A computational study of a directinjection (DI) engine intake system using KIVA-3V was conducted. The engine considered had two intake ports designed to generate a swirling motion of the intake charge in the cylinder. To investigate the effect of adding shrouds to the intake valves on swirl, two sets of intake valves were considered; the first set consisted of conventional valves, and the secon...

Inexpensive digital valves are implemented to accurately control the position of a pneumatic cylinder using pulse width modulation (PWM) technique. A fuzzy PI controller is designed and implemented to overcome the nonlinearity inherited in the system due to air compressibility, dry friction and the nature of the digital valves. The actuator under control is a vertical double-acting single-rod p...

According to the auditory principle of fish’s lateral line organ, a novel microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) bionic vector hydrophone used for obtaining vector information of underwater sound field is introduced in this paper. It is desirable that the application of MEMS-based piezoresistive effect and bionics structure may improve the low-frequency sensitivity of the vector hydrophone as we...

The design of a pneumatic pulse-width modulated pressure control via trajectory optimized fast-switching electromagnetic valves is presented. Two fast-switching valves are used in a half bridge configuration for pressure control in a pneumatic volume. The valves are operated using a feedforward control, which guarantees soft landing and time optimality. The control performance and achievable no...

In this work, an unsteady state analysis of the compression cycle of a small hermetic reciprocating compressor for domestic refrigeration was carried out. The mass and energy balances were applied to the refrigerant inside the cylinder in order to determine the mass and temperature behaviour through the compression process. A specific onedimensional model of the valves was developed to calculat...

Hybrid inline fiber interferometers gained attention recently especially in the building control and detection fields due to their hybrid multi-path interferences, multi-parameter measurements, high sensitivity, precision. This work used etched multimode (MMF) introduce a novel medical gas pipeline leakage detector based on Fabry-Perot/Mach-Zehnder interferometer (FP-MZI). The FP-MZI of this co...

Abstract: The present paper introduces a control oriented model based on air and burned gas flows for automotive engines with variable valves. Moreover, a predictive controller is proposed by using the obtained model. For the engines with variable valves, the intake valve lift enables the quick torque response; on the other hand, the large valves’ overlap may cause a misfiring of combustion bec...

Abstract The current standard methods of determining the mechanical losses ICE by motoring do not correspond to low pressures in cylinders real engine operation. new tried and tested method passive resistances with high working is based on blowing doses compressed air into around BDC special self-acting valves. When method, same course load crank mechanism, including piston group, achieved duri...