Higher pressure and higher precision are required for diesel fuel injection equipment in response to increasingly severe emissions control regulations. Market diesel fuels have become more diversified than in the past. Diesel fuel quality has also been changing, being affected by crude oil slate, extreme lowering of sulfur content, and diesel reformulated from heavy fuel oil, among other reasons. As a result of this, deposits thought to have a fuel origin have been observed within diesel fuel injectors in certain regions. Related changes in fuel injection quantity have also been observed.
This paper determines injector deposit production mechanisms. It focuses on the structural changes of deposit causative substances by temperature as well as injector design change improvements to prevent deposits. It also reports effects of reduced temperature on fuel injection equipment (FIE) and improved surface treatment methods for the internal parts, based on mechanisms determined from glassware tests.
