Biodiesel fuel (BDF) can be effectively used as an alternative fuel in diesel engines. The BDF, however, may affect performance and exhaust emissions of the diesel engine because it's physical and chemical properties are different with from the diesel fuel such as viscosity, compressibility and so on. To investigate an effect of injection timing on characteristics of performance and exhaust emissions with the BDF in an IDI diesel engine, this research applied the BDF derived from soybean oil in this study. The engine was operated with six different injection timings from TDC to BTDC 12 ˚CA and six different loads at the engine speed of 1500 and 2000 rpm. In less then the BDF 20, it showed the similar trend compare to the diesel fuel. But, the best injection timing was 2˚CA retarded compare to the diesel fuel with BDF 50.

The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of operating conditions on the performance of small HSDI compression ignition engine. Combustion and exhaust emission characteristics of engine were studied by using CFD simulation with ECFM-3Z combustion model. The conditions of simulation were varied with injection timing, injection pressure, and operating speed, and the results were compared in terms of combustion pressure, rate of heat release, NOx and soot. It was found that as injection timing was advanced and injection pressure is increased, combustion pressure and rate of heat release were increased. As a result, NOx generation is increased. Soot generation is also increased due to the wall film caused by the increase of the injection pressure and locally the rich mixture caused by the effect of the advancing of injection timing.

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.