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Article history: In CI engines, injector spraying into the combustion chamber has extreme importance in fuel atomization
Received 12 December 2017 and knocking control in the CI engines. Knocking and malfunction of engines due to faulty injectors can
Received in revised form 30 July 2018 lead to efficiency reduction, damages, and acoustic noise. Much research is developing methods of engine
Accepted 4 September 2018
knock detection. Hence, injector fault detection has not been addressed specifically, this research is
Available online 8 September 2018
focused on the subject and corresponding vibration amplitudes and frequencies, likely to cause the knock
phenomenon. Welch test, Short-Term Fourier Transform (STFT), Wigner-Ville Distribution (WVD), and
Keywords:
Choi-Williams Distribution (CWD) were employed for detailed scrutiny of vibrations generated by an
Vibration
Injector
under-load engine. For an ideal combustion, the acceleration peak values should be placed in the range
TFR analysis of 0–10 kHz in time-frequency (TFR) diagram. While a faulty injection unit can cause components at
Fault diagnosis higher frequency, between 10 and 25 kHz, in TFR diagram for each cylinder, and this can effects on the
Knocking engine performance. Regarding the results which are presented in this research it infers that, in real-
time performance monitoring of an engine, the STFT technique is more efficient for fault diagnosis of fuel
injection nozzles and knock detection. By comparing vibration response of healthy and faulty injectors,
the RMS and kurtosis of the faulty injectors showed an increase of 12.9% and 20.6% respectively.
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signals were converted using various methods such as FT (Fourier Diesel engine’s injection process is necessary for optimal engine
Transform), TFR transforms like STFT, WVD, CWD, ZAMD, WT operation in terms of efficiency, power, and torque and reduction
(wavelet transform), etc. [11–13]. TFR analyses are among the of emissions. In general, this process is highly depend on the con-
novel and practical methods for structural health monitoring in dition of injection pump and fuel injector. Combustion progress in
vibrating systems [14]. TFR approach can be used in analyzing diesel engines is depend on the characteristics of injection process
the behavior of some systems. This method has been used for anal- like the number of injectors and their timing, fuel quantity, and
ysis of friction-induced vibrations in engines. With any variation in mean injection pressure. Therefore, any changes in characteristics
a system, a frequency change occurs in the TFR analysis caused by of injection process can effects on the engine block vibrations
vibration [15]. For example, STFT can be used to detect different [30]. It is difficult to extract these information through measuring
sources of vibration in an engine. Further, this method has been parameters such as needle position, vibration, or acoustic proper-
used for identifying normal and abnormal combustion-related ties of direct air-borne measurements [31]. Elamin et al. done the
knocking in a cylinder block. Using the FFT and FFT-based methods, identifying of injector faults in a diesel engine using acoustic emis-
such as estimated power spectral density, is unsuitable for identi- sion (AE) technique. The AE signals were recorded and processed in
fying non-stationary events, including cross-terms and systems the angular, frequency, and jointed angular-frequency domain. The
with rapid changes in time and frequency. Nevertheless, these results of angular-frequency analysis was shown that AE can
methods are fast and capable of filtering noises [16]. Lee et al. clearly monitor the changes in the combustion process due to its
developed a method of knock detection using cylinder pressure, high signal to noise ratio compared to other methods [32]. Jianmin
block vibration and sound pressure signals from a SI engine. Knock et al. monitored a diesel engine fuel-injection system through
intensity greatly varies with engine operating conditions, knock vibrations analyzing. The results revealed that vibration signal
sensor locations and fuel characteristics [17]. Taghizadeh et al. can potentially be employed for fault diagnosis and obtain infor-
studied the combustion, vibration, and knocking in diesel engines mation such as crash strength [33]. Albarbar et al. used adaptive
produced due to different levels of diesel-biodiesel fuel blends by filtering to conditioning the injector impact excitations via
time-frequency methods. Each fault in injection units and incorrect air-borne acoustic signals. Based on the results, Wigner-Ville dis-
spraying causes the knocking phenomenon and high-frequency tribution (WVD) were useful in analyzing the injector needle
vibrations between the 7 and 25 kHz [18]. Rizzoni and Chen impacts [31,34]. In another research, Albarbar et al. investigated
detected knock in an internal combustion engine using time- the characteristics of diesel engine air-borne acoustic signal by
frequency distributions. They presented an improved knock detec- time-frequency domain analysis, and the energy levels within the
tion scheme capable of tracking variations in the knock resonance injection process in the frequency band of 9–15 kHz [34]. Siano
frequencies. Experimental results obtained from a single-cylinder and Agostino employed discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to ana-
engine were used to validate the proposed method [19]. Bares lyze the cylinder block signals of a SI engine for knock detecting.
