Lean and Rich Premixed Compression Ignition Combustion in a Light-Duty Diesel Engine Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • Lean Premixed Compression Ignition (PCI) low-temperature combustion promises to simultaneously reduce NOx and PM emissions, while suffering a moderate penalty in fuel consumption. Similarly, opportunities exist to develop rich PCI combustion strategies which can provide the necessary exhaust constituents for aggressive regeneration of a Lean NOx Trap (LNT). The current work highlights the development of lean and rich PCI combustion strategies. It is shown that the lean PCI combustion strategy successfully operates with low NOx and PM, at the expense of a 5% increase in fuel consumption over conventional diesel operation. The rich PCI combustion strategy similarly operates with low NOx and PM, and produces enough CO (up to 5% by volume in exhaust) for aggressive regeneration of an LNT. Copyright 2005 SAE International.

name of conference

  • SAE Technical Paper Series

published proceedings

  • SAE Technical Papers

author list (cited authors)

  • Jacobs, T. J., Bohac, S. V., Assanis, D. N., & Szymkowicz, P. G.

citation count

  • 89

complete list of authors

  • Jacobs, Timothy J||Bohac, Stanislav V||Assanis, Dennis N||Szymkowicz, Patrick G

publication date

  • December 2005