Control-oriented turbine power model for a variable-geometry turbocharger

Zeng, Tao; Zhu, Guoming

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“…Though this approach shows improvements in transient performance, porting them to real-time system becomes tedious and complicated where turbine mass flow characteristics are defined using maps. 14 Hence, modeling compressor mass flow for boost pressure control in an ECU is currently not state of the art, and authors in this paper propose a novel method with reduced complexity to calculate compressor flow for the advanced airpath control application.…”

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Development and validation of nonlinear dynamic engine airpath models for real-time advanced control application

Kamath

Kopold²,

Venkobarao³

et al. 2021

International Journal of Engine Research

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This paper proposes model reduction techniques for reducing engine airpath models in real-time (RT), for a control oriented application in an engine equipped with high pressure exhaust gas recirculation (EGR-HP) and single stage turbocharger. There are two major challenges addressed by authors: First, reducing the order without compromising the performance in terms of accuracy by decoupling the nonlinear coupled differential equations of airpath system in-order to use them in real-time processor-in-loop control application. A model reduction technique based on different dynamic characteristics between thermodynamic states followed by semi-implicit Euler (SIE) numerical method to solve coupled dynamic multi-input multi-output (MIMO) differential equation models is demonstrated. Second, the authors have proposed a novel method to calculate gas mass flow via compressor, coupled with engine airpath model in real-time. The proposed models of airpath system coupled with turbocharger models for a diesel engine is validated with experimental data to evaluate performance of pressures, temperatures, mass flows at relevant components. The developed airpath model is used for calculating thermodynamic properties in real-time for state of art engine control unit (ECU) in production engine and become basis for feedforward as well as closed loop control of airpath variables for real-time system. Authors further propose to use this modeling approach for calculating airpath system variables for exhaust aftertreatment system, injection system, and for virtualization of sensor values in airpath systems.

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Development and validation of nonlinear dynamic engine airpath models for real-time advanced control application

Kamath

Kopold²,

Venkobarao³

et al. 2021

International Journal of Engine Research

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Regenerative Hydraulic Assisted Turbocharger

Zeng

Upadhyay

Sun

et al. 2018

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

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Engine downsizing and down-speeding are essential in order to meet future U.S. fuel economy (FE) mandates. Turbocharging is one technology to meet these goals. Fuel economy improvements must, however, be achieved without sacrificing performance. One significant factor impacting drivability on turbocharged engines is typically referred to as “turbolag.” Since turbolag directly impacts the driver's torque demands, it is usually perceptible as an undesired slow transient boost response or as a sluggish torque response. High throughput turbochargers (TC) are especially susceptible to this dynamic and are often equipped with variable geometry turbines (VGT) to mitigate some of this effect. Assisted boosting techniques that add power directly to the TC shaft from a power source that is independent of the engine have been shown to significantly reduce turbolag. Single unit assisted turbochargers are either electrically assisted or hydraulically assisted. In this study, a regenerative hydraulically assisted turbocharger (RHAT) system is evaluated. A custom-designed RHAT system is coupled to a light duty diesel engine and is analyzed via vehicle and engine simulations for performance and energy requirements over standard test cycles. Supplier-provided performance maps for the hydraulic turbine, hydraulic turbopump were used. A production controller was coupled with the engine model and upgraded to control the engagement and disengagement of RHAT, with energy management strategies. Results show some interesting dynamics and shed light on system capabilities especially with regard to the energy balance between the assist and regenerative functions. Design considerations based on open-loop simulations are used for sizing the high-pressure accumulator. Simulation results show that the proposed RHAT turbocharger system can significantly improve engine transient response. Vehicle level simulations that include the driveline were also conducted and showed potential for up to 4% fuel economy improvement over the FTP 75 drive cycle. This study also identified some technical challenges related to optimal design and operation of the RHAT. Opportunities for additional fuel economy improvements are also discussed.

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Modeling and Control of a Diesel Engine With Regenerative Hydraulic-Assisted Turbocharger

Zeng

Zhu

2018

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

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Diesel engines are of great challenges due to stringent emission and fuel economy requirements. Compared with the conventional turbocharger system, regenerative assisted system provides additional degrees-of-freedom for turbocharger speed control. Hence, it significantly improves control capability for exhaust-gas-recirculation (EGR) and boost pressure. This paper focuses on modeling and control of a diesel engine air-path system equipped with an EGR subsystem and a variable geometry turbocharger (VGT) coupled with a regenerative hydraulic-assisted turbocharger (RHAT). The challenges lie in the inherent coupling among EGR, turbocharger performance, and high nonlinearity of the engine air-path system. A control-oriented nonlinear RHAT system model is developed; and a linear quadratic (LQ) control design approach is proposed in this paper to regulate the EGR mass flow rate and boost pressure simultaneously and the resulting closed-loop system performance can be tuned by properly selecting the LQ control weighting matrices. Multiple LQ controllers with integral action are designed based on the linearized system models over a gridded engine operational map and the final gain-scheduling controller for a given engine operational condition is obtained by interpreting the neighboring LQ controllers. The gain-scheduling LQ controllers for both traditional VGT-EGR and VGT-EGR-RHAT systems are compared with the in-house baseline controller, consisting of two single-input and single-output (SISO) controllers, against the nonlinear plant. The simulation results show that the designed multi-input and multi-output LQ gain-scheduling controller is able to manage the performance trade-offs between EGR mass flow and boost pressure tracking. With the additional assisted and regenerative power available on the turbocharger shaft for the RHAT system, engine transient boost pressure performance can be significantly improved without compromising the EGR tracking performance, compared with the baseline control.

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Control-oriented turbine power model for a variable-geometry turbocharger

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Development and validation of nonlinear dynamic engine airpath models for real-time advanced control application

Development and validation of nonlinear dynamic engine airpath models for real-time advanced control application

Regenerative Hydraulic Assisted Turbocharger

Modeling and Control of a Diesel Engine With Regenerative Hydraulic-Assisted Turbocharger

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