et al. analyzed the frequency spectrum of the pressure signal of They used a Multi-Resolution Analysis (MRA) and conventional
an engine using FFT and a window function in two locations near index MAPO for pressure data. The research had very similar
the maximum heat release and near the end of combustion, and results for the both methods [35]. Flett and Bone studied a fault
the result was compared with the classical maximum amplitude detection and diagnosis (FDD) system for a diesel internal-
pressure oscillation (MAPO) definition. Results showed that the combustion engine valve train with deformed valve spring faults
proposed knock index definition can avoid the strong knocking and abnormal valve clearance faults. Five classification methods
events and reduces engine vibration [20]. Wang et al. used the were implemented experimentally to monitor valve closing and
Wigner-Ville distribution (WVD) of vibration signals for different combustion impacts. The FDD approach using the Naïve-Bayes
states of valve train and displayed it as TFR diagram. Moreover, classification method produced the best performance. The detec-
probabilistic neural networks (PNNs) were employed to classify tion and classification accuracy values for multiple faults were
the time-frequency diagrams after normalization. By these meth- 99.95% and 92.45%, respectively [36].
ods, the fault diagnosis of the valve train was associated to the A literature review showed the lack of research focused on the
time-frequency (TFR) diagram [21]. Molinaro et al. carried out injection fault detection in CI engines using time-frequency analy-
the knocking recognition in engine vibration signal using the sis. Most of works that studied engine knock detection and there-
wavelet transform [22]. For low signal-to-noise ratio at high engine fore, identification of injector faults has not been addressed
speed, signal parameters extracted using wavelet transform specifically. In this study of this vibration signal of a six-cylinder
improve knocking detection [22]. Antoni et al. developed a cyclo- diesel engine were evaluated using time-frequency analyses. The
stationarity methodology for condition monitoring of internal experiments were conducted for detection of faulty injectors as
combustion engines based on angular sampling and cyclic signal well as engine’s knocking. The proposed diagnostic method in this
processing [23]. Cerdá et al. performed knock detection in diesel paper can detect the faulty injectors through knocking phe-
engines based on time-frequency analysis of cylinder pressure sig- nomenon. Finally, this research introduced and evaluated a fast
nal using Choi-Williams Distribution (CWD) via [24]. Chauvin et al. and reliable approach for injector fault detection in diesel engines.
studied real-time combustion parameters of HCCI-diesel engine
obtained from the knock sensor [25]. Ettefagh et al. developed a
parametric model-based filter to measure the knock intensity of 2. Materials and methods
a SI engine. The filter were designed based on advanced parametric
modeling method and decomposition of the non-stationary ran- 2.1. Experimental set up
dom vibration signals [26]. In recent years, higher-order spectra
(HOS) methods like bispectrum and trispectrum have been suc- A direct injection, four-stroke six-cylinder, diesel engine (Per-
cessfully applied for faults diagnosis in vehicles and rotating kins 1006-6) was used for experiments. To apply the load on the
machines [5,27,28]. The final targets of such techniques are to engine a dynamometer, model R5 made by NJ-FROMENT Co, was
achieve a significant reduction in the number of vibration trans- employed (Fig. 1a) as experimental setup. In this research, the
ducers installed at each bearing pedestal, without losing valuable engine was run with two series of healthy and faulty injectors.
information needed for the diagnosis [5,27]. The order bispectrum Injectors which were worked for more than 6 years and did not
analysis also eliminates the effects of rotating speed change on the spray well, were chosen as faulty injectors. Although these faulty
vibration signal [29]. injectors did not significantly effect on the engine performance. It
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Fig. 1. Schematics diagram of experimental set up; (a) dynamometer attached to the engine for load control, (b) data acquisition set up.
should be mentioned that the whole injectors had the same fault Sampling time was triggered by an engine shaft encoder signal.
