316 results about "Equivalence ratio" patented technology

A premixed charge compression ignition engine, and a control system, is provided which effectively initiates combustion by compression ignition and maintains stable combustion while achieving extremely low nitrous oxide emissions, good overall efficiency and acceptable combustion noise and cylinder pressures. The present engine and control system effectively controls the combustion history, that is, the time at which combustion occurs, the rate of combustion, the duration of combustion and/or the completeness of combustion, by controlling the operation of certain control variables providing temperature control, pressure control, control of the mixture's autoignition properties and equivalence ratio control. The combustion control system provides active feedback control of the combustion event and includes a sensor, e.g. pressure sensor, for detecting an engine operating condition indicative of the combustion history, e.g. the start of combustion, and generating an associated engine operating condition signal. A processor receives the signal and generates control signals based on the engine operating condition signal for controlling various engine components to control the temperature, pressure, equivalence ratio and/or autoignition properties so as to variably control the combustion history of future combustion events to achieve stable, low emission combustion in each cylinder and combustion balancing between the cylinders.

Burner firing method and device are presented where an oxidizing oxygen-fuel burner is fired at an angle to the reducing air-fuel burner flame to reduce overall NOx emissions from high temperature furnaces. The oxidizing oxy-fuel burner stoichiometric equivalence ratio (oxygen/fuel) is maintained in the range of about 1.5 to about 12.5. The reducing air-fuel burner is fired at an equivalence ratio of 0.6 to 1.00 to reduce the availability of oxygen in the flame and reducing NOx emissions. The oxidizing flame from the oxy-fuel burner is oriented such that the oxidizing flame gas stream intersects the reducing air-fuel flame gas stream at or near the tail section of the air-fuel flame. The inventive methods improve furnace temperature control and thermal efficiency by eliminating some nitrogen and provide an effective burnout of CO and other hydrocarbons using the higher mixing ability of the oxidizing flame combustion products. The simultaneous air-fuel and oxy-fuel burner firing can reduce NOx emissions anywhere from 30% to 70% depending on the air-fuel burner stoichiometric ratio.

A counter-flow system for use in a turbine for selecting various mixtures of fluids for use with the system. The system may be used for a combustor for a gas powered turbine which employs a heat exchanger to combust a fuel without the emission of undesired chemical species. A gas powered turbine requires expanding gases to power the turbine blades. Fuel is combusted to produce the required gases. An oxidizer is introduced into the counter-flow system in a first direction before a first portion of fuel is introduced into the oxidizer. The fuel and oxidizer mixture is then flowed through a second pathway wherein the fuel and oxidizer mixture obtains a selected amount of thermal energy. Moreover, in a second pathway an equivalence ratio of the fuel and oxidizer mixture may be altered from the original fuel and oxidizer mixture.

A hydrogen fueled powerplant including an internal combustion engine that drives a motor-generator, and has a two-stage turbocharger, for an aircraft. A control system controls the operation of the motor-generator to maintain the engine at a speed selected based on controlling the engine equivalence ratio. The control system controls an afterburner, an intercooler and an aftercooler to maximize powerplant efficiency. The afterburner also adds power to the turbochargers during high-altitude restarts. The turbochargers also include motor-generators that extract excess power from the exhaust.

A compression ignition engine uses two or more fuel charges having two or more reactivities to control the timing and duration of combustion. In a preferred implementation, a lower-reactivity fuel charge is injected or otherwise introduced into the combustion chamber, preferably sufficiently early that it becomes at least substantially homogeneously dispersed within the chamber before a subsequent injection is made. One or more subsequent injections of higher-reactivity fuel charges are then made, and these preferably distribute the higher-reactivity matter within the lower-reactivity chamber space such that combustion begins in the higher-reactivity regions, and with the lower-reactivity regions following thereafter. By appropriately choosing the reactivities of the charges, their relative amounts, and their timing, combustion can be tailored to achieve optimal power output (and thus fuel efficiency), at controlled temperatures (and thus controlled NOx), and with controlled equivalence ratios (and thus controlled soot).

