ELECTROSTATIC TREATMENT DEVICE FOR THE FUEL CONSUMPTION REDUC-TION OF A MOBILE POWER PLANT
In our days problems of efficient use of resources and enhancing ecological safety are becoming more and more important. In great degree this relates to mobile power plant, where it is important to decrease fuel consumption while preserving energy parameters of power plant units based on internal combustion engines (ICE). This is quite possible if we establish correspondence of fuel and air mixture combustion timing to valve timing in ICE displacement. Combustion time of fuel-air mixture when power plant are operated in different conditions due to crankshaft rpm changes in no load – max. load range. Well known methods to control com-bustion completeness, such as initial adjustment of fuel-air mixture timing angle, crankshaft cam profile selection, composition of fuel-air mixture, etc. do not provide for complete fuel-air mixture combustion, resulting in increased fuel consumption and increased exhaust of harmful substances to the environment. Environmental load may be lowered by fuel-air mixture postcombustion in active catalyst zone. But, as this process takes place outside of work cycle, using catalytic neutralizers also increases fuel consumption. Therefore, the problem of providing correspondence of fuel and air mixture combustion timing to work cycle timing is still unresolved. Results of research have demonstrated that it may be resolved by means of electrostatic treatment of fuel and air mixture. In this case, as, for example, for mobile power plant model DPG1101i engine, increasing fuel saving up to 10%.