type. New set of injectors were used as healthy and standard. The crank angle resolution of the proximity sensor was set on
A proximity sensor (AC 2-wire type model, Autonics, Korea) was 45° by a sampling frequency of 10 kHz. The experiments were con-
employed for measuring the crankshaft angle as well as for calcu- ducted in under-load engine conditions. Furthermore, the acceler-
lating engine speed. Based on the proximity-sensor-produced ation data were collected for both faulty and healthy injection
pulses’ count, the engine rotational speed was calculated. So, the units. The signal conditioning process was performed in time
angle of the crankshaft was recorded simultaneously during the domain, frequency domain, Welch test, and TFR analysis.
experiments. In this process, the proximity sensor was installed
at a 2 mm gap with the end of crankshaft. Eight knobs were circu-
larly placed at the end of the crankshaft to create the crankshaft 2.2. Theory of analytic methods
rotation pulses.
To acquire engine vibration signals, three accelerometers (made For spectral content of the signals, the Welch’s test was carried
by CTC -AC102-1A) were mounted on the engine body near the fly- out to detect the partial differences between the engine vibration
wheel. The sensor pulses and vibration signals were transferred to signals and total comparison between faulty and healthy injectors.
a switchboard. This switchboard includes four interface-starting At the first step, original signal of x(t) was divided into the L over-
circuit for the three accelerometers and the proximity sensor. lapping parts with length of N. The second step, was calculating
The output signals of switchboard were transferred to an analogue Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of the windowed parts prepared at
to digital (A/D) converter (Advantech, USB-4711A). Finally, the out- the previous step. FFT was calculated for each part according to
put data cable was connected to a computer port (Fig. 1b). In this Eq. (1). At the third step mean squared discrete FFT calculated
study, the sample rate was set on 50 kHz. According to the engine for each section of the signal.
specifications, the sampling frequency of data acquisition for Z þ1
accelerometers was set on 50 kHz. In signal analysis, half of this FFT ¼ xðtÞejxt dt; ð1Þ
frequency (25 kHz) is represented. Before data acquisition, ana- 1
logue anti-aliasing filtering was applied. The accelerometers were where x(t) and x are time series and frequency center, respectively.
mounted in three orthogonal directions namely vertical, lateral, In Welch’s test, after dividing the signal into the overlapping
and longitudinal (perpendicular to the other axes), respectively. parts between zero and 50%, the PSD is calculated for each section
Data were recorded for one minute at each experiment sample. of the signal according to Eq. (2).
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2
jFFTðW t X t ; f Þj 1 Choi and Williams introduced kernel in the form of an exponen-
PSD ¼ ð2Þ tial function, Eq. (9):
L Df
uðh; sÞ ¼ eh s =r :
2 2
where Xt is time series, L is the number of samples in time series, Wt ð9Þ
is window function, f is frequency center, and Df is frequency
The equation for the continuous Choi-Williams distribution of
spacing.
the input signal is given as
ZZ
2.2.1. Short-term Fourier Transform (STFT) 1 s s
CWDðt; xÞ ¼ pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi x l þ x l eððltÞ =ð4s =rÞÞjxs dl ds;
2 2
Fig. 2. Simulated compression and combustion pressure curves corresponding to measured engine body vibration.
(a) IVO at 25° (39.57 ms) before top dead center (TDC). 3.2. Detection injector’s fault
(b) EVC at 28° (41.28 ms) after TDC.
(c) IVC at 60° (64.89 ms) after the bottom dead center (BDC). At first, the experiments were performed with faulty fuel injec-
(d) Combustion peak pressure with maximum vibration at 18° tors at the engine speeds of 1600, 1700, 1800, 1900, and 2000 rpm
(78.92 ms) after TDC (for cylinder 4). and full load condition. The same tests were done for healthy ones
(e) EVO at 120° (90.42 ms) after the TDC with dashed red line or with new set of injectors. Fig. 4 shows some vibration signals at the
60° before BDC. 1800, 1900, and 2000 rpm for faulty and healthy samples. Pulses
from engine cylinders can be observed clearly in both cases. In
The engine firing order is 1-5-3-6-2-4, as well combustion- the engine with faulty injectors, combustion pulses come from
induced impacts occur at respective intervals of 40.43, 53.05, cylinders have irregularities compared with healthy injectors,
65.67, 74.29, 90.90, and 103.53 ms for each cylinder (start from especially at 1800 and 1900 rpm. At 2000 rpm, the pulses are more
cylinder 3). In an ideal combustion, the valve’s opening-closure similar to each other and making distinction between the injectors
impacts and fuel-injection nozzles spraying effect have fewer is difficult. As a result, lower speeds are more appropriate for such
intensities than the firing impact in the combustion chamber. fault diagnosis process.
