Airbox Design, Analysis and Improvement for a High Performance Road Racing Sidecar

Parry, Lewis; Könözsy, László; Temple, Clive

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75677-6_48

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“…Based on the journal written by L. Parry [9], pressure drop can be reduced by adding guide vanes inside the airbox. The shape of a guide vane forms an aerofoil-shaped which will be placed at the point the flow turns turbulent.…”

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“…In an advanced passenger car design, the key regions for the improvement of passenger car performance are: engine, tires and optimized characteristics [9]. Several techniques were used to enhance the engine's performance.…”

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“…The vehicle's weight can be reduced by removing spare tyres or replacing iron pistons with aluminium material. One of the more extreme measures done to lighten the vehicle's weight is to use acrylic windows instead of glass windows [9]. Besides that, not only the performance of the engine can be enhanced by installing turbo or supercharger but the lifespan can also be boosted too [9].…”

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“…One of the more extreme measures done to lighten the vehicle's weight is to use acrylic windows instead of glass windows [9]. Besides that, not only the performance of the engine can be enhanced by installing turbo or supercharger but the lifespan can also be boosted too [9]. Superchargers or turbo functions by boosting the vehicle's engine to drive the compressed air forcefully into the combustion chamber of the engine.…”

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Design improvement of an airbox for a passenger vehicle

Tan

Bakar

2021

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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The purpose of an airbox is to provide the engine with a clean air flow for combustion. The high velocity of the fluid flow across the airbox will create a pressure drop resulting a decline in the vehicle’s performance. This project collaborates with an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to develop a numerical simulation model for a new airbox design and to compare its pressure drop with OEM production design. Reducing the pressure drop across the airbox can increase the efficiency of a vehicle, hence, reducing CO2 emissions. This research focuses on the passenger type vehicle as it is the highest source of carbon dioxide (CO2) being emitted for road transportation and these pollutant emissions have also caused many health problems on human. ANSYS Fluent program was used to carry out Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation for both OEM and the new design. Then, the same simulation setup was used for the new design. The inlet size of the new design is larger when compared to the OEM design. After analysing both models, it was determined that the main reason behind the pressure loss was caused by the shape of the airbox and turbulent flow inside. The new airbox design shows reduction of 96% in the pressure drop within it and in return, enhancing the performance of the passenger vehicle. This conclude that numerical simulation model is able to provide a good indicator for the designer to choose the best design and proceed with fabrication and conduct actual test, thus saving a lot of prototyping and repeated testing cost.

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2021

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“…Moreover, the previous study has stated that the volume of airbox has a significant influence on the volumetric efficiency of an engine. [17]. The amount of air that is entering the combustion chamber is controlled by a throttle body.…”

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Application of Box-Behnken Analysis on the Optimisation of Air Intake System for a Naturally Aspirated Engine

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Ngadiman

Abas

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IJAME

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Fuel price crisis has caused people to demand a car that is having a low fuel consumption without compromising the engine performance. Designing a naturally aspirated engine which can enhance engine performance and fuel efficiency requires optimisation processes on air intake system components. Hence, this study intends to carry out the optimisation process on the air intake system and airbox geometry. The parameters that have high influence on the design of an airbox geometry was determined by using AVL Boost software which simulated the automobile engine. The optimisation of the parameters was done by using Design Expert which adopted the Box-Behnken analysis technique. The result that was obtained from the study are optimised diameter of inlet/snorkel, volume of airbox, diameter of throttle body and length of intake runner are 81.07 mm, 1.04 L, 44.63 mm and 425 mm, respectively. By using these parameters values, the maximum engine performance and minimum fuel consumption are 93.3732 Nm and 21.3695×10-4 kg/s, respectively. This study has fully accomplished its aim to determine the significant parameters that influenced the performance of airbox and optimised the parameters so that a high engine performance and fuel efficiency can be produced. The success of this study can contribute to a better design of an airbox.

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Airbox Design, Analysis and Improvement for a High Performance Road Racing Sidecar

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Design improvement of an airbox for a passenger vehicle

Design improvement of an airbox for a passenger vehicle

Application of Box-Behnken Analysis on the Optimisation of Air Intake System for a Naturally Aspirated Engine

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