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INTERNAL
COMBUSTION
ENGINE
FUNDAMENTALS
The number of moles of burned mixture
per
unit mass of air
in
the original mixture
is
--
ti;;
-
0.0371
The molar specific heat
Z,,
is
therefore
and
y,
is
To find
Ah
JR,, R,
is given by
R,
=
8.314
x
0.0353
=
0.293
k3/kg
air
K
and so
45
THERMODYNAMIC
CHARTS
One method of presenting thermodynamic properties of unburned and burned
gas mixtures for internal combustion engine calculations is on charts. Two sets of
charts are in common use: those developed by Hottel et aL3 and those developed
by Newhall and Starkman.4*' Both these sets of charts use U.S. units. We have
developed a new set of charts in SI units, following the approach of
Newhall and
Starkman. Charts are no longer used extensively for engine cycle calculations;
computer models for the thermodynamic properties of working fluids have
replaced the charts. Nonetheless, charts are useful for illustrative purposes, and
afford an easy and accurate method where a limited number of calculations are
required. The charts presented below are for isooctane fuel, and the following
equivalence ratios:
4
=
0.4,0.6,0.8, 1.0,
1.2.
45.1
Unburned
Mixture
Charts
The thermodynamic properties of each unburned fuel-air mixture are represented
by two charts. The first chart is designed to relate the mixture temperature, pres-
sure, and volume at the beginning and at the end of the compression process; the
second gives the mixture internal energy and enthalpy
as
functions of tem-
perature.
The following assumptions are made:
1.
The compression process is reversible and adiabatic.
PROPERTIES
OF
WORKXNG
FLUIDS
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TABLE
46
unburned
mixture composition for charts
~qrivrleaee
Khpms
of
mixtnre
Mdcs
of
mixture
Kilomole
of
mixture
PI,,
Rt
rntio
$
(FIA)
per
kilognm
of
air
per
mole
of
02
per
kilogram
of
air
J/kg
air.^
0.4 0.0264
1.0264
4.805
+
0.112~. 0.0348
+
0.00081~~ 289
0.6 0.0396
1.0396
4.821
+
0.168~~ 0.0349
+
0.00122~~ 290
0
8
0.0528
1.0528
4.837
+
0.224~~ 0.030350
+
0.00162~~ 291
1
.o 0.0661
1.0661
4.853
+
0.28Oxb 0.0351
+
0.00203~~ 292
1.2
0.0792
1.0792
4.869
+
0.536~~ 0.0352
+
0.00388~~ 292
t
For
r,
E
0.
Error
h
neglecting
X,
is
usually
mall.
2.
The fuel is in the vapor phase.
3.
The mixture composition is homogeneous and frozen (no reactions between
the fuel and air).
4.
Each species in the mixture can be modeled as an ideal gas.
5.
The burned gas fraction is zero.?
It proves convenient to assign zero internal energy or enthalpy to the
unburned mixture at 298.15
K.
Internal energy and enthalpies relative to this
datum are called sensible internal energy u, or sensible enthalpy h,. By sensible we
mean changes in u or h which result from changes in temperature alone, and we
exclude changes due to chemical reaction or phase change.
Table 4.6 provides the basic composition data for the unburned mixture
charts. Equations (4.13a, b) provide the basis for obtaining the u,,(T) and h,JT)
curves shown in Fig. 4-3.
Equations (4.15) and (4.16) provide the basis for following a reversible adia-
batic (i.e., isentropic) compression process. Between end states 1 and
2,
we obtain,
per kilogram of air in the mixture,
where nu is the number of moles of unburned mixture per kilogram of air. Values
t
This assumption introduces negligible error into calculations of the compression process for
mix-
tures with
nonnal burned
gas
fractions,
since
the major constituent of the residual
is
N,.
The burned
Bas
fraction must, however,
be
included when the unburned mixture properties are related to burned
nxture
properties in a combustion process.