EP0528150B1 - Système et méthode pour alimenter un moteur diesel brûlant une mixture de petites particules et de combustible - Google Patents

Système et méthode pour alimenter un moteur diesel brûlant une mixture de petites particules et de combustible Download PDF

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EP0528150B1
EP0528150B1 EP92111211A EP92111211A EP0528150B1 EP 0528150 B1 EP0528150 B1 EP 0528150B1 EP 92111211 A EP92111211 A EP 92111211A EP 92111211 A EP92111211 A EP 92111211A EP 0528150 B1 EP0528150 B1 EP 0528150B1
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Hiroshi c/o Nagasaki Res. & Dev. Center Nakagawa
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M43/00—Fuel-injection apparatus operating simultaneously on two or more fuels, or on a liquid fuel and another liquid, e.g. the other liquid being an anti-knock additive
    • F02M43/02—Pumps peculiar thereto
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M45/00—Fuel-injection apparatus characterised by having a cyclic delivery of specific time/pressure or time/quantity relationship
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02M—SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M43/00—Fuel-injection apparatus operating simultaneously on two or more fuels, or on a liquid fuel and another liquid, e.g. the other liquid being an anti-knock additive
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
    • F02B3/00—Engines characterised by air compression and subsequent fuel addition
    • F02B3/06—Engines characterised by air compression and subsequent fuel addition with compression ignition

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  • the present invention relates to a system and a method for feeding fuel to a diesel engine which make use of fuel oil containing fine particles of solid fuel such as pulverized coal or the like.
  • a prior art fuel injection system for a diesel engine using a high cetane number auxiliary fuel for the burning process is described in EP-A-0 282 819.
  • This known system comprises an injection valve including a needle valve, an oil reservoir provided in the injection valve, a fuel feed pipe for supplying an amount of auxiliary fuel determined by a control valve from an auxiliary fuel tank through a check valve to the oil reservoir.
  • a high pressure pump feeds main fuel from a main fuel tank under pressure to the oil reservoir in the injection valve.
  • a recirculation valve is provided which opens and closes periodically with the action of a pump plunger and the control valve in the auxiliary fuel feed pipe which in return is controlled by a control unit in accordance with the pump action.
  • a method and an apparatus for injecting coal slurry fuel containing fine solid particles into a diesel engine combustion chamber is known from US-A-4 862 837 which represents the closest state of the art.
  • the coal slurry fuel is fed by means of a pump from a fuel tank through a check valve to an oil reservoir within an injection valve comprising a needle valve.
  • the fuel in the reservoir is pressurized by high pressure oil pressurized in a high pressure pump and fed to a diaphragm pump through which the pressure is applied to the coal slurry fuel without mixing the pressure oil and the fuel. Due to the pressure transmission through the diaphragm pump the injection is perfomed by means of a vortex swirl nozzle at a relatively low pressure.
  • there is a danger of wear of the portions being in contact with the pressurized coal slurry fuel since there is a comparatively long distance for transportion of the pressurized coal slurry fuel from the diaphragm pump to the injection valve.
  • a fuel feed system for a fine-particle-mixed fuel burning diesel engine for feeding fuel oil containing fine particles of solid fuel into said diesel engine to be burnt, comprising an injection valve including a needle valve for opening and closing a path between an oil reservoir section provided within said injection valve and a nozzle hole; a fuel feed pipe provided between the oil reservoir section and a fuel tank for said fuel containing fine particles; a control valve provided within said fuel feed pipe for controlling an amount of fuel flowing through said fuel feed pipe; a check valve provided within said injection valve for allowing only flow of fuel from said control valve towards said oil reservoir section; a high-pressure pump for pressurizing oil fed from an oil tank; a pressure wave propagation pipe connecting a delivery port of said high-pressure pump and said oil reservoir section in the injection valve; a recirculation valve for opening and closing said pressure wave propagation pipe; a recirculation pipe provided between said recirculation valve and said oil tank; and a control device for controlling opening and closing of said recirculation
  • the fuel feed system of the present invention comprises a control rack detector for detecting a position of a control rack which controls a delivery amount of said high-pressure pump and for delivering a detection signal to said control device.
  • a method for feeding fuel to a fine-particle-mixed fuel burning diesel engine in which fuel oil containing fine particles of solid fuel is to be burnt, comprising the steps of: feeding said fuel oil containing fine particles of solid fuel in a predetermined amount from a fuel tank to an oil reservoir section within an injection valve by means of a pump; pressurizing high-pressure oil fed from an oil tank by means of a high-pressure pump and delivering said pressurized oil through a pressure wave propagation pipe towards said oil reservoir section so as to thereby pressurize the fuel within said oil reservoir section; injecting the thus pressurized fuel contained in the oil reservoir section through a nozzle hole of the injection valve; recirculating said pressurized oil back to said oil tank through a recirculation pipe as soon as the predetermined amount of fuel contained in the oil reservoir section is injected from the nozzle hole so as to not inject said pressurized oil through the nozzle hole.
