Condition monitoring and diagnosis of injector faults in a diesel engine using in-cylinder pressure and acoustic emission techniques
Lin, Tian Ran, Tan, Andy C. C., & Mathew, Joseph (2011) Condition monitoring and diagnosis of injector faults in a diesel engine using in-cylinder pressure and acoustic emission techniques. In Law, S.S., Cheng, Li, Xia, Yong, & Su, Zhongqing (Eds.) Dyanmics for Sustainable Engineering, The HongKong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, pp. 454-463.
Failing injectors are one of the most common faults in diesel engines. The severity of these faults could have serious effects on diesel engine operations such as engine misfire, knocking, insufficient power output or even cause a complete engine breakdown. It is thus essential to prevent such faults from occurring by monitoring the condition of these injectors. In this paper, the authors present the results of an experimental investigation on identifying the signal characteristics of a simulated incipient injector fault in a diesel engine using both in-cylinder pressure and acoustic emission (AE) techniques. A time waveform event driven synchronous averaging technique was used to minimize or eliminate the effect of engine speed variation and amplitude fluctuation. It was found that AE is an effective method to detect the simulated injector fault in both time (crank angle) and frequency (order) domains. It was also shown that the time domain in-cylinder pressure signal is a poor indicator for condition monitoring and diagnosis of the simulated injector fault due to the small effect of the simulated fault on the engine combustion process. Nevertheless, good correlations between the simulated injector fault and the lower order components of the enveloped in-cylinder pressure spectrum were found at various engine loading conditions.
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|Item Type:||Conference Paper|
|Keywords:||Condition monitoring, machine fault diagnosis, diesel engine, injector fault, acoustic emission, pressure analysis, envelope analysis, order analysis|
|Subjects:||Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > ENGINEERING (090000) > AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING (090200)
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > ENGINEERING (090000) > MARITIME ENGINEERING (091100)
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > ENGINEERING (090000) > MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (091300)
|Divisions:||Current > Research Centres > CRC Integrated Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM)
Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering
Past > Schools > School of Engineering Systems
|Copyright Owner:||Copyright 2011 Department of Civil and Structural Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering, The HongKong Polytechnic University|
|Copyright Statement:||No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system or translated into any language, in any form or by any means without written authorization from The HongKong Polytechnic University.|
|Deposited On:||13 Dec 2011 02:49|
|Last Modified:||13 Dec 2011 05:05|
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