diesel exhaust heat recovery
diesel exhaust heat recovery
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Besides known EGR principle to lower NOx and partly to heat up engine quicker will there be any benefit to warm air intake throuh exhaust heat exchanger. By ideal gas law higher than compression ratio higher the efficiency of the engine (of course CR engines in practise has retard injection to some point thus extraction of heat does not start at TDC). If the air itake is warm up by the hot exhaust the overal efficieny would'n increase since from the gas law thermal efficiency is difference of temperatures at TDC and BDC and if the intake air is hotter that only means that exhaust would be hoter but temp differences of TDC and BDC would stay the same (in theory).
So this would only gain efficiency if we used combined cycle where we'll use exhaust heat to make steam and run steam turbine.
Also some exhaust kinetic energy (when exhaust valve opens there are still some pressure, round 5 bar) can be extracted via turbogenerator (turbine wheel powering alternator).
So this would only gain efficiency if we used combined cycle where we'll use exhaust heat to make steam and run steam turbine.
Also some exhaust kinetic energy (when exhaust valve opens there are still some pressure, round 5 bar) can be extracted via turbogenerator (turbine wheel powering alternator).





RE: diesel exhaust heat recovery
I was thinking the above,
And then saw this:
so, confused.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTTXKtqKRxc
RE: diesel exhaust heat recovery
In general, no. You generally want the intake air as cold as is feasible, for increased charge energy density.
Yes, you could use exhaust heat to create steam and drive a turbine- but you'd be asking the ICE engine to do more work than it is already doing. The air that carries that heat must be pumped, and the engine is going to provide that pumping power.
There is no free lunch.
RE: diesel exhaust heat recovery
This is not used on RICE (reciprocating internal combustion engines) for the reasons given by others above.
RE: diesel exhaust heat recovery
I didn't watch that entire video, but it appears to me that by accelerating the EVC event they are just creating 'passive' EGR behavior.
This does cause some charge heating- but after the charge is inside the cylinder and the IV is closed. That's a different animal than heating the charge and then having to pump that lower-density air at the same mass flow rate.
RE: diesel exhaust heat recovery
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The typical scheme is to boil a low boiling point organic (butane) and then drive a small turbine with this working fluid.
These systems are referred to as ORC and common in recovering energy from low value sources (also used in generating power from geothermal heat).
It takes a lot of equipment and controls to run these systems well.
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RE: diesel exhaust heat recovery
Yes one can recover heat from the engine, but this this is not what the op raised.
Heat recovery from exhaust, jacket water, lube oil etc is common and known as combined heat and power / cogeneration.
Using exhaust heat to raise combustion air inlet temperature is a different principle.
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I can't find a reference to it on the internet - but I seem to recall that Volvo had what they called a "adiabatic" diesel engine where the exhaust heated the intake air. Plus there were other heating saving measures like ceramic piston tops and cylinders - the idea being that as little heat as possible was lost. I think they got pretty good results from it but (as far as I know) it never went into production.
There was also Smokey Yunick's "Mystery Engine".
RE: diesel exhaust heat recovery
Also turbogenerators like found in F1 race cars could be used on either petrol or diesel engines, since there are sufficient pressure and kinetic energy of exhaust gases that could be extracted (by the studies round 5 to 10kW alternators could be fitted to turbine on average petrol car's engine).
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2005/12/bmw_develo...
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Roy Kamo did a lot of work on this, most of it government funded. I saw him give his sales pitch once in the 1990's. He founded a little company that still does stuff related to thermal barrier coatings, etc.
Also, Toyota claimed back in about 1993 that they would have an adiabatic diesel engine in production within five years. Once again, the revolution never happened.
Maybe Volvo did something similar but I never saw anything on that engine.
On the original post:
For max efficiency on an engine cycle, whenever you are compressing a fluid, the fluid should be as cold as possible.
Why? So that there is less work done compressing the fluid. If you are doing the compression in two stages, cool the fluid between the stages.
Bottom line:
Unless you are trying to warm up the engine quicker, don't heat up intake air on an IC engine.
j2bprometheus
RE: diesel exhaust heat recovery
As it is, the intake charge is heated as it is being drawn into the engine. Heat is transferred into the intake charge from the combustion chamber, piston, and cylinder. It then heats up more under compression, but some of the heat during combustion is transferred into the metals that compose the combustion chamber.
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Incidentally, as a new graduate from UBC in 1986, I met Roy Kamo when he visited as a judge for the Expo 86 IVDC (innovative vehicle design competition, hosted by UBC Engineering), and I ended up applying and getting an offer for a job with his outfit, Adiabatic Engines. While they were prepared to sponsor my application for a green card, it fell through because there were too many out of work mechanical engineers in the Indianapolis area at the time, which effectively blocked the sponsorship of an inexperienced would-be immigrant.
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"Schiefgehen wird, was schiefgehen kann" - das Murphygesetz
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