Transient Load-Speed Control in Multi-Cylinder Recompression HCCI Engines
dc.contributor.author | Jade, Shyam Dilip | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-02T18:14:26Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-02T18:14:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.date.submitted | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/107072 | |
dc.description.abstract | Strict proposed fuel economy and emissions standards for automotive internal combustion engines have motivated the study of advanced low-temperature combustion modes that promise higher combustion efficiencies with low engine-out emissions. This work presents modeling and control results for one such combustion mode -- recompression homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion. Regulating desired charge properties in recompression HCCI involves the retention of a large amount of the residual charge between engine cycles, thus introducing significant inter-cycle feedback in the system. This work considers a baseline controller from literature, and proposes two improved model-based control strategies. The controllers use exhaust valve timing and fuel injection timings to track combustion phasings during transitions in the HCCI region of the multi-cylinder engine load-speed operating map. Fast and stable control of these transitions is demonstrated, which maximizes the length of stay in the HCCI region, and hence the efficiency benefit of advanced combustion. The baseline controller, which is a feedback-feedforward controller adapted from literature, is tuned using a low-order, discrete-time, control-oriented model that describes the stable, high efficiency HCCI region. The first improved control strategy augments the baseline controller with a reference or fuel governor that modifies transient fuel mass commands during large load transitions, when the possibility of future actuator constraint violations exists. This approach is shown in experiments to improve the combustion phasing and load responses, as well as prevent engine misfires. Issues with high cyclic variability during late phasing and low load conditions, and their impact on transient performance, are discussed. These issues are physically explained through recompression heat release caused due to unburned and recycled fuel. The control-oriented model is augmented with recompression heat release to predict the onset of the oscillatory, high variability region. The second improved control strategy uses this physical understanding to improve combustion phasing tracking performance. Transitions tested on a multicylinder HCCI engine include load transitions at fixed engine speeds, engine speed ramps at fixed load, simultaneous load and speed transitions, and select FTP75 drive-cycle transitions with high load slew rates. This improved model-based control strategy is proposed as a solution for the HCCI transient control problem. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition | en_US |
dc.subject | Cyclic Variability | en_US |
dc.subject | Reference Governor | en_US |
dc.subject | Low Temperature Combustion | en_US |
dc.subject | Transient Combustion Phasing Control | en_US |
dc.title | Transient Load-Speed Control in Multi-Cylinder Recompression HCCI Engines | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreename | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Mechanical Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantor | University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Hellstrom, Erik | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Stefanopoulou, Anna G. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Kolmanovsky, Ilya Vladimir | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Sick, Volker | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Mechanical Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Transportation | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/107072/1/sjade_1.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's) |
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