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In this study, using a droplet dripping and evaporation test rig, over ten thousands droplets of diesel and bio-diesel fuels were dripped on a hot surface repeatedly, and evaporation deposits formed from them were quantitatively analyzed. Results show that wet-dry condition and hot surface temperature were main controlling factors of deposits development. Empirical equations of deposits development were derived from the experimental results. Further carbonaceous evaporation deposits from RME were around ten times serious than diesel fuel. The main reason of it was that bio-diesel fuel was produced from various plant oils through esterification and it was liquid phase chemical reaction process with no hot distillation, so that thermal stability of bio-diesel fuel was poor.

In a direct injection diesel engine, fuel spray was auto-ignited by an elevated temperature and pressure atmosphere in a combustion chamber. Since an ignition might appear in which a suitable mixture for exothermic reaction was prepared and flame might be developing to a combustible mixture, a settlement of ignition in time and space could control the entire combustion. The ignition position was usually investigated with photometric observations such as high-speed video systems. However plane observations could not inform the exact position of the ignition because spray had the 3D structure. In this paper, a new trial for the measurement of the ignition position was reported. A single shot diesel spray injected into a test chamber was ignited by elevated temperature and pressure atmosphere in the chamber. The chamber had an impingement plate so as to measure an ignition delay of a wall impingement diesel spray.