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DIESEL EGR COOLER FOULING
University of Michigan: John Hoard
Mehdi Abarham Ashwin Salvi
Ford Motor Company:
Dan Styles
Powertrain Strategies for the 21st Century: Designing Global Powertrains Wednesday, July 25, 2012
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• Modern diesels use cooled EGR – Reduced engine out NOx emissions – May reduce particulate emissions
• Cooled surfaces foul – Soot - thermophoresis – HC, water, acids – condensation
• Processes have been modeled – Abarham et.al. • Uncertainties remain
– Removal mechanisms – In-situ morphology – Thermal properties of layers
• So, we built a visualization rig – Describe rig and show example test
Background
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Deposit Characteristics
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Thermophoresis is the Dominant Mechanism
• Scaling analysis of deposition mechanisms for a selected common boundary condition
From Abarham PhD thesis
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Scaling Analysis of Acting Forces
• Scaling analysis of forces acting on an attached particle to wall
– Drag
– Lift
– Weight
– Van der Waals
– Updraft force
• Van der Waals is strong enough to keep the particles attached
• It seems unlikely that particles are re-entrained by drag force or turbulent bursts at common EGR flow rates
From Abarham PhD thesis
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Deposited soot mass gain model results vs. experimental measurements
3 hours exposure time
Effectiveness drop model results vs. experimental measurements
3 hours exposure time
• Better estimation on mass deposited by the axi-symmetric model
• Overall, closer estimation of heat transfer reduction by the axi-symmetric model
CFD Models-Experiments Comparisons
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Tube effectiveness comparison longer time exposure
Cooler effectiveness comparison long time exposure
Model Results for Longer Term Exposures
Exhaust Filtered Exhaust
• For longer term experiments a soot removal mechanism is required to achieve correlation
• However, carefully constructed experiments to quantify the removal experiment did not yield the expected results. Further work required….
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EGR Cooler Visualization Test Rig
John Hoard, Mehdi Abarham, Tejas Chafekar Dennis Assanis, Dan Styles, “A Visualization Test Setup for Investigation of Water-Deposit Interaction in a Surrogate Rectangular Cooler Exposed to Diesel Exhaust Flow “, SAE paper 2012-01-0364, April 2012
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Test Stand Photo
Exhaust In
Air In
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Imaging Ability
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Surface Image During Deposition
Initial clean After two hours
50X magnification – brightness and contrast adjusted Note large particles
Large Particles
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Particle Sampling
• Normal diesel nanoparticles follow flows – Not likely to impact inertially – Thus, easy to sample
• Large particles (tens of microns) – 100X diameter, 10,000X area, 1,000,000X mass! – Separate inertially – Ideally need isokinetic sample – We used simple sample – Likely to miss many particles
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Magnified Image
200x magnification, imaging area 1.72mm by 1.29 mm.
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Particle Number versus Threshold T = 0.26
T = 0.29
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Engine-Out Sample
Max = 90 particles
Multiple images processed and averaged
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Typical Published Particle Size Distribution
Harris, S.J., Maricq, M.M., “The Role of Fragmentation in Defining the Signature Size Distribution of Diesel Soot”, J. Aerosol Science 33: 935-942, 2002.
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Coolant 9°C, Start Air then Exhaust
Each second in the movie is 4 minutes in real time.
March 22 test
Actual size 6.88x5.16mm 50X magnification
Flow
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Conclusions • EGR Cooling fouling is a surprisingly rich research area • Soot deposits due to thermophoresis - ~90% of deposit mass • Heavy HC (C12+) condense • Acidic water condenses • Removal mechanism is required but not understood • Heat transfer properties of deposits in-situ not known • Visualization rig to investigate
– Large particles – Water condensation removal – Experiments continue
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Acknowledgments
• This work was done at the University of Michigan’s Walter E. Lay Automotive Laboratory under sponsorship of Ford Motor Company Research and Advanced Engineering.
• Thanks to Ashwin Salvi for help in running the engine and test cell.
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Questions?
Diesel EGR Cooler FoulingSlide Number 2Slide Number 3Thermophoresis is the Dominant MechanismScaling Analysis of Acting ForcesSlide Number 6Slide Number 7EGR Cooler Visualization Test RigTest Stand PhotoImaging Ability�Surface Image During DepositionParticle SamplingMagnified ImageParticle Number versus ThresholdEngine-Out SampleTypical Published Particle Size DistributionCoolant 9°C, Start Air then ExhaustConclusionsAcknowledgmentsQuestions?