Diesel Engine Conversion
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Duel Fuel Mode
The easiest way to run a diesel on wood gas is in dual fuel mode. You can
also take out the injectors and replace them with spark plugs, while also setting
up the ignition and timing to run them. This is often seen as too much effort,
so the engine is run in dual fuel mode.
In dual duel mode, wood is wood gas is still introduced through the air intake,
but ignition is provided by a small amount of diesel. The wood gas / air mixture
will not auto ignite on compression, or if does, it will be timing uncontrolled.
There still needs to a small amount of diesel injected to provide the ignition
event at the correct timing. The wood gas substitution ratio can go up to about
90% usually.
The diesel engine still remains an unthrottled intake when running in dual fuel.
Like a regular diesel engine, there is no throttle plate that is used to adjust the
amout of fuel/air introduced to the engine. However now, instead of adjusting
the amount of diesel coming in via the injectors, we now vary the amount of
woodgas coming in the air intake. In essence, what was the "mixture valve" in
the gasoline engine is now the speed control valve for the diesel set up.
You still have one side of the tee open to atmosphere, with ball valve to control,
and the other side of the tee going to the gasifier. The more you shut off the
air, the more wood gas will get pulled into the engine. Note this wood gas / air
will NOT be mixed to the correct stoichimetric ratio. A diesel engine does not
need this due to the higher compression, and the injection event creating all
possible mixture ratios as it propagates into the cyclinder. At some point
during this injection propagation, the mixture will be correct, and things will
fire. And once it fires, the rest of the wood gas will get quickly invovled in the
pyro show.
Note also that you can over choke the air coming in with the mixture valve so
you do not have enough air to complete combustion. This will result in a rich
mixture, and syngas going out the exhaust pipe. A proper diesel dual fuel set
up would include an O2 sensor on the exhaust to control for overmixing of
wood gas, same as with a regular diesel rig.
There is also a compression ratio limit for running wood gas in a diesel engine.
If you go above this, you will start to get auto-detonation and will have to
reduce the woodgas substition amount. Most turbo diesel engines are not
appropriate for wood gas conversion because compression ratio can exceede
the compression ratio optimal for wood gas combustion.
Spark Conversion of Diesel (advanced)
By using a spark plug, no additional fuel needs to be used to ignite the
mixture. This is often the way natural gas engines are derived. They are often
burly diesel engine bases, from which the injectors have been removed and
spark plugs installed. The result is a very high compression spark fire engine,
with all the robust characteristics of a diesel engine that help to make them
long lived (minus the lubrication from the diesel fuel).
You can also do the same with your local diesel engine. Ignition systems are
easy and cheap, and spark plugs often near fit into injector holes with minor
persuasion. Here's one we did recently.
At the APL workshop in February 2010, Ken Boak, Darrel Licks and Mike A
converted a standard Lister 6/1 diesel engine to run on 100% wood gas engine
via spark ignition. This worked despite this being an indirect injection lister,
and the spark plug being hidden way up in the precombustion chamber. We
we're unconvinced it would fire with this type of conversion, but it did just fine
and ran great. The spark was provided by an Arduino microcontroller with
timing from a Hall effect sensor on the flywheel shaft, the results firing the
spark plug we press fit into the injector hole.
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