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Piezoelectric Diesel Injectors & Emission Control
Shashank. M
Final Year-Mechanical Engineering, Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Arcot Road, Kodambakkam, Chennai, India
Abstract: Diesel Injectors are one of the changing parameters in engine design. Piezoelectric Diesel Injectors are one of the changing
designs adopted in engine systems especially CRDi engines. It enables better fuel economy and emission control. This paper provides
with an overview, design and constructional features, working and applications of piezoelectric diesel Injectors.
Keywords: Piezoelectric, crystals, CRDi, Atomization, Emission.
1. Introduction
In a diesel engine, combustion within the cylinder is closely
related to the injection process. By controlling injection
timing and duration, fuel quantity, and rate shape (flow rate
profile as a function of time), it is possible to effectively
control engine performance. A single injection rate profile
will not simultaneously provide the lowest emissions, best
fuel economy, and highest torque performance. Bosch,
Continental, and Delphi, among others, have harnessed this
peculiar property of expanding piezo material—rather than
the usual electromagnet—to open the fuel-injector nozzle
and precisely spray fuel into both gasoline and diesel
engines. This led to the invention of piezoelectric diesel
Injectors. The basic principle involved is piezoelectric and
inverse piezoelectric effect.
2. Design Features
Piezo injectors use piezoelectric technology to open and close
fuel injectors at extremely high speeds and precision to inject
fuel into an internal combustion engine. These injectors are
used in both petrol and diesel engines to improve their
performance and efficiency. Piezo electricity results from
squeezing or applying pressure from certain crystal like
materials or certain ceramics. If this process is reversed and
electricity is applied to these same materials they will expand
and return to their original size as soon as the electricity is cut
off. The expansion of one crystal is too small to see with the
naked eye. One reason is that the expansion of the piezo
crystals is minuscule.
A slice of piezo material two-hundredths of an inch thick
expands only about 0.00002 inch when it gets hit with
roughly 140 volts of electricity. That two-hundred-
thousandths of an inch is not nearly enough to move an
injector’s pintle, which is the part that seals the nozzle and
must open to inject fuel.
Figure 1: .Piezoelectric Injector Construction
3. Operation
The Continental injector has hundreds of little piezo slices
stacked on top of each other so that the combined expansion
increases the total motion. The stack produces 0.004 inch of
movement—enough to move the pintle far enough to inject
fuel. But because this motion is in the wrong direction—
down, not up—the addition of two tiny levers allows the
expansion of the piezo stack to cause the pintle to be lifted
and the fuel spray to begin. When the injection is complete,
the voltage cuts off, the piezo stack shrinks, and a spring
closes the pintle. In a piezo injector, the electronic engine
management system also sends an electrical signal to the
valve. But the unique property of a piezo crystal is that it
changes shape when exposed to electric current. The actual
movement is microscopic, but enough to make the piezo
element act as the valve. Piezo injectors are quieter and more
precise than solenoid units, a benefit in a microsecond
environment, but they are more expensive.
4. Benefits
Piezo injectors have a few key benefits that justify all of this
bother. For one thing, they open and close much faster than
conventional injectors. That makes for more precise control
of the injection interval, which determines how much fuel is
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sprayed into the engine. Piezo units also provide feedback by
producing minute fluctuations in the electricity used to
activate them.
For example, if the engine-control computer calls for an
injector-opening time of 0.5 second, and the injector response
shows that it opened for only 0.496 second, the computer can
add a tiny bit of time to the next injection cycle to
compensate. Such precise fuel metering makes for improved
combustion, which leads to better fuel economy and reduced
emissions.
Not only are piezo injectors more accurate than conventional
solid injectors, they also can perform some tricks that are
completely beyond the capabilities of their predecessors. For
one thing, by applying a little less electricity, the piezo
crystals expand less so the injectors can open partway. A
smaller opening means a longer injection time, which is
beneficial when trying to accurately inject a tiny amount of
fuel, such as when a car is nearly coasting. Because they act
so quickly, piezo injectors also can inject several times (as
many as seven in some diesels) during a single combustion
cycle. This flexibility can reduce emissions in all engines as
well as limit soot in diesels.
