Abstract:
A large two-stroke turbocharged compression-ignited internal combustion crosshead engine with a plurality of cylinders has at least one pressure booster for each cylinder for boosting fuel pressure, two or more electronically controlled fuel valves for each cylinder with an inlet of the two or more electronically controlled fuel valves being connected to an outlet of the at least one pressure booster. An electronic control unit is connected to the at least one pressure booster and the two or more electronically controlled fuel valves. The electronic control unit is configured to determine a start time for a fuel injection event, activate the at least one pressure booster ahead of the determined start time and pen the two or more electronically controlled fuel valves at the determined start time.
Abstract:
Control systems and methods suitable for combination with power production systems and methods are provided herein. The control systems and methods may be used with, for example, closed power cycles as well as semi-closed power cycles. The combined control systems and methods and power production systems and methods can provide dynamic control of the power production systems and methods that can be carried out automatically based upon inputs received by controllers and outputs from the controllers to one or more components of the power production systems.
Abstract:
A supply pump includes a housing that has a tappet receiving chamber, which receives a plunger drive mechanism, and oil for lubricating respective lubricating portions of the plunger drive mechanism is temporarily retained in the tappet receiving chamber. In the housing, a communication hole opens in an inner peripheral wall surface of a tappet guide and guides the oil from a tappet upper side chamber into a tappet lower side chamber at the time of upwardly moving a tappet.
Abstract:
A fuel tank structure comprising a fuel tank; a canister; a first pipe that joins together a holding portion of the fuel tank and the canister; a first shut-off valve provided at the first pipe; a filler pipe; a second pipe that joins together the filler pipe and the canister; a second shut-off valve provided at the second pipe; a pressure sensor that detects the pressure inside the holding portion; a fuel pump that feeds the fuel to an engine; and a control unit. The control unit opens the first shut-off valve during refueling such that evaporative fuel is permitted to move from the holding portion to the canister, and closes the first shut-off valve after refueling. The control unit opens the second shut-off valve when the pressure inside the holding portion detected by the pressure sensor drops below a predetermined pressure which is lower than the atmospheric pressure.
Abstract:
In a fuel system of an internal combustion engine, a low-pressure delivery unit for the fuel, at least indirectly delivers fuel to at least one low-pressure injection device. The fuel system further provides a high-pressure delivery unit, which has a drive region and a delivery region and at least indirectly delivers fuel to at least one high-pressure injection device. According to the invention, the fuel is first delivered by the low-pressure delivery unit to the drive region of the high-pressure delivery unit and from there onward to the low-pressure injection device and/or to the delivery region of the high-pressure delivery unit.
Abstract:
A fuel supply structure of a saddle-ride type vehicle wherein a wrong operation of a hose locking member is more securely prevented during maintenance of the vehicle to enhance the maintainability without increasing the number of parts. Fuel supplied from a fuel tank to a throttle body is supplied via fuel supply parts through a flexible fuel hose. A cover member for covering the fuel supply parts is provided. The cover member is provided with a cover that covers a fuel hose locking member for locking the connection of the fuel hose and each fuel supply part. In addition, the cover covers the fuel hose locking member to disenable removing the fuel hose locking member.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a control chamber, the pressure of which determines the strokes or positions of a nozzle needle, and which is assigned to a force or pressure sensor in order to detect the progression of the control chamber pressure. Because the control chamber pressure significantly changes during the closing of the nozzle needle, the operating phases of the injector can be exactly determined from the sensor data and supplied to an engine controller.
Abstract:
A jet needle has a front face turned away from an injection opening. An injector assembly has a chamber within the body adjoining the front face, a throttle module arranged in the chamber having a fluid supply chamber being hydraulically coupled to the fluid inlet, a control space hydraulically coupled to the fluid supply chamber via an inlet throttle, and a valve chamber hydraulically coupled to the control space via an outlet throttle for accommodating a valve that is designed to lead fluid into a fluid return line arranged in a control module. There are precisely two sealing edges designed between the throttle module and the injector body and/or the control module by which additional hydraulic couplings of the fluid supply chamber to the control space and the valve chamber are cut off. A third sealing edge is designed between the injector body and the control module.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a fuel injector and, in particular, to a common-rail injector for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine with a multi-part injection valve element, which can be adjusted between an open position and a closed position. A first part and a second part of the injection valve element are coupled to one another via a hydraulic coupler, which is bounded radially by a first guide for the first part and by a second guide for the second part. According to the invention, at least some sections of the first and the second guide are surrounded at their outer radii by fuel under high pressure, and the pressure realized in the hydraulic coupler is lower than the pressure radially outside the guides.
Abstract:
A fuel injector includes an injector body that defines a fuel inlet, a drain outlet and a nozzle outlet, and has disposed therein a nozzle chamber, a needle control chamber and a valve chamber. The needle control chamber is fluidly connected to the drain outlet through a drain passage that includes the conical seat, is fluidly connected to the nozzle chamber through a Z orifice, and fluidly connected to the valve chamber through an A orifice. The nozzle chamber is fluidly connected to the valve chamber by a pressure passage that includes an F orifice that opens through a flat seat. A control valve member is trapped to move between contact with conical seat and contact with the flat seat. An electrical actuator is operable to push the control valve member away from the conical seat toward the flat seat when energized. A direct control needle valve has an opening hydraulic surface positioned in the nozzle chamber and a closing hydraulic surface positioned in the needle control chamber. The fuel injector may include first and second electronically controlled valves for independently injecting a gaseous fuel and a liquid fuel.