Effect of inlet cone pipe angle in catalytic converter

3rd International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing and Process Plant Engineering

机械制造;工业技术

Zainal, Nurul Amira^1 ; Azmi, Ezzatul Farhain^2 ; Samad, Mohd Arifin^2

Faculty of Engineering Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, Durian Tunggal, Melaka

76100, Malaysia^1

Faculty of Eng. Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, Durian Tunggal, Melaka

76100, Malaysia^2

关键词: Back pressures;    Different geometry;    Divergence angle;    Geometric design;    Solidworks software;    Volume of fluids;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/328/1/012029/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/328/1/012029

学科分类：工业工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The catalytic converter shows significant consequence to improve the performance of the vehicle start from it launched into production. Nowadays, the geometric design of the catalytic converter has become critical to avoid the behavior of backpressure in the exhaust system. The backpressure essentially reduced the performance of vehicles and increased the fuel consumption gradually. Consequently, this study aims to design various models of catalytic converter and optimize the volume of fluid flow inside the catalytic converter by changing the inlet cone pipe angles. Three different geometry angles of the inlet cone pipe of the catalytic converter were assessed. The model is simulated in Solidworks software to determine the optimum geometric design of the catalytic converter. The result showed that by decreasing the divergence angle of inlet cone pipe will upsurge the performance of the catalytic converter.