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Numerical and Experimental Modeling of Producer Gas Carburettor

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Abstract

Currently there has been no Producer gas carburettors sold commercially. Some of the concepts evolved have not been optimized and are not standardized as well. In this view, development of an optimized carburettor for producer gas application addressing the low energy density of the delivered mixture is need of the time. Design of a carburettor for producer gas application with special reference for reduced loss of pressure is taken up to generate the optimal fuel–air mixture to meet different load conditions of the engine as well as for varying operating conditions of producer gas reactor. A specially designed producer gas carburettor is comprehensively analyzed for its mixing performance and response with a CFD modeling. The model is made up of a mixing chamber that has the essential orifices for air and fuel (producer gas) inlets to generate stable stoichiometric mixture nearer to ambient conditions. The CFD simulations are carried out followed with experimental studies under engine simulation conditions using pressure controlling system to validate the analysis. The results show a consistency in the experimental data and the modeling has provided a good insight into the flow details and has paved way in optimization of geometrical design to get a good mixing efficiency. 1. Introduction In the current state of technological advances, it is recognized that Biomass is one of the viable and sustainable renewable resources and new technologies emerging out of biomass based gasification systems find a significant role in bridging the energy crisis. The advanced biomass gasification systems are known to generate producer gas as the combustible fuel that is clean enough to be used in Direct Injection gas engines. However in order to adapt standard gas engines few of its components need modifications before they are used in the biomass power plants. Since this area is an emerging one and the technology has not been disseminated to the scale of driving market, it is essential that specialized components that require modification need be studied. Carburetor is one of the important components in such Category and it is identified that additional research work is to be carried out in establishing a design procedure for this application. [3]. the work presented here is an effort in this regard. Air/fuel ratio characteristic exert a large influence on exhaust emission and fuel economy in Internal Combustion engine[5]. With increasing demand for high fuel efficiency and low emission, the need to supply the engine cylinders with a well defined mixture under all circumstances has become more essential for better engine performance. Carburettors are in general defined as devices where a flow induced pressure drop forces a fuel flow into the air stream [1]. An ideal carburettor would provide a mixture of appropriate air-fuel (A/F) ratio to the engine over its entire range of operation from no load to full load condition. To ensure proper performance, Carburettors should be reproducible and have unequivocal adjustment procedures. CFD software used for cold flow analysis is CFX 10.The k-ε turbulence model is most commonly used and is considered to be the best model between computational time and precision [2]. The geometric model is built using Ansys workbench.