Figure 2: Atomized Fuel Spraying out of Injector.
5. Applications
Piezoelectric Diesel Injectors finds its application in CRDi-
Common Rail Direct Injection Engines. CRDi stands for
Common Rail Direct Injection meaning, direct injection of
the fuel into the cylinders of a diesel engine via a single,
common line, called the common rail which is connected to
all the fuel injectors. Whereas ordinary diesel direct fuel-
injection systems have to build up pressure anew for each and
every injection cycle, the new common rail (line) engines
maintain constant pressure regardless of the injection
sequence. This pressure then remains permanently available
throughout the fuel line. The engine's electronic timing
regulates injection pressure according to engine speed and
load. The electronic control unit (ECU) modifies injection
pressure precisely and as needed, based on data obtained
from sensors on the cam and crankshafts. In other words,
compression and injection occur independently of each other.
This technique allows fuel to be injected as needed, saving
fuel and lowering emissions.
Figure 3: Common Rail Direct Injection System
The Common Rail system in particular gives engine
developers the freedom they need to reduce exhaust
emissions even further, and especially to lower engine noise.
The particular design of Common Rail, with its flexible
division of injection into several pre-, main and post-
injections, allows the engine and the injection system to be
matched to each other in the best possible way.
In the Common Rail accumulator injection system, the
generation of the injection pressure is separate from the
injection itself. A high-pressure pump generates in an
accumulator – the rail – a pressure of up to 1,600 bar
(determined by the injection pressure setting in the engine
control unit), independently of the engine speed and the
quantity of fuel injected. The fuel is fed through rigid pipes to
the injectors, which inject the correct amount of fuel in a fine
spray into the combustion chambers. The Electronic Diesel
Control (EDC) controls extremely precisely all the injection
parameters – such as the pressure in the Rail and the timing
and duration of injection – as well as performing other engine
functions.
6. Advantages
Some of the advantages of using piezoelectric diesel injectors
are as follows.
• Increased injection pressure
• Less emissions
• Multiple-nozzle injection
• Enhanced injection timing.
• 5 times faster than conventional injectors.
7. Emission Control
Emissions is a collective term that is used to describe the
undesired gases and particles which are released into the air
or emitted by various sources, Its amount and the type change
with a change in the industrial activity, technology, and a
number of other factors, such as air pollution regulations and
emissions controls. Undesirable Emissions in Internal
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Combustion engines are of major concern because of their
negative impact on air quality, human health, and global
warming. Therefore, there is a concerted effort by most
governments to control them. Undesirable emissions include
unburned hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO),
nitrogen oxides (NOx), and particulate matter (PM).
With the advent of catalytic converters, automobile industries
have always found a way to reduce hydrocarbons and NOx
emissions from the IC engines. CO2 emission reduction is the
greatest challenge still to be resolved. By designing better
injectors CO2 emissions can be completely reduced. One of
the fine methods to reduce CO2 is to use less fuel.
Piezoelectric Injectors help in injecting fine spray of diesel
which indirectly reduces the fuel consumption.
8. Conclusion
Even though there are several approaches being taken in
reduction of CO2 and other toxic emissions. Two of the main
methods adopted are either usage of alternate fuels or design
parameters change inside the IC Engine system .The design of
Piezoelectric Diesel Injectors greatly contribute to the
emission control. Changes in Injector nozzle positioning and
orientation angles can also contribute to less fuel
consumption.
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Valve Actuator for Flexible Diesel Operation”, Midé
Technology Corporation, 200 Boston Ave, Suite 1000,
Medford, MA, USA 02155.
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Author Profile
Shashank .M is pursuing his Bachelors Engineering
degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently
studying final year in Meenakshi Sundarajan
Engineering College, Arcot Road, Kodambakkam,
Chennai, India. His field of interest is Automobile
Engineering and is passionate in application of Computer Aided
Design in Product Development.
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