This paper presents a dual fuel system for diesel-natural gas operation for a truck diesel engine, and describes results of testing and analysis of the operating characteristics of the engine. The research results show that rates of fuel consumption and fuel efficiencies are increased with this engine design, and heat consumption decreased with increasing load on the engine. The heat consumption rates at medium-high loads are lower than at light loads. At full loads, the dual fuel engine exhibits heat release in which start combustion is reduced and the following combustion is rapid. The engine is tested with an electronically controlled method to meet the requirement of engine output torque.

Natural gas engines have widely been developed in the world because of the decrease of oil resources and strictness of the exhaust regulations. This paper introduces the main processes of designing diesel engines fuelled with natural gas and ignited by spark plugs. Secondly, it analyzes a number of problems considered during the process of designing. As an example, authors introduce the characteristic of a natural gas engine converted from a 4125 diesel engine and discuss the performances of the prototype engine according to results of the engine bed testing .The result is satisfying.

There is a worldwide interest in the research of various alternative fuels for automotive engines for the purpose of reduction of CO2 and toxically harmful exhaust emissions. Coal-bed gas, the main component of which is methane, has been considered an attractive alternative fuel for combustion engines due to its abundant resources, high hydrogen-carbon ratios and very low soot formation tendency. The composition of available coal-bed gas, however, can vary considerably, and this has made its combustion stability difficult to control in conventional spark ignition engines. To overcome the problem, a combustion system with a swirl chamber connected to the main combustion chamber through an orifice has been developed for the use of coal-bed gas in spark ignition engines, and the corresponding combustion process has been studied using a developed combustion model involving flame kernel formation and flame front propagation. The combustion model includes two sub-models with the first dealing with the calculation of turbulence intensity history, and the second modeling a jet flow through the orifice of the swirl chamber. Emissions of NOX, HC and CO have been predicted using the combustion model based on an extended Zeldovich mechanism, wall quenching and incomplete oxidation simulations. The effects of various components in coal-bed gas on the engine combustion process and emissions are also investigated. Validation of the combustion model has been performed through comparing simulation data with the experimental result obtained from a relevant single cylinder research engine, and a satisfactory agreement between them has been achieved in terms of combustion parameters and exhaust emissions.

This paper describes the development of a natural gas engine with a prechamber. The comparison between a conventional gas engine and the engine with the prechamber is given. The testing results show that the new combustion system is reliable and practical. The performance of the engine, compared to the conventional gas engine, is greatly improved due to stable ignition and quick flame propagation in the prechamber and a high burning rate and short burning period in main chamber. The analyses of the combustion processes and lean combustion potential in the engine are further discussed.

Spark ignition natural gas engines with prechamber, having high thermal efficiency and low exhaust emissions, have been developed due to energy resouces and air pollution problems in recent ten years. A lot of significant results on experiment have been given, but the reports on combustion model were few seen so far. This paper discribles a quasidimensional combustion model for the engines with prechamber. A simulation method for calculating turbulent intensity in cylinder and a submodel for jet orifices between two chambers are put forword. It showed by testing that calculated data showed good general agreement with the correspanding experimental values.