  • the above method for feeding fuel to a fine-particle-mixed fuel burning diesel engine preferably further comprises the steps of determining a delivery amount of said pressurized oil of the high-pressure pump and controlling said predetermined amount of fuel containing fine particles of solid fuel fed from the fuel tank to the oil reservoir section in accordance therewith.
  • fuel containing fine particles of the amount controlled by the control valve which is in turn controlled by the control device, is sent from the fuel tank through the fuel feed pipe to the oil reservoir in the fuel injection valve.
  • the oil within the oil tank is pressurized by the high-pressure pump, and a pressure wave of the oil is transmitted to the above-mentioned oil reservoir through the pressure wave propagation pipe, and the above-mentioned fuel containing fine particles which is present within the oil reservoir is injected through the nozzle hole of the injection valve.
  • the oil sent to the injection valve through the recirculation valve controlled by the control device is returned to the oil tank, and so, deterioration of the oil can be precluded.
  • fuel containing fine particles is never fed to the high-pressure pump, hence seizure of the plunger of the same pump does not occur, and also, only the fuel containing fine particles is injected through the nozzle hole of the injection valve.
  • a detection signal issued from the control rack detector for detecting a position of the control rack which controls a delivery amount of the high-pressure pump is input to the control device, and the amount of fuel containing fine particles to be fed to the oil reservoir is controlled on the basis of the amount of oil delivered from the high-pressure pump by the control device, only the same fuel containing fine particles is surely injected through the nozzle hole of the injection valve, and the oil propagating the pressure wave can be prevented from being injected through the nozzle hole.
  • reference numeral 1 designates an oil tank which accommodates oil for propagating a pressure wave to a fuel valve
  • numeral 2 designates an oil feed pump
  • numeral 3 designates a high-pressure injection pump
  • numeral 4 designates a plunger
  • numeral 5 designates a barrel
  • numeral 6 designates a delivery valve
  • numeral 7 designates a pressure-regulating check valve
  • numeral 8 designates a pressure wave propagation pipe
  • numeral 9 designates a fuel injection valve
  • numeral 10 designates a nozzle hole
  • numeral 11 designates a needle valve
  • numeral 12 designates an oil reservoir section
  • numeral 13 designates a check valve
  • numeral 14 designates a spring
  • numeral 15 designates a feed pipe
  • numeral 16 designates a control valve
  • numeral 17 designates a fuel feed pipe
  • numeral 18 designates a fuel feed pump
  • numeral 19 designates a fuel tank for fuel containing fine particles of coal
  • numeral 20 designates a control
  • Fuel containing fine particles of coal is fed by the fuel feed pump 18 from the fuel tank 19 through the fuel feed pipe 17 and enters the control valve 16, and during a pause period of fuel injection and after circulation of the oil in the pressure propagation pipe 8 has finished, a predetermined amount of fuel containing fine particles of coal is sent into the fuel injection valve 9 through the feed pipe 15.
  • the recirculation valve 21 is opened via the drive motor 21' as controlled by the control device 20, thereby the oil for use in pressure wave propagation is recirculated via the recirculation pipe 22 to the oil tank 1, and so, deterioration of the oil can be prevented.
  • fuel containing fine particles of solid fuel can be injected at a high pressure from an injection valve into a combustion chamber without introducing such fine-particle-mixed fuel into a barrel (plunger chamber) in a high-pressure pump.
  • seizure of a high-pressure pump plunger caused by fine particles of solid fuel having a high hardness can be precluded, and in addition, since provision is made such that the oil for propagating a pressure wave from a high-pressure pump is also circulated, the fault in propagation of a hydraulic pressure due to deterioration of oil can be also eliminated.

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  1. Système d'alimentation en carburant d'un moteur diesel brûlant un carburant mélangé à de fines particules, le système étant destiné à transmettre au moteur diesel un carburant diesel contenant de fines particules de combustible solide afin qu'il soit brûlé, comprenant :
    un injecteur (9) comprenant une soupape (11) à pointeau destinée à ouvrir et fermer un trajet formé entre une section (12) de réserve de carburant diesel placée dans l'injecteur (9) et un trou (10) de buse,
    un tube (15) d'alimentation en carburant placé entre la section (12) de réserve de carburant diesel et un réservoir (19) de carburant destiné au carburant contenant de fines particules,
    une pompe à haute pression (3) destinée à mettre sous pression le carburant diesel transmis à partir d'un réservoir (1) de carburant, caractérisé par :
    une soupape de commande (16) placée dans le tube (15) d'alimentation en carburant afin qu'elle règle la quantité de carburant circulant dans le tube (15) d'alimentation en carburant,
    un clapet de retenue (13) placé dans l'injecteur (9) et destiné à ne permettre la circulation du carburant que de la soupape de commande (16) vers la section (12) de réserve de carburant diesel,
    un tube (8) de propagation d'une onde de pression raccordant un orifice de refoulement de la pompe à haute pression (3) et la section (12) de réserve de carburant dans l'injecteur (9),
    une soupape de recirculation (21) destinée à ouvrir et fermer le tube (8) de propagation d'onde de pression,
    un tube (22) de recirculation placé entre la soupape de recirculation (21) et le réservoir (1) de carburant diesel, et
    un dispositif de commande (20) destiné à commander l'ouverture et la fermeture de la soupape de recirculation (21) et de la soupape de commande (16) de manière que, après la fin de l'injection du carburant, la soupape de recirculation (21) soit ouverte et assure la recirculation du carburant diesel destiné à être utilisé dans la propagation de l'onde de pression par l'intermédiaire du tube de recirculation (22) vers le réservoir (1) de carburant diesel d'une manière telle que le carburant diesel utilisé pour la propagation de l'onde de pression n'est pas injecté.