In abnormal combustion condition, the most of frequency accu- For better analysis and judgment about the performance of
mulation are observed in ranges of 0–10 kHz and 10–25 kHz injectors, the Welch test was applied by Eq. (1) and (2), which is
while in ideal and proper combustion; pressure pulses generate difficult in time-domain signal.
vibrations with high amplitude in frequencies between 0 and Fig. 5 shows the Welch test diagram for engine with faulty and
10 kHz. healthy injectors. This method is appropriate for general comparison
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C I C I C I C I C I C I
TDC BDC
3 5 1 4 2 6 3
Fig. 3. Time domain of vibration signal on engine body with timing and events (1600 rpm).
Fig. 4. Time domain of vibration signal for engine with faulty (a) and healthy (b) for vertical direction.
between the test treatments. The signals of both faulty and healthy vibrations strongly are dropped for healthy injectors against the
injectors are shown in Fig. 5. On the left side of the diagram (large faulty ones. It can be said that most of the fuel energy loses are
dashed rectangle), the difference in peak points of both cases is happened because of unwanted combustion, and this can generate
clear. In healthy injectors, the peak is single and flat for all three high-frequency vibration. Incomplete and poor combustion can
speeds, however, the faulty mode is composed of several peaks. cause high-frequency vibrations in the range of 10 to 25 kHz and
On the other hand, the amplitude of acceleration for faulty mode makes knocking.
is more than the healthy mode in all three speeds. The main argu- RMS and kurtosis parameters that are employed to study the
ment is in the right side of the diagram (small dashed rectangle) for engine performance in this research are defined as follows.
each case. The diagram (Fig. 5) is divided into two frequency bands RMS is defined by Eq. (11) with the number of points within a
of 0–10 and 10–25 kHz. In the lower frequency range, the amount time period, N, and acceleration data, x(tk):
of vibrations are high in both cases of faulty and healthy. This " #1=2
vibration is related to fuel combustion and fluctuations of pressure 1 XN
xRMS ¼ x2 ðtk Þ : ð11Þ
inside the cylinders. In the frequency range of 10 to 25 kHz, the N k¼1
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Fig. 5. Frequency domain of vibration signal for engine with faulty (a) and healthy (b) for vertical direction using Welch’s test.
The RMS is calculated according to the square of vibration data; engine performance in the first case. In the second case, the engine
thus, more weight is automatically given to sudden peaks (shocks). runs smoother and generates less noise and vibration, which can
To compare the results in different methods, the kurtosis result the less engine part damaging. The results revealed that,
method was also used for evaluation of engine’s performance using RMS and kurtosis of the engine vibration increased by 12.9% and
the vibration signal (Eq. (12)), [37–39], 20.6% due to faulty injectors. Approximately, the similar results
h P i were obtained for all engine speeds.
N
1
N
ðt k Þ
k¼1 x
4
Welch test presents an overall comparison of vibration for
Kurt ¼ h i2 : ð12Þ
PN 2 faulty and healthy injectors. To study each cylinder individually
k¼1 x ðt k Þ
1
N in details, the mentioned STFT time-frequency method was applied
for each case using Eq. (6) and procedure presented in Section 2.2.3.
Kurtosis is known as a noise sensitive feature, there for in prac-
Fig. 7 shows this analysis for under load engine at rotational speeds
tice, preliminary treatments of the signal (band-pass filtering,
of 1800, 1900, 2000 rpm.
envelope detection) are essential in order to benefit fully from this
For faulty injectors, the dominant observed vibration frequen-
indicator [37–39].
cies were between both 0–10 kHz and with fewer intensities in
Fig. 6 shows the RMS and kurtosis values calculated by Eqs. (11)
range of 10–25 kHz (Fig. 7a). For healthy injectors, there were
and (12), respectively, for all three directions of vertical, lateral and
vibrations with very lower amplitude within the frequencies of
longitudinal at the all speeds, the RMS and kurtosis are higher for
10–25 kHz (Fig. 7b). This shows the engine runs smoother and
faulty injectors than the healthy mode. Higher value of kurtosis
combustion interval is short. Comparing the results from this sec-
indicates sharpness in time domain presentation and existence of
tion and earlier sections, we can conclude that no knock and poor
numerous shocks in signal (Fig. 6-b). This shows very erratic
performance were observed for engine cylinders. This proves that
precise timing and proper injection play an important role in pre-
Faulty Healthy venting the engine knocking. Carlucci et al. has explained that
(a)
injection pressure and injected quantities affect vibration signals.
