发明名称 |
METHODS FOR DETERMINING FUEL BULK MODULUS IN A HIGH-PRESSURE PUMP |
摘要 |
Methods are provided for finding the bulk modulus of a fuel used in the direct injection system of an internal combustion engine. A method is needed to continuously monitor and reliably calculate the fuel's bulk modulus during engine operation on-board the vehicle, where the fuel's bulk modulus may be used to infer the ratio of fuels in a fuel mixture or determine the density of supercritical propane when propane is used as the injected fuel. To find the fuel's bulk modulus on-board a vehicle, methods are proposed that involve monitoring and recording fuel rail pressures, high pressure pump duty cycles, and fractional liquid volume pumped values in order to find zero flow relationships. |
申请公布号 |
US2015240771(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2015.08.27 |
申请号 |
US201414189946 |
申请日期 |
2014.02.25 |
申请人 |
Ford Global Technologies, LLC |
发明人 |
Pursifull Ross Dykstra;Surnilla Gopichandra;Zhang Hao;Meinhart Mark;Basmaji Joseph F. |
分类号 |
F02M65/00 |
主分类号 |
F02M65/00 |
代理机构 |
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代理人 |
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主权项 |
1. A method, comprising:
adjusting duty cycle of a high pressure pump to measure a bulk modulus of a fuel based on a zero flow function for the high pressure pump, the fuel being pumped through the high pressure pump and the zero flow function based on a change in pump duty cycle relative to a resulting change in fuel rail pressure. |
地址 |
Dearborn MI US |