine speeds of 2500–4000 r/min, respectively. In addition, the brake-specific fuel consumption is the lowest for 100% hydrogen, followed by CNG 100% and then micro-emulsions at 1500 r/min. At 2500–5000 r/min, there is a significant drop in brake-specific fuel consumption due to a lean mixture at higher engine speeds. The CO, HC, and NO_x emissions significantly improve for hydrogen, CNG, and micro-emulsion fuel. Hydrogen fuel shows zero CO and HC emissions and is the main objective of this research to produce 0% carbon-based emissions with a slight increase in NO_x emissions, and CNG shows 30% lower CO emissions than micro-emulsions and 21.5% less hydrocarbon emissions than micro-emulsion fuel at stoichiometric air/fuel ratio.     

Multi-objective optimization of aircraft design for emission and cost reductions

Pollutant gases emitted from the civil jet are doing more and more harm to the environ- ment with the rapid development of the global commercial aviation transport. Low environmental impact has become a new requirement for aircraft design. In this paper, estimation method for emis- sion in aircraft conceptual design stage is improved based on the International Civil Aviation Orga- nization （ICAO） aircraft engine emissions databank and the polynomial curve fitting methods. The greenhouse gas emission （CO2 equivalent） per seat per kilometer is proposed to measure the emis- sions. An approximate sensitive analysis and a multi-objective optimization of aircraft design for tradeoff between greenhouse effect and direct operating cost （DOC） are performed with five geom- etry variables of wing configuration and two flight operational parameters. The results indicate that reducing the cruise altitude and Mach number may result in a decrease of the greenhouse effect but an increase of DOC. And the two flight operational parameters have more effects on the emissions than the wing configuration. The Pareto-optimal front shows that a decrease of 29.8% in DOC is attained at the expense of an increase of 10.8% in greenhouse gases.     

吸热型碳氢燃料热沉的测定

介绍了一套自制的热导式高温量热系统,热量常数可用电标定法测定。用此仪器可测定各种吸热型碳氢燃料在各种条件下的热沉,用于吸热型碳氢燃料的筛选,为吸热型碳氢燃料的研究提供可靠的热化学数据。用这套装置测定了两种吸热型碳氢燃料在７００°Ｃ的热沉,与文献值接近。     

Utilisation of turboelectric distribution propulsion in commercial aviation: A review on NASA’s TeDP concept

Emissions produced by the aviation industry are currently a severe environmental threat; therefore, aviation agencies and governments have set emission targets and formulated plans to restrict emissions within the next decade. Hybrid aircraft technology is being considered to meet these targets. The importance of these technologies lies in their advancements in terms of aircraft life cycles and environmental benignity. Owing to these advancements, hybrid electric systems with more than one power source have become promising for the aviation industry, considering that the growth of air traffic is projected to double in the next decade. Hybrid technologies have given future hybrid fans and motor-fan engines potential as alternative power generators. Herein, Turboelectric Distributed Propulsion (TeDP) is discussed in terms of power distribution and power sources. The fundamentals of turbofan and turboshaft engines are presented along with their electricity-generation mechanism. TeDP is discussed from a design viewpoint, with a detailed discussion of different types of hybrid electric and turboelectric systems. Examples of proposed TeDP aircraft models and numerical modelling tools used to simulate the performance of TeDP models are reviewed. Finally, innovative turboelectric systems in which electric power savers and mechanical gear changers have been discarded for weight optimisation are presented along with other prospective models, engines, approaches, and architectures. The findings of this review indicate the knowledge gaps in the field of numerical modelling for NASA’s TeDP and its capability to increase the efficiency by up to 24% with a 50% reduction in emissions relative to those of conventional gas turbines.     

Commercial technology & avionics architecture

As commercial technology has become more embedded in the military community, there have been attendant effects caused by the rapid progress in technology and by obsolescence. Industry has generated many solutions to mitigate these effects, but their limitations are emerging with time. This is a discussion of higher-level approaches to obsolescence solutions and technology insertion problems that have not hitherto been addressed.     

