ON THE KNOCKING CHARACTERISTICS OF AIR-COLLED ENGINES.

Abstract

The temperature level of the walls of the combustion chamber of the engine (within the limits of change of from 135 to 260 C) shows substantial influence on its tendency to knock. With a change in the average temperature of 10, the required octane number of the fuel for the engine MeM3-966 goes up on the average by one point on the octane scale. Turbulation of the charge by means of setting in the combustion chamber of displacers is accompanied by a lowering of the tendency of the engine to knocking. The setting in of a displacer with the area of 24% in the combustion chamber leads to a lowering of the required octane number of the fuel (with t sub head.average= 200 C) by 3.5 points, while increase of the area of the displacer to 36% is accompanied by further lowering of the requirements for the octane number of the fuel by 1.5 points. The means of lessening the tendency to knock in the engine consisting in the lowering of its temperature level, and also in the reducing of the power by means of setting in delay angles of advance of ignition, prove to be more effective with the presence in the combustion chamber of displacers. The change in the degree of compression from 6.5 (value set up for the series engine MeMe-966) to 8 is accompanied by a rise in the required octane number of the fuel by 10 points. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 26, 1966
Accession Number
AD0636677

Entities

People

  • E. S. Polukhin
  • I. V. Markova

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chambers
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Chambers
  • Combustion Products
  • Combustors
  • Compression
  • Engines
  • Exothermic Reactions
  • Heat Engines
  • Ignition
  • Knocking

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Petroleum Engineering