This study is designed to measure the impact of a car’s horse power and torque - aspects related to performance among various factors that affect consumer purchase decision-on consumers when buying a car. The research of the results can be interpreted as indicating that the premise, “The impact of torque and horsepower on consumer purchase decision is not significant,” is true.

Increasing specific power, torque and high responsibility have come to the fore as the important strategy of reducing fuel consumption in vehicle engines. Therefore, the boosting performance of various boosting devices has been investigated using a diesel engine simulation program. For the comparison of boosting performance, the simulation result of a naturally aspirated 2.0 liter engine is used as a basis. Subsequently, the boosting effects of single turbocharger, single supercharger and 2-stage boosting system combined with a turbocharger and a supercharger are compared at the same engine condition. The simulation results show that the 2-stage boosting system can attain lower specific fuel consumption and higher air mass flow. In low engine speed range, a supercharger mainly leads higher boosting performance with higher responsibility in the combined boosting system.

This experimental work was performed to reveal the effect of intake air temperature on the improvement of performance and exhaust emissions in a SI engine. To achieve this, fuel consumption rate, combustion pressure, rate of heat release, and reduction of exhaust emissions were measured and compared in 4-cylinder spark ignition engine. It was founded that lower intake air temperature can lead higher combustion pressure and heat release rate due to the higher intake air flow rate, volumetric efficiency, and fuel consumption rate. At the same time, higher intake air temperature leads to the longer ignition delay time, therefore, retarded ignition of engine was observed. Lower CO and HC values were also observed as the intake air temperature increases.

In the world economy and the shipping industry, container, bulk carriers and oil tanker vessels are undergoing a bigger difficulty because of the imbalance on supply and demand with the view that ship's loading capacity is exceeded. For this reason, shipping companies are trying to reduce the operating cost through slow steaming. Thus, under this condition of continuous recession in shipping industry, saving on fuel consumption is the main issue. In this study, tests were conducted to find out the method of reducing fuel oil consumption by economically operating the ships, taking into account the main engine power and speed. The subject vessel's fuel consumption compared to the output is lower near the range of 138~157RPM. The engine speed showed significant increment to 144RPM and fuel consumption increased rapidly compared to the engine speed at 15knots and above. During sea trial test, the subject vessel's specific fuel rate(SFR) was 134.25[g/BHPh] while the calculated value after 10 years of operation is 137.1[g/BHPh] at speed range of 148~150RPM which is 70% of the load and this indicates an increase of approximately 2.1%.

본 연구에서는 건조 후 20여년 운항한 군산대학교 실습선 해림호의 발전기를 대상으로 직접 선박현장에서 실험하여 최적 연료분사시기를 규명해서 선박의 경제적이고 친환경적인 운항에 도움을 주고자 연구하였다. 실험은 기관회전속도 1,200 rpm으로 일정히 유지하고, 기관부하를 0 kW에서 90 kW까지 30 kW간격으로 변화시켰으며, 연료분사시기는 BTDC 19o에서 23o까지 2o 간격으로 변화시키면서 실험하였다. 실험결과 연료분사시기를 BTDC 21°에서 BTDC 23°로 앞당길 경우, 연료소비율은 1.37 % 감소하였고, 질소산화물은 11.59 % 증가하였으며, 매연은 23.5 % 감소하였고, 아황산가스는 2.8 % 감소하였다. 따라서 노후 발전기 엔진에 있어서 연료분사시기가 연소특성 및 배기배출물특성에 미치는 영향을 종합적으로 분석․고찰한 결과, 최적 연료분사시기는 원래의 분사시기보다 2° 앞당겨진 BTDC 23°로 확인되었다.

The gas flow and heat transfer inside an EGR cooler for a diesel engine are numerically analyzed to investigate the performance of EGR cooler. The commercial code FLUENT is utilized to simulate a single spiral tube with constant wall temperature condition. The numerical analysis is performed with the variation of exhaust gas flow rates according to engine speed. The computational results agree well with the experimental results published before. The results show that the maximum error rate is about 0.6% for all operating conditions. Thus a single tube model with constant wall temperature condition is appropriate for simulating EGR cooler.