弱旋流喷嘴的污染排放和燃烧稳定性分析

基于弱旋流喷嘴(LSI)的弱旋流燃烧技术具有极低的NOx污染排放能力.分析了弱旋流燃烧的稳定燃烧和降低污染排放的原理,发现其特殊的流动形式及其与湍流火焰传播的匹配是决定其燃烧稳定性和污染排放的主要因素.而弱旋流喷嘴的旋流叶片角度、直径比和流量比等关键参数会影响LSI的下游流动特征,进而影响其燃烧性能.燃料对LSI燃烧稳定性和污染排放的影响主要是通过火焰传播速度和绝热火焰温度发挥作用.为了将液体燃料应用于LSI,目前主要采用了预混预蒸发的方式,试验结果表明:其NOx排放可比采用常规强旋流喷嘴的燃烧室降低10%~60%,但存在自燃和回火的风险.而LSI喷雾燃烧的方式,则需要针对弱旋流液雾燃烧开展更深入的基础研究.只有解决了液体燃料的LSI应用问题,才能发展出不同于传统强旋流燃烧的新一代航空发动机超低排放燃烧室.      

New cycle and emission studies — the CYPRESS project

The overall objective of the EC project CYPRESS is to make informed predictions of the probable changes in aero gas turbine design in the near term (7–10 years) and the longer term (17–20 years) and to predict the pollutant emissions from these engines. Engine classes representative of the range of products of all European manufacturers will be included. CYPRESS will particularly investigate the effects of engine design and cycle on the relationships between CO₂ and NO_X. Because of the prospect that emissions should be regulated at all altitudes, CYPRESS will focus on predictions of cycle efficiencies and emissions throughout the full flight cycle.     

Energy sources for the world's post-petroleum era

Growth of industry and commerce during the last century have been accompanied by a significant increase in the use of natural gas and petroleum. Today's growing consumption of fuels indicates that, in the next SO years, the world's petroleum resources will be approaching exhaustion. For example, suppose that every family in China had two cars that are driven everyday as far as American family cars are driven today. Then, China would need 80 million barrels of petroleum each day. However, the world's current production of petroleum is only 74 million barrels per day. China's approach to their air-pollution and energy problems is constructing new nuclear power plants plus the 18.2 gigawatt Three Gorges hydro-power-plant. The increasing carbon dioxide content in our atmosphere, and a rising global temperature, accompany the world's growing fuel consumption. Archeological evidence relates the growth and decline of the ice ages to air temperature. Many popular techniques for reducing carbon-dioxide emissions have defects. For example, replacing nuclear power plants with wind-power plants is proposed in Germany. During no-wind conditions, hydropower would be imported from Switzerland. At night, the Swiss would pump, with nuclear power from France, water from the lake back up into the high-elevation storage reservoirs. These and other power-generation technologies are evaluated in this report.     

Using built-in-test to reduce TPS run times and improve TPSreliability

This paper addresses using information derived from Built-in-Test (BIT) to fault diagnose Units Under Test (UUTs), wherever possible. This philosophic approach to diagnostic testing is not new. It has been studied over the past 20 years under the visor of “Integrated Diagnostics”, but it has yet to be truly implemented in a “real life” military diagnostic test environment. The mindset of Test Program Set design engineering, along with customer and contractor management alike, remains “complete diagnostic testing based upon single catastrophic component failure modes”. If we are to generate cost efficient Test Program Sets (TPSs) under reduced military budget constraints, this will have to change! The test engineer must be encouraged to use methodologies to speed up development time and decrease TPS run times. Using present technology, this is possible now, and as the technology matures, will become a truly viable approach in the future. For the purpose of this paper, the author relies heavily on his extensive US Navy Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) and Test Program Set (TPS) experience, as well as on previous studies performed on using BIT to fault diagnose Unit Under Test failures on US Naval Air weapon systems     

正十七烷与正十八烷对航空煤油理化性能及液滴平均直径的影响

讨论了正十七烷与正十八烷(C₁₇,C₁₈)对燃料运动黏度、密度、表面张力理化性能的影响,探究了直链烷烃对SMD(Sauter mean diameter)的影响.将Key's混合规律、Tat混合规律和多项式拟合应用于密度公式的拟合,并将Key's混合规律与对数拟合应用于运动黏度公式的拟合,得出的理化性能拟合公式精度较高;通过测量纯煤油及C₁₇,C₁₈混合油雾化的SMD,实验发现随着直链烷烃的质量分数的增加,混合油的运动黏度增加,SMD也随之增加,雾化效果与纯航空煤油的相比较差,而C₁₈混合油的SMD要比C₁₇混合油要大,并且利用密度、运动黏度的拟合公式对SMD进行预测的偏差小于0.3%.      