100 Injection timing affects the engine block vibration in a less obvious
way [15]. It seems an untimely fuel injection and fuel dripping are
RMS
(a) (b)
Healthy-1800
Acceleraon (m/s ) Faulty-1800 rpm
2
Fig. 7. The STFT analysis for engine’ body vibration signal with faulty (a, c, e) and healthy (b, d, f) injectors in 1800, 1900, and 2000 rpm.
in several cylinders. It can be concluded that primary source of knocking on the vibration signals acquired by an accelerometer in
vibrations is knocking. Fig. 7b, d, and f shows the TFR diagram a spark ignition (SI) engine. The results showed that the proposed
for healthy injectors at1800, 1900, and 2000 rpm, respectively. knock detection approach is capable of monitor the engine status
Here, the vibrations with very lower amplitude are found within and intensity of knock [35]. Condition monitoring using air-borne
the frequency range of 10 and 25 kHz in diagrams, and engine acoustic signal is a useful approach due to this has rich informa-
works without any problems. However, in this case the combus- tion. However, the obstacles in this technic are the background
tion interval is more visible in the diagram due to accurately noise contamination, interferences and the number of internal-
injected fuel and more powerful ignitions in each cylinder in Fig. 7. combustion engine vibro-acoustic sources [34].
Other similar studies have been conducted on the engine vibra-
tion. For example, in a same study, the energy of 7–15 kHz fre- 3.3. WVD and CWD analysis
quency bands was varied according to the injection pressure in a
research by Albarbar et al. [31]. Jianmin et al. studied the fuel- WVD and CWD analysis were performed using Eq. (7) and Eq.
injection system of a diesel engine by analyzing the cylinder head (10), respectively, and procedure presented in 2.2.3 section. Fig. 8
vibrations which obtained almost the same results [33]. Siano and displays the TFR diagram using WVD method. This diagram has a
Agostino applied discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to detection of good resolution in time axis, but it is impossible to mark off the
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Fig. 8. The WVD analysis for engine’s body vibration signal with faulty (a, c, e) and healthy (b, d, f) injectors in 1800, 1900, and 2000 rpm.
frequency axis. Therefore, this technique is not capable of 3.4. Comparing the used analysis methods
identifying faults and knock clearly. Fig. 9 shows the TFR analysis
using CWD method. Compared to WVD methods, this method Comparing the three methods, namely STFT, WVD, and CWD for
presents a better resolution in the time axis as well in the fault detection showed that the STFT method is more reliable for
frequency axis, relatively. For example, cylinders with strong measuring the vibration characteristics in cylinders. Overall, STFT
combustion are visible in Fig. 9. This approach gives more weight is the fastest method, and CWD is a time-consuming method for
to the areas with higher energy compared to the WVD method. the TFR analysis. The average computing times in STFT, WVD,
CWD analysis has the resolution weakness compared with the STFT and CWD methods are 0.29, 0.54, and 3.25 s, respectively, for
in frequency axes. two cycles of engine working vibration signal. Using a simpler
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Fig. 9. The CWD analysis for engine’s body vibration signal with faulty (a, c, e) and healthy (b, d, f) injectors in 1800, 1900, and 2000 rpm.
algorithm, STFT is a suitable approach for online and off-line knock the most efficient method for such fault detection process. In
detection. healthy mode, the combustion and injectors work properly, cause
the high-amplitude vibrations in the range of frequencies from 0
to 10 kHz. Any fault in fuel-injection nozzles produces high-
4. Conclusions frequency components, higher that 10 kHz. For a healthy and accu-
rate fuel injection unit, the vibrations higher than 10 kHz were
This study presents fault detection process of diesel engine’s eliminated and. In total, STFT is a convenient method for identify-
injectors using time-frequency analysis of vibration signal. The ing knocking and faults in fuel injector nozzles for offline and on-
results showed that the Short-Term Fourier Transform (STFT) is line applications. With a fast algorithm and a reduced resolution,
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