The periodic equivalence ratio modulation (PERM) method and apparatus significantly reduces and/or eliminates unstable conditions within a combustion chamber. The method involves modulating the equivalence ratio for the combustion device, such that the combustion device periodically operates outside of an identified unstable oscillation region. The equivalence ratio is modulated between preselected reference points, according to the shape of the oscillation region and operating parameters of the system. Preferably, the equivalence ratio is modulated from a first stable condition to a second stable condition, and, alternatively, the equivalence ratio is modulated from a stable condition to an unstable condition. The method is further applicable to multi-nozzle combustor designs, whereby individual nozzles are alternately modulated from stable to unstable conditions. Periodic equivalence ratio modulation (PERM) is accomplished by active control involving periodic, low frequency fuel modulation, whereby low frequency fuel pulses are injected into the main fuel delivery. Importantly, the fuel pulses are injected at a rate so as not to affect the desired time-average equivalence ratio for the combustion device.

A hydrogen enhanced engine system using high compression ratio is optimized to minimize NOx emissions, exhaust aftertreatment catalyst requirements, hydrogen requirements, engine efficiency and cost. In one mode of operation the engine is operated very lean (equivalence ratio φ=0.4 to 0.7) at lower levels of power. Very lean operation reduces NOx to very low levels. A control system is used to increase equivalence ratio at increased torque or power requirements while avoiding the knock that would be produced by high compression ratio operation. The increased equivalence ratio reduces the amount of hydrogen required to extend the lean limit in order to avoid misfire and increases torque and power. The engine may be naturally aspirated, turbocharged, or supercharged.

In one embodiment, a system includes at least one sensor configured to communicate a signal representative of a gas turbine operations. The system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. The system additionally includes a stoichiometric model configured to receive one or more inputs representative of the gas turbine operations and a measured equivalence ratio, wherein the controller is configured to transform the signal into the one or more inputs and to use the stoichiometric model to derive an actuation signal based on a target equivalence ratio.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a clear coating composition which inhibits a corrosion reaction by containing a rust preventive agent in a clear layer on a silver-plating layer and preventing a corrosive substance such as chlorine ion from contacting with the surface of the silver-plating layer, and develops beautiful silver-plating design for a long time, and an inmold decoration product comprising a silver-plating layer. A clear coating composition used in forming a multilayer coating film comprising a silver-plating layer, said multilayer coating film being obtainable by forming a base coating film layer, a silver-plating layer and a clear coating film layer in succession on a plastic substrate, wherein said clear coating composition is a two-package polyurethane coating composition comprising a main material containing acrylic polyol and a curing agent containing a polyisocyanate compound, the equivalence ratio of an NCO group in said polyisocyanate compound to an OH group in said acrylic polyol (NCO/OH) ranges from 0.8/1 to 1.2/1, and the clear coating composition contains a rust preventive agent in the proportions of 1.0 to 13.0 parts (on a basis of solids weight) with respect to 100 parts by weight of the total of the acrylic polyol and the rust preventive agent.

A device and method for improving the performance of a pulse detonation engine. The device includes at least one of an exhaust structure and an ejector. The exhaust structure can be configured as a straight, converging or diverging nozzle device, and connected to the engine to control the flow of a primary fluid produced during a detonation reaction. The ejector is fluidly coupled to the engine, using the movement of the primary fluid to promote entrainment of a secondary fluid that can be mixed with the primary fluid. The secondary fluid can be used to increase the mass flow of the primary fluid to increase thrust, as well as be used to cool engine components. Device positioning, sizing, shaping and integration with other engine operating parameters, such as fill fraction, choice of fuel and equivalence ratio, can be used to improve engine performance. In addition to thrust augmentation and enhanced cooling, the disclosed device can be used for engine noise reduction.

An engine exhaust gas purifier includes: an injection controller allowing a fuel injection valve to inject fuel near the top dead center on each compression stroke; an EGR amount controller for controlling the amount of exhaust gas recirculated into a combustion chamber; an excess air ratio controller for controlling the excess air ratio so that the local equivalence ratio in a late combustion stage is lower than the equivalence ratio at which soot is produced; and an intake air temperature controller for controlling the temperature of intake air after being mixed with exhaust gas. The intake air temperature controller controls the temperature of intake air within a temperature range lower than an upper temperature limit below which a predetermined ignition delay time can be secured and higher than a lower temperature limit above which the production of HC and CO can be avoided.