民用航空发动机低排放燃烧室技术发展现状及水平

为了从科学和技术的角度展望民用航空发动机低排放燃烧室技术的发展方向,基于污染物生成机理及控制原理阐述了富油和贫油燃烧的污染排放控制方法,回顾了富油-焠熄-贫油燃烧（RQL）、贫油预混预蒸发燃烧（LPP）和贫油直接喷射燃烧（LDI）3种低污染燃烧技术的发展现状,并分析了新一代民用航空低排放燃烧室技术目前所达到的低污染排放水平。采用贫油燃烧技术的双环预混旋流器燃烧室（TAPS）已经应用于型号并取证,其NO_x排放比CAEP/6（Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection/6）标准低50.0%~65.8%,达到了超低排放水平,证明了贫油燃烧的发展潜力。要实现NO_x排放比CAEP/6低75.0%以上的超超低排放目标,需要利用燃烧数值模拟和光学诊断等先进工具,对燃烧室内喷雾、混合、流动、燃烧及它们之间的非定常相互作用开展更深入的研究。     

芳香烃种类及含量对航空发动机燃烧的排放影响

为了对不同芳香烃种类及含量在航空发动机上表现开展综合评定,对16种芳香烃的3种配比调和燃料开展发动机排放尾气碳烟浓度实验。根据实测颗粒物排放浓度值,对芳香烃的种类与含量增长对排放的影响进行比较;通过线性拟合计算芳香烃特性与颗粒物PM(particulate matters)排放的相关性;结合燃料的能量密度与排放两大重要因素,给出综合评定排名。分析结果表明:茚与萘系类产生的PM数浓度显著更高,而加氢处理后对排放有明显改善。芳香烃的密度和碳氢比对PM的影响最大,并随着芳烃浓度的增加影响越显著。对异丙苯与苯乙烯在综合评定中被列为最优两种芳烃,对萘系列加氢处理可同时优化比能与排放。该结果为通过控制燃料中芳烃种类来优化燃料提供了研究基础。      

Long Term Climate Records from Polar Ice

One of the great challenges in climate research is to investigate the principal mechanisms that control global climatic changes and an effective way to learn more about it, is the reconstruction of past climate changes. The most important sources of information about such changes and the associated composition of the atmosphere are the two large ice caps of Greenland and Antarctica. Analysis of ice cores is the most powerful means we have to determine how climate has changed over the last few climatic cycles, and to relate this to changes in atmospheric composition, in particular to concentrations of the principal greenhouse gases – CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide).Transitions from cold ice age climates to warmer interstadials have always been accompanied by an increase of the atmospheric concentration of the three principal greenhouse gases. This increase has been, at least for CO₂, vital for the ending of glacial epochs. A highly simplified course of events for the past four transitions would then be as follows: first, changing orbital parameters initiated the end of the glacial epoch; second, an increase in greenhouse gases then amplified the weak orbital signal; third, in the second half of the transition, warming was further amplified by decreasing albedo, caused by melting of the large ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere going parallel with a change of the ocean circulation.The isotopic records of Greenland ice cores show evidence for fast and drastic climatic changes during the last glacial epoch. Possible causes and mechanisms of such changes and their significance as global climatic events are discussed here. Ice core results also enable the reaction of the environment to past global changes to be investigated.It will also be discussed how reliable stable isotope records are as a local temperature proxy and how representative paleoclimatic results from Greenland and Antarctica are in relation to global climate.     

