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Troels Dyhr Pedersen.indd - Solid Mechanics

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dB higher than the 8 cylindrical chambers. This indicates that the acoustic modes are not suppressed very<br />

efficiently with the 7 hemispherical chambers.<br />

Figure 13 shows the SPL as a function of combustion phasing. In general, the acoustic SPL decreases slightly as<br />

combustion phasing is delayed. The piston crown which is least successful in reducing noise is the ring shaped<br />

chamber, which increases the SPL considerably above that of the flat piston. The crown with four side<br />

chambers also increases the noise level higher than the flat piston. The crown with seven hemispherical<br />

chambers reduces the noise level with 3-6 dB. The piston with eight side chambers provides a similar reduction.<br />

The best results are obtained with the diesel piston and the eight cylindrical chambers. These two are equally<br />

silent in operation, as they provide a reduction of 10-15 dB over the flat piston.<br />

IMEP<br />

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Acoustic SPL [dB]<br />

103<br />

97<br />

91<br />

85<br />

79<br />

73<br />

Ring shaped chamber Flat chamber<br />

4 side chambers 8 side chambers<br />

7 hemispherical chambers 8 cylindrical chambers<br />

Diesel bowl chamber<br />

-9 -6 -3 0 3 6 9<br />

Combustion phasing [CAD]<br />

Figure 13: Acoustic SPL as function of combustion phasing<br />

In figure 14 the IMEP is plotted against the combustion phasing. The spread in combustion phasing shows the<br />

effect of the inlet cooling, as the leftmost point in each series is obtained at +15 °C and the rightmost at -10 °C.<br />

The inlet cooling was however insufficient to reach the best possible combustion phasing which would be<br />

around 10 CAD ATDC.<br />

IMEP [kPa]<br />

550<br />

500<br />

450<br />

400<br />

350<br />

300<br />

Ring shaped chamber Flat chamber<br />

4 side chambers 8 side chambers<br />

7 hemispherical chambers 8 cylindrical chambers<br />

Diesel bowl chamber<br />

-9 -6 -3 0 3 6 9<br />

Combustion phasing [CAD]<br />

Figure 14: IMEP plotted against combustion phasing

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