Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review
    Vol. 56 No. 2 (2019)   M-FET
    Technical Papers

    Proposal of Concept for Reducing Cycle-to-cycle Combustion Variations through Improvement of Pre-chamber Configuration in Gas Engines

    TOMOHIRO KOGA
    DAISUKE TAKEMOTO
    YUSUKE IMAMORI
    AKIHIRO YUKI
    HIROYUKI ENDO
    YUTA FURUKAWA

    To meet the needs for high efficiency and high power output in the gas engine market, it is important to reduce cycle-to-cycle combustion variations. In this paper, a combustion variation reduction concept derived through simulation technology (LES: Large-Eddy Simulation) that is more advanced than the conventional analysis method is described. By using LES technology, we were able to analyze the phenomenon of cycle-to-cycle combustion variations, which was difficult to understand using the conventional method. This made it possible to conduct factor analysis/concept design and contributed to the development of combustion variation reduction technology.