Scribd
Upload
139 views3 pages

Learning Exercise 4 GT-Power/GT-Suite Simulation Exercises Part 2: Building Up A Simulation Model For A Turbocharged 6-Cylinder Diesel Engine (10p)

This document provides instructions for a simulation exercise using GT-Power software to model a turbocharged 6-cylinder diesel engine. The simulation aims to illustrate how turbocharger and engine performance are simulated. Students are asked to: 1) Run simulations at 3 engine loads and constant speed, analyzing compressor/turbine maps and efficiency as well as temperature, pressure and engine performance metrics. 2) Explain turbocharger compressor/turbine maps, the role of the intercooler, and which variables are calculated versus looked up from maps. 3) Report time spent and any other comments.

Uploaded by

ManuelLenti
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
139 views3 pages

Learning Exercise 4 GT-Power/GT-Suite Simulation Exercises Part 2: Building Up A Simulation Model For A Turbocharged 6-Cylinder Diesel Engine (10p)

This document provides instructions for a simulation exercise using GT-Power software to model a turbocharged 6-cylinder diesel engine. The simulation aims to illustrate how turbocharger and engine performance are simulated. Students are asked to: 1) Run simulations at 3 engine loads and constant speed, analyzing compressor/turbine maps and efficiency as well as temperature, pressure and engine performance metrics. 2) Explain turbocharger compressor/turbine maps, the role of the intercooler, and which variables are calculated versus looked up from maps. 3) Report time spent and any other comments.

Uploaded by

ManuelLenti
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

 

EEN-E3002 Power Process Simulation, 2018


Learning Exercise 4 (“Twin Scroll” Turbocharger attached with 6 cylinder
Engine) 

GT-Power/GT-Suite Simulation Exercises Part 2: Building up a


simulation model for a turbocharged 6-cylinder diesel engine (10p)

Turbocharger for boosting air pressure  
Exhaust Gas 

to turbine   
Air to  

compressor 

Inter cooler for cooling   Exhaust Gas 
hot compressed Air    out 

 
 The following exercise is to be solved with GT-Power. GT Power/GT Suite tutorial material is available
for this course only. The assignment must be uploaded into MyCourses latest on Monday 09.4. at 23:55
o’clock.
The purpose of this exercise is to illustrate by a tutorial example how the simulation of a turbocharged
engine works in GT-Power. The exercise will be based on the single-cylinder diesel engine built on Tutorial
Chapter 1 (or the first GT-Power exercise) which will then be converted to a 6-cylinder turbocharged
diesel engine.
Follow step by step guidelines for building model available on Mycourses or you can follow Engine
Performance tutorial notes.

Before running the simulations the following changes should be made on the model in order to reduce
the computational time:
 In Run Setup, select Initialization state: User imposed. The conditions will change so much in the
load change that the computational time will increase if the starting point would be the results from
the previous case.
 In Output Setup, choose X-axis RLT for time RLT plots: period, check Store Time RLT Results?
and put Time RLT Storage Multiple (Periods) = 1. This change makes it possible to see how the
rotational speed of the turbocharger stabilizes as a function of engine cycles: GT-Post  Plots &
Tables  Time RLT  ShaftTurbo.
 Create ProfilePeriod-object (Templates  General  Data Look-Ups) which can manipulate the
multiplier of the moment of inertia of the turbocharger shaft. This stabilizes the rotational speed of
the turbocharger until the pressure levels in the pipes have risen to correct level. This ProfilePeriod-
object will be referred from the Shaft-object in the Inertia multiplier-field. In ProfilePeriod, use
moment of inertia value 1e7 for the first 3 computational periods and 1.0 for the fourth which is the
real value of the multiplier (def).

The computational time of this model can change rapidly even with small changes because it is difficult
to get the turbocharger variables to converge. This is why the following values will be given to each case:
Case number 1 2 3
TC initial speed rpm 95000 82000 66000

Injected mass mg 80 60 40

The initial shaft speed is important for making the model converge in a reasonable number of cycles. The
closest this value is set to the steady-state operating speed, the shorter the amount of cycles to convergence.
Also, the 'Shaft Moment of Inertia' attribute should represent the total rotational inertia of the turbocharger,
including the turbine wheel, compressor wheel, and shaft.
Question 1. When the model is ready, the 3 given engine loads (injected mass) on constant engine speed
(3600 rpm) will be simulated. The following things should be analyzed from the simulation results and
included in the report (6 p.)
A. The compressor operation point transition on the compressor map with different loads. Highlight
efficiency and shaft speed.
B. The turbine operation point transition on the turbine map with different loads. Highlight efficiency
and shaft speed.
C. Compressor inlet and outlet temperatures, pressure ratio and efficiency
D. Turbine inlet and outlet temperatures, pressure ratio and efficiency
E. Engine performance values- BMEP, IMEP, Power, Torque, fuel consumption and air consumption.
Report with cases plots and main scalar values.

You can try and change the Initialization state to “Previous case”. See what happens.
Question 2. The following things should be included in the report also (4p.):
A. Explain a typical turbocharger compressor map and how it works?
B. Explain a typical turbocharger turbine map and how it works?
C. Explain the role of intercooler in the simulation?
D. In engine simulations, which variables are calculated on the program and which ones are looked up
on the compressor/ turbine maps? (I.e. which values are input values for the maps and which are the
output values?)
Question 3. How much time did you spend on the exercise? Also, free comments

You might also like