LASER RESEARCH OF FUEL ATOMIZATION AND COMBUSTION PROCESSES IN THE ASPECT OF EXHAUST GASES EMISSION

The fuel injection phenomena belongs to the most essential processes, which are object of many experimental and theoretical works, indispensable for development of contemporary internal-combustion engines, both the spark and compression ignition. The direct injection of fuel to the engine combustion chamber belongs to most advanced solutions and must realize at least two or even more different strategies of engine performance. Article presents the various research methods of the fuel atomization processes, being concentrated on laser methods, from which deserves on the emphasis the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) system, the Laser Doppler Velocimeter (LDV) system and Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer (PDPA) system. Article presents theoretical analysis relating the atomized fuel stream. The results of research based on the laser research equipment are also submitted in the article. Moreover presented are the results of research of the combustion process in the fixed volume chamber, where essentially two different strategies of the combustion process of homogenous and heterogeneous load were realized. The properly shaped fuel stream permits on obtainment of repeatable ignition and combustion in the wide range of the mixture variance. The essential meaning has the fuel stream disintegration, which influences advantageously on the level of the toxic exhaust elements emission, particularly on the hydrocarbon emission level because of the ignition dropout elimination and on the level of the nitrogen oxides emission because of short sojourn time of the fuel droplets in the combustion zone