The invention discloses a low-emission reverse flow combustor adopting the radial swirl injection and fuel oil grading schemes. The low-emission reverse flow combustor adopting the radial swirl injection and fuel oil grading schemes is that air flows from a head part of a radial grading three-grade swirler into a flame tube, and while fuel oil flows through an on-duty-grade oil channel and a main-combustion-grade oil channel to reach the combustor, so as to form an on-duty area and a main combustion area in the head part of the combustor; diffusive combustion occurs in the on-duty area, and while pre-mixing combustion is caused in the main combustion area; and a high-temperature product produced by the combustion flows to the downstream, turns in 180 degrees at an exhaust elbow and then is discharged from the combustor. The low-emission reverse flow combustor has the advantages that a central on-duty-grade part works when the combustor is under ignition, starting, slow running and other low load states, thus the combustion efficiency is improved, and the emission of un-combusted materials CO and UHC is decreased; in case of relatively large load above slow running load, the main-combustion-grade oil channel and the on-duty-grade oil channel work together, the on-duty-stage oil channel provides a stable ignition source to the main-combustion-grade oil channel so as to expand the boundary of the combustor; the main combustion area is designed to perform lean-oil combustion under equivalence ratio of 0.6 to 0.65, and the reaction temperature is far below the adiabatic flame temperature, and thus the produced and emitted nitric oxide (NOX) are decreased; and the multi-grade swirl injection and fuel oil grading schemes are applied to the combustor of an aircraft engine or a ground gas turbine.

The invention relates to a lean oil direct injection and mixing low-pollution combustion chamber. The lean oil direct injection and mixing low-pollution combustion chamber is composed of a diffuser, acombustion chamber outer case, a combustion chamber inner case, a combustion chamber head, a flame tube outer wall and a flame tube inner wall, wherein combustion air all enters a flame tube from thecombustion chamber head; the combustion chamber head is divided into an on-duty grade and a main combustion grade through a grading and partitioning combustion strategy; the on-duty grade and the main combustion grade both adopt a direct injection and mixing combustion method, the phenomena of spontaneous combustion and tempering are effectively avoided, and the risk of occurrence of oscillationcombustion is lowered; the lean oil direct injection and mixing low-pollution combustion chamber only works in an on-duty grade mode under an idling rating state, the designed partial equivalence ratio is higher, and the work stability of the combustion chamber is guaranteed; and with the increase of the work state of the combustion chamber, the main combustion grade is opened gradually, the maincombustion grade and the on-duty grade work simultaneously under a large state, the designed combustion area average equivalence ratio is lower, the average temperature of the combustion area is effectively lowered, and therefore the generation quantity of pollutants is lowered.

The invention discloses a transparent polyurethane coating composite which is composed of a component A and a component B, wherein the component A is polyester polyol, and the component B is polyisocyanate. The transparent polyurethane coating composite is characterized in that polyester polyol comprises aliphatic and cycloaliphatic diacids with a carbon number of C6-C10; polyester polyol is prepared through carrying out condensation polymerization on one or more of aliphatic and cycloaliphatic dihydric alcohols with a carbon number of C2-C7 and one or more of aliphatic polyatomic alcohols with a carbon number of C2-C7, the molecular weight range of the polyester polyol is 500-5000, and the MWD (molecular weight distribution) of the polyester polyol is 1.1-2.1; the component B is polyisocyanate; and the equivalence ratio of reactive groups of polyisocyanate and polyester polyol is (1.1:1)-(2.5:1). The transparent polyurethane coating composite prepared by the method disclosed by the invention is good in impact property and weather resistance, the light transmittance is greater than or equal to 85.0%, and the impact strength is greater than or equal to 70%, and after the transparent polyurethane coating composite is subjected to QUV ultraviolet accelerated aging for a week, the appearance and light transmittance of a coating are not changed. The coating composite prepared by the method disclosed by the invention can be applied to the fields with higher requirements on the coating performance.

A real-time monitoring of an equivalence ratio of a gas-fuel mixture of a gas turbine engine is provided. The system includes multiple optical probes arranged on a plurality of fuel nozzles for transmitting laser beams directly through a gas-fuel mixture or indirectly by reflecting the laser beams from a surface of a centerbody or burner tube of the fuel nozzle. The system also includes one or more detectors to measure the transmitted laser beams from the multiple optical probes. Further, the system includes a data acquisition subsystem for acquiring and processing signals from the one or more detectors to determine the equivalence ratio of the gas-fuel mixture of the nozzle.

