Możliwości określenia prędkości krytycznej pojazdu na podstawie badań jego dynamiki poprzecznej

In this paper, the parameters important for lateral dynamics of vehicles are analyzed in order to establish the values of its critical speed on the moment of losing the stability. The values of the vehicle’s speed yaw rate, the steering wheel angle, the lateral acceleration, and the roll angle obtained from experimental tests are filtered according to the set conditions and only the general values that mean the beginning of the vehicle slipping are selected. For more precise assessment of the selected values, a statistical analysis is carried out. The Normal distribution law describes scattering of the selected values in the most relevant way and concretizes the critical speed being established. In the end of the paper, the obtained values of the speed are compared to the results of the theoretical calculations. Conclusions assessing the developed technique of selection of the parameters are provided.Niniejsza praca analizuje parametry istotne dla dynamiki poprzecznej pojazdów w celu ustalenia wartości prędkości krytycznej w momencie utraty przez nie stabilności. Wartości szybkości zboczenia przez pojazd z kursu, kąta skrętu kierownicy, przyśpieszenia poprzecznego oraz kąta odchylenia się pojazdu, uzyskane w badaniach doświadczalnych, dobrano pod kątem założonych warunków i tylko ogólne wartości oznaczające początek poślizgu pojazdu zostały wybrane. W celu dokładniejszej oceny wybranych wartości przeprowadzono analizę statystyczną. Prawo rozkładu normalnego opisuje odpowiednie rozproszenie wybranych wartości i konkretyzuje ustaloną prędkość krytyczną. W końcowej części pracy porównano uzyskane wartości prędkości z wynikami obliczeń teoretycznych. Wnioski służą ocenie opracowanej techniki doboru parametrów

Preliminary tests on a combined heat and power unit fed with gas fuels

This paper presents a model unit demonstrating the possibility of using a PBCHP10VB CHP unit driven by a piston combustion engine fed with gas fuels for heat and power cogeneration. A mobile unit available in the Department enables heat and power cogeneration at any place with available gas fuel, e.g. compressed in a pressure tank or from a production and transmission system. A radiator is connected to the unit’s heat connection for demonstrative purposes – this is the simplest model of a network using the heat generated by the unit, with the possibility of easy connection to another network for heating rooms and/or tap water instead of this radiator. Any three-phase load (e.g. a single phase converter) can be connected to the unit’s power connection. A constructed mobile power generator fed with alternative gas fuels (e.g. biogas) is described which can be used in the field in a biogas system for power generation with simultaneous heat recovery. The results of the first preliminary tests on the effect of the type of gas fuel used on the obtained electrical and thermal power and on the composition of exhaust gas from the driving combustion engine are presented. A plan for further tests is also outlined

Evaluating combustion, performance and emission characteristics of CI engine operating on diesel fuel enriched with HHO gas

Research of efficient and ecological parameters was carried out with compression ignition (CI) engine using diesel fuel and additionally supplied hydrogen and oxygen (HHO) gas mixture. HHO gas is produced by electrolysis when the water was dissociating. At constant engine‘s brake torque and with increasing HHO gas volumetric concentration in taken air up to 0.2%, engine efficient indicators varies marginally, however, with bigger HHO concentration these parameters becomes worse. HHO increases smokiness, but it decreases NOx concentration in exhaust gas. Numerical analysis of combustion process using AVL BOOST software lets to conclude that hydrogen, which is found in HHO gas, ignites faster than diesel fuel and air mixture. Hydrogen combustion before TDC makes a negative work and it changes diesel fuel combustion process – diesel ignition delay phase becomes shorter, kinetic (premixed) combustion phase intensity gets smaller

Experimental analysis of noise and vibration of a diesel engine

Noise and vibration of ignition compression engine is one of the most complicated fields to cope with since every mechanism that compose of the engine affect them separately. In this study, effect of diesel on engine noise and vibration has been studied on an unmodified compression ignition engine. Noise and vibration characteristic of a direct ignition engine, which was fuelled with diesel, were investigated. With the usage of equations obtained from regression analysis, estimation of engine characteristic fuelled with various biodiesels researches were carried out. Tests were conducted at fixed injection timing of diesel fuel. The first system is for diesel fuel injection; the second one is PFI (port-fuelled injection) and is used for injecting alcohol into the engine intake manifold. The engine applied to this study was a naturally aspirated, 3in-line, IVECO AIFO 8031 i06.05 diesel engine with direct injection. Experiments were conducted in a sound insulated room. For each experiment, vibration data gathered from the engine block with 3.2 kHz (for vibration) for 2 s and with 20 kHz sampling frequency for 0.320 s. All measurements were performed under conditions: angle 10; 4 different loads (4, 8, 12 and 20 kW)