Method for controlling an internal combustion engine

• Main Authors: HOLST, HAUKE, SIXELL, EIKE JOACHIM
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 23.12.2015
• Subjects: BLASTING; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TOTRANSPORTATION; COMBUSTION ENGINES; CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HEATING; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS; IGNITION, OTHER THAN COMPRESSION IGNITION, FORINTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES; LIGHTING; MEASURING; MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER,MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PHYSICS; SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL, WITH COMBUSTIBLEMIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE; TESTING; TESTING OF IGNITION TIMING IN COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINES; WEAPONS

The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a reciprocating internal combustion engine (100) operating at least partly on gaseous fuel. The method may comprise receiving (step 402) a pressure data set of a combustion event. The method may further comprise deriving an actual combustion duration (step 420) of the combustion event from the received pressure data set, and determining (step 428) that the derived combustion duration of the combustion event is shorter than a preset combustion duration. The method may further comprise providing a control signal (step 440) to adapt an operation of the internal combustion engine (100).