  2. Système d'alimentation en carburant d'un moteur diesel brûlant un carburant mélangé à de fines particules selon la revendication 1, comprenant en outre un détecteur (23) de crémaillère de commande destiné à détecter la position d'une crémaillère de commande (24) qui règle la quantité distribuée par la pompe à haute pression (3) et à transmettre un signal de détection au dispositif de commande (20).
  3. Système d'alimentation en carburant d'un moteur diesel brûlant un carburant mélangé à de fines particules selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel :
    un clapet de retenue (7) de régulation de pression est placé dans la pompe à haute pression (3) afin qu'il permette la circulation uniquement du tube (8) de propagation de l'onde de pression vers la pompe à haute pression (3),
    une pression (PR) d'ouverture du clapet (7) de régulation de pression et une pression (PP) d'ouverture du clapet de retenue (13) et une pression (PN) d'ouverture de la soupape à pointeau (11) sont préréglées d'après la relation PN > PP > PR, et
    la pression du carburant transmis par le réservoir de carburant (19) est supérieure à la pression PP et inférieure à la pression PN et la pression du carburant diesel transmis par la pompe à haute pression (3) est supérieure à la pression PN.
  4. Procédé d'alimentation en carburant d'un moteur diesel brûlant un carburant mélangé à de fines particules, dans lequel un carburant diesel contenant de fines particules d'un combustible solide est destiné à être brûlé, comprenant les étapes suivantes :
    la transmission d'un carburant diesel contenant de fines particules de combustible solide en quantité prédéterminée à partir d'un réservoir de carburant (19) à une section (12) de réserve de carburant formée dans un injecteur (9), à l'aide d'une pompe (18),
    la mise sous pression du carburant à haute pression transmis à partir du réservoir de carburant (1) à l'aide d'une pompe à haute pression (3), caractérisé par la transmission du carburant sous pression par un tube (8) de propagation d'une onde de pression vers la section (12) de réserve de carburant afin que le carburant contenu dans la section (12) de réserve de carburant soit mis sous pression,
    l'injection du carburant ainsi mis sous pression, contenu dans la section (12) de réserve de carburant, par un trou (10) de buse de l'injecteur (9),
    la recirculation du carburant sous pression vers le réservoir de carburant (1) par un tube de recirculation (22) dès que la quantité prédéterminée de carburant contenu dans la section (12) de réserve de carburant est injectée à partir du trou (10) de buse afin que le carburant sous pression ne soit pas injecté par le trou (10) de buse.
  5. Procédé d'alimentation en carburant d'un moteur diesel brûlant un carburant mélangé à de fines particules selon la revendication 4, comprenant en outre l'étape suivante :
       la détermination de la quantité de distribution de carburant diesel sous pression par la pompe à haute pression (3) et le réglage de la quantité prédéterminée de carburant contenant de fines particules de combustible solide transmis du réservoir (19) de carburant à la section (12) de réserve de carburant d'une manière correspondante.
  6. Procédé d'alimentation en carburant d'un moteur diesel brûlant un carburant auquel sont mélangées de fines particules selon la revendication 4 ou 5, dans lequel :
    le carburant transmis à partir du réservoir de carburant (19) à une section (12) de réserve de carburant par la pompe (18) est transmis à une pression supérieure à une pression (PP) d'ouverture d'un clapet de retenue (13) placé dans l'injecteur (9) sur le trajet du carburant en amont de la section (12) de réserve de carburant et inférieure à une pression (PN) d'ouverture d'une soupape à pointeau (11) disposée sur un trajet formé entre la section (12) de réserve de carburant et un trou (10) de buse, et
    le carburant diesel à haute pression transmis par la pompe à haute pression (3) vers la section (12) de réserve de carburant est mis à une pression supérieure à la pression (PN) d'ouverture de la soupape à pointeau (11).
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