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Old 03-14-2008, 09:55 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Electronic Fuel Injection Theory

Ultimately, the purpose of any internal combustion engine fuel system is to ensure that the proper amount of fuel and air are mixed, such that the intended Air/Fuel Ratio is present inside the combustion chamber at the point of ignition.

In a spark-ignition engine, the driver control is a throttle plate that varies the amount of air currently admitted into the engine. As such, the EFI system must measure the amount of air in the current cylinder charge, and then add the proper amount of fuel.

(A compression-ignition engine, like a diesel, has no throttle plate, and the user control is the amount of fuel injected)

As the reacting of fuel with air is effectively chemistry, the important measurements are the mass of fuel and the mass of air in the current cylinder charge.

Fuel, being a liquid, has a fairly consistant density, and so can be measured by volume with reasonable accuracy. Injectors can be rated by mass flow or by volume flow and the relationship is constant for fuel of known density, and the range of possible fuel densities is small enough to make little effective difference to the state of tune of a street-driven engine.

Air, being a gas, is much more sensitive to environmental differences, which means that an accurate air mass estimate must be made.

There are two main mechanisms for estimating charge air mass:
  • Speed/Density; and
  • Mass/Air.
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