Diesel Vaporization Team

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• Diesel Vaporization Team
• Brad Miller, Jay Penick, and Elliott Tibor
• Advisor Dr. Puri
• The goal of this project is to investigate the
  feasibility and benefits of totally vaporizing
  diesel fuel prior to the ignition stage in
  combustion engines. Diesel fuel is more efficient
  than gas and diesel engines are more durable, but
  the interest in diesel powered cars has decreased
  in the United States mostly because of strict
  emission standards. Understanding diesel
  vaporization could lead to technologies which
  will significantly decrease the production of
  environmentally harmful noxious gases and
  increase the energy output of the fuel.

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Velocity and path of fuel in an engine cylinder

• Project Summary Our project involves the
  modeling and testing of diesel fuel injection.
• We will create an analytical ANSYS model of the
  injection process.
• We will test this model by creating an
  experimental apparatus which uses a MATLAB code
  to determine the homogeneity of fuel vapor in a
  cylinder.
• This data will be compared with existing
  literature on diesel fuel efficiency and analyzed
  for feasibility.
• Future work could include design of a
  commercial prevaporization chamber to be easily
  retrofitted for diesel engines.

snowed in team photo pending