Data Driven In-Cylinder Pressure Diagram Based Optimization Procedure

• Main Authors: Mina Tadros, Manuel Ventura, C. Guedes Soares
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
• Series: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
• Subjects: marine genset; injection parameters; optimization model; data fitting technique; minimizing MAPE; in-cylinder pressure diagram
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/8/4/294
• ISSN: 2077-1312

An engine optimization model is developed to fit the calculated in-cylinder pressure diagram to the experimental data by finding the optimal values of the start angle of injection and the amount of injected fuel for different engine loads. Firstly, the engine model is built in Ricardo Wave software and some parts are calibrated using data collected from the manufacturer. Then, an optimization process is performed based on the fitness function that includes the objective of the study and the penalty functions to express constraints. This optimization environment simulates the performance of a marine generator system for three different loads by minimizing the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) between the in-cylinder pressure simulated data and the measured data along 40 degrees of the combustion process and by verifying the firing pressure and the engine brake power. The percentage of error between the calculated and the real thermodynamic data does not exceed 3.4% and the MAPE between the calculated and the real in-cylinder pressure diagram along the combustion process does not exceed 5.7% for the different loads. The proposed method can be further used to find the optimal value of different input parameters during the calibration process of different engine numerical models.