A system includes a gas turbine engine configured to combust an oxidant and a fuel to generate an exhaust gas, a catalyst bed configured to treat a portion of the exhaust gas from the gas turbine engine to generate a treated exhaust gas, a differential temperature monitor configured to monitor a differential temperature between a first temperature of the portion of exhaust gas upstream of the catalyst bed and a second temperature of the treated exhaust gas downstream of the catalyst bed, and an oxidant-to-fuel ratio system configured to adjust a parameter to maintain an efficacy of the catalyst bed based at least in part on the differential temperature in order to maintain a target equivalence ratio.

The invention relates to a bi-component waterborne polyurethane coating composition. The bi-component waterborne polyurethane coating composition comprises a component (a) and a component (b), wherein the component (a) comprises one or more polyol waterborne dispersions or waterborne emulsion, the content of hydroxy in the polyol is 0.5-5.5 wt.% based on the situation that the weight of the polyol is weighted by 100 wt.%, and the solid content of the polyol waterborne dispersion or the waterborne emulsion is 10-70 wt.% based on the situation that the total weight of the polyol waterborne dispersion or the waterborne emulsion is weighted by 100 wt.%; the component (b) comprises one or more hydrophilic modified isophorone diisocyanate polymers or prepolymers; due to the contents of the component (a) and the component (b), the equivalence ratio of an NCO group to the hydroxy in the bi-component waterborne polyurethane coating composition is 0.2:1 to 5:1. The bi-component waterborne polyurethane coating composition has high temperature yellowing resistance, and the chromatism value of a coating film prepared from the coating composition is less than 3.0 after the coating film is baked at the temperature of 150 DEG C for 1 day.

The present invention provides a thermosetting resin composition superior with respect to all characteristics of dielectric characteristics, heat resistance, moisture resistance, electrolytic corrosion resistance, adhesiveness with a copper foil, chemical resistance and flame retardancy using a halogen-free flame retardant, its use, and for example, a prepreg, laminated board and printed wiring board.

The present invention relates to: (1) a resin thermosetting resin composition comprising: (A) a phenol-modified cyanate ester oligomer obtained by reacting a cyanate compound (a) containing two or more cyanato groups in a single molecule, and (b) a phenol compound represented by the formula (I) and/or formula (II), such that a blending equivalence ratio of hydroxyl group (b)/cyanato group (a) is within a range of 0.01 to 0.3, and the monomer conversation rate of cyanate compound (a) containing two or more cyanato groups in a single molecule is 20 to 70%, (B) an epoxy resin containing two or more epoxy groups in a single molecule, and (C) at least one member selected from a metal salt of a di-substituted phosphinic acid and a phosphazene compound as a flame retardant; (2) a thermosetting resin composition comprising: components (A), (B), (C), (D) a silicone polymer containing at least one member of siloxane unit selected from a tri-functional siloxane unit represented by the formula: RSiO_3/2 (wherein, R represents an organic group, and the R groups in the silicone polymer may be mutually the same or different) and a tetra-functional siloxane unit represented by the formula: SiO_4/2, having a degree of polymerization of 7,000 or less, and having one or more functional groups on its terminals that react with hydroxyl groups, and (E) an organic filler; and, a prepreg obtained by using the same, and a metal-clad laminated board and printed wiring board obtained by using the same.

The invention discloses a biomass gasification method. The method requires the steps of drying pyrolysis, combustion deoxidization and gas reforming in the gasification process to be relatively separated and continuously carried out in the same gasification furnace, simultaneously continuously gasification agent is introduced at three points in the whole gasification process and finally the cleanhigh quality product gas is obtained. In the invention, the equivalence ratio of the total gasification agent is 0.2-0.35, and the mass ratio of a first gasification agent, a second gasification agent and a third gasification agent is (0-0.8):(2-3.5):(0.7-1.5). The method controls the temperature and the reaction depth of each subarea in the furnace by controlling the mutual ratio of the biomass materials, the first gasification agent, the second gasification agent and the third gasification agent so as to control the quality of the final product gas. The obtained product gas can be used as the energy or the chemical engineering synthesis raw material gas. The method can generate clean product gas from the biomass, cannot generate secondary pollution and has high carbon conversion rate and simple implementation method.