Exhaust Pressure Based Misfire Detection

Abstract: The parts in this report that are classified have been replaced by the symbol □.Even axes in some figures have been erased by the same reason.In emission legislation from California Air Resources Board, CARB, futuredemands on misfire detection in heavy duty diesel vehicles will cover anextended operating area than previous demands. Industry standard has so farbeen using crank shaft speed based methods. It is not obvious that speedbased methods will manage to detect misfire in the extended area.This report shows an alternative approach for misfire detection, based uponmeasured pressure in the exhaust manifold. The method compares themeasured pressure pattern with known templates. This work shows that themethod works at stationary measurements in the whole required operatingarea. Furthermore, measurements has shown that the exhaust brake can beused at pressures up to about □□□ hPa without any significant change to theexhaust pressure pattern. The influence of waste gate use at low load has beenanalysed. It shows low influence on the pressure trace when using misfiredetection template. Finally location of the pressure sensor has been studied,showing a possibility to improve misfire detection by placing the sensor closeto the exhaust port at the cylinder where improvement is needed.