In a bi-fuel engine using gasoline and LPG fuel, with the current ignition timing for gasoline being used, the optimum performance could not be taken in LPG fuel supply mode. The ignition timing in LPG fuel mode must be advanced much more than that of gasoline mode for the compensation of its higher ignition temperature. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the ignition spark timing conversion influences the engine performance of LPG/Gasoline Bi-Fuel engine. In order to investigate the engine performance during combustion, engine performance are sampled by data acquisition system, for example cylinder pressure, pressure rise rate and heat release rate, while change of the rpm(1500, 2000, 2500) and the ignition timing advance(5°, 10°, 15°, 20°). As the result, between 1500rpm, 2000rpm and 2500rpm, the cylinder pressure and pressure rise rate was increased when the spark ignition was advanced but pressure rise rate at 20° was smaller value.

In this study, the potential possibility of oxygenates on butyl ether(below BE) was investigated as an combustion activator for a direct injection diesel engine. It tested to estimate change of engine performance and exhaust emission characteristics for the diesel fuel and oxygenates additives blended fuel which has four kinds of blended ratio. The smoke of blended fuel(diesel fuel 80vol-%+BE 20vol-%) was reduced in comparison with diesel fuel, that is, it was reduced approximately 26%. And, power, torque and brake specific fuel consumption(BSFC) didn't have no large differences. But, NOx of BE blended fuel was increased compared with diesel fuel.

In late years, from a trend for ecology of auto motive engine, low emission and low fuel consumption of engine become a social assignment. At the same time, the high output (high efficiency) is required, too. In order to meet those requirements, in comparison with conventional engines, lean A/F (Air fuel ratio) setting is becoming popular for the high performance engines of late years. Exhaust valve seat (sintered material) used in these engines has a problem in wear resistance, because it is exposed to the surroundings that is clean and a high temperature in comparison with the conventional engines. Therefore, wear mechanism with lean A/F of engine was analyzed.The exhaust valve seat (sintered material), that was superior in wear resistance, was developed.

In order to investigate the effectiveness of methanol, which has high latent heat of evaporation and oxygen contents, for DI diesel engine performance and exhaust emission, the methanol was injected at the suction port of DI diesel engine. The injector used for test was conventional gasoline engine injector and controlled the quantity of methanol per cycle by the power supply controller which designed specially for injector. The results shown that the maximum pressure point was delayed, the value of maximum pressure was decreased, and the concentrations of both NOx and Soot were decreased, as the methanol injection quantity increased, and also the thermal efficiency of engine injected methanol under the high load condition was similar to no methanol injection but under the medium load condition was decreased within the experimental conditions.

This paper is an experimental study to investigate utility of ultrasonic treatment of fuel oil in diesel engine. Experiment was carrid out to clarify the effect of ultrsonic vibration on the characteristics of maximum pressure, fuel consumption ratio, smoke, BMEP and torque. The result obtained are as follows: 1. In the case of given ultrsonic vibration, the maximum pressure is increased in all experimental conditions. 2. In the case of given ultrsonic vibration, the decrease effect of fuel consumption rate is increased at low rpm. 3. The generation quantity of soots is increased according to load. In the case of given ultrsonic vibration, the decreased quantity of soots does not very according to load. 4. In the case of given ultrsonic vibration, the BMEP and torque are increased at low load.

국산 소형어선용 예연소실식 디젤기관의 연료유를 가열할 경우, 연소특성 및 기관성능에 미치는 영향에 관하여 실험한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1) 연료유 분사시작점은 연료유 가열온도의 증가에 따라 늦어지는 경향을 나타냈으며, 특히 저부하 운전시 늦어지는 경향이 현저했다. 2) 연소최고압력점은 연료유 가열온도의 증가에 따라 늦어졌으며, 연소최고압력은 연료유 가열온도 증가에 따라 감소하였으나 부하의 증가에 따라 증가하는 경향을 나타내었다. 3) 연료소비율은 부하의 증가에 따라 감소하였으며, 연료소비율이 가장 작은 연료유의 최적가열온도는 150℃부근임을 나타내고 있다. 4) 그을음농도는 부하와 연료유 가열온도의 증가에 따라 증가하는 경향을 나타냈다.

(1) 디이젤기관용 대체연료로서 혼합유가 디이젤유의 연료에 대한 특성을 검토하였다. (2) 혼합유로서 디이젤기관을 운전할 경우 배기가스량은 디이젤유보다 평균 8% 정도 많음을 나타내었다. (3) 혼합유로서 디이젤기관을 운전할 경우 디이젤유에 비하여 연료소비량이 약 3% 정도 증가하였다. (4) 정미열효율에 있어서는 디이젤유와 혼합유는 거의 비슷한 상태를 나타내었다.