Comparison of autoignition characteristics of n-heptane, methylcyclohexane and toluene

The autoignition characteristics of three C7 hydrocarbon fuels,n-heptane,methylcyclohexane and toluene,were comparatively investigated.Ignitions were performed behind the reflected shock waves in a shock tube.The ignition delay times of these fuels were measured at the same igintion conditions with constant fuel mole fraction of 1.0%,equivalence ratio of 1.0,ignition pressure of 1.0×105 Pa(one more 2.0×105 Pa for n-heptane)and temperatures of 1 166-1 662 K.The correlation formula of ignition delay dependence of three fuels on igintion conditions was deduced separately.Results show that the ignition delay time of n-heptane is the shortest while that of toluene is the longest at the same ignition conditions.The ignition delay time of methylcyclohexane is most sensitive to the temperature while that of n-heptane is the least.The comparison of current ignition delay times with the predictions of available chemical kinetic reaction mechanisms has been presented to validate the reliability of mechanisms.The important chemical reactions during the ignition process have been obtained from the sensitivity analysis.     

生物柴油对双旋流燃烧室燃烧与排放性能的影响

为深入研究燃气轮机燃用生物柴油对其燃烧与排放性能的影响,将生物柴油与柴油按照不同比例进行混合,在双旋流燃烧室90°扇形试验件上进行降压模拟燃烧试验.结果表明:随油气比的增加,燃烧效率和NOx排放快速增加并趋于稳定,出口温度分布系数（OTDF）、径向分布系数（RTDF）、CO排放逐渐减小并趋于稳定;随生物柴油混合比例的增加,燃烧效率、燃烧室温升逐渐降低,OTDF和NOx排放先减小后增加,RTDF和CO排放逐渐增加.随油气比的增加,生物柴油对燃烧和排放的主要影响方面发生变化,影响程度逐渐减弱,不同油气比时存在不同的最佳生物柴油混合比例.      

超声速客机低音爆布局反设计技术研究

音爆已经成为限制民用飞机在陆地上空进行超声速飞行最关键的因素.降低超声速客机的音爆水平,使其能够在陆地上空超声速飞行,将会给超声速客机带来巨大的潜在市场.基于SGD(Seebass-George-Darden)方法,构建了相关的设计分析环境,对超声速客机低音爆布局的反设计技术作了研究分析,在此基础上首次提出了一种“梭式...     

Lithium micro-battery development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Recent successes in the effort to miniaturize spacecraft components using MEMS technology, integrated passive components, and low power electronics have driven the need for very low power, low profile, low mass micro-power sources for micro/nanospacecraft applications. Recent work at JPL has focused upon developing thin film/micro-batteries compatible with temperature sensitive substrates. A process to prepare crystalline LiCoO₂ films with RF sputtering and moderate (<700°C) annealing temperature has been developed. Thin film batteries with cathode films prepared with this process have specific capacities approaching the practical limit for LiCoO₂, with acceptable rate capabilities and discharge voltage profiles. Solid-state micro-scale batteries have also been fabricated with feature sizes on the order of 50 microns     

热防护设计分析技术发展中的新概念与新趋势

热防护材料/结构是实现临近空间飞行器高速飞行的一项关键技术,近年来一些新的设计与分析方法不断涌现。本文对这些新的设计与分析方法进行了论述,综合分析后可以看出:热防护材料设计开始从原子、分子尺度出发,根据使用需求设计材料,并发展主动防护与控制环境技术;热防护结构设计在原有防热/承载一体化设计基础上,向多元化以及多功能一体化方向发展,同时积极发展新机制热防护概念设计;热防护分析方法更加注重复杂真实服役状态下多尺度、多物理场及非确定性的精细化分析。这些新概念和新技术有望给热防护技术带来革命性的进步。     

八面钻超声振动钻削钛合金出口毛刺形成机理

钛合金在传统麻花钻常规钻孔后,会产生较大的孔出口毛刺,这将导致孔出口去毛刺困难且影响紧固件装配质量。本文引入一种八面钻新刃型刀具,并利用超声振动钻削技术,进行了八面钻超声振动钻削钛合金出口毛刺形成的基础理论和试验研究。理论分析了普通钻削和超声振动钻削的出口毛刺形成过程以及超声振动钻削的出口毛刺降低机理,同时试验验证了超声振动钻削的出口毛刺降低效果。结果表明:相比于钛合金普通钻削,超声振动钻削极大地提高了钻头刀具的切削能力,分别降低了钻削力16%~20%、切削温度18%~21%和出口毛刺高度82%~89%,有效降低了装配过程的去毛刺困难和生产成本。