VCR Single Cylinder Four Stroke Dual Fuel Engine Test Rig with rope brake dynamometer

The setup consists of single cylinder, four stroke engine connected to dynamometer for loading. It is provided with necessary instruments for combustion pressure and crankangle measurements. These signals are interfaced to computer through engine indicator for P?-PV diagrams. Provision is also made for interfacing airflow, fuel flow, temperatures and load measurement. The setup has standalone panel box consisting of air box, fuel tank, manometer, fuel measuring unit, transmitters for air and fuel flow measurements, process indicator and engine indicator. Rotameters are provided for cooling water and calorimeter water flow measurement. The setup enables study of engine performance for brake power, indicated power, frictional power, BMEP, IMEP, brake thermal efficiency, indicated thermal efficiency, Mechanical efficiency, volumetric efficiency, specific fuel consumption, A/F ratio and heat balance. Labview based engine performance analysis software package “Enginesoft” is provided for online performance evaluation. EngineSoft is Labview based software package developed by K.C. Engineers for engine performance monitoring system. EngineSoft can serve most of the engine testing application needs including monitoring, reporting, data entry, data logging. The software evaluates power, efficiencies, fuel consumption and heat release. It is configurable as per engine setup. Various graphs are obtained at different operating condition. While on line testing of the engine in RUN mode necessary signals are scanned, stored and presented in graph. Stored data file is accessed to view the data graphical and tabular formats. The results and graphs can be printed. The data in excel format can be used for further analysis.