Determination of light extinction efficiency of diesel soot from smoke opacity measurements

An experimental method for the indirect determination of the light extinction efficiency of the exhaust gas emitted by diesel engines is proposed in this paper, based on the simultaneous measurement of spot opacity and continuous opacity, together with the double modelling of the associated soot concentration. The first model simulates the projection of a differently sized soot particle population enclosed in an exhaust gas sample on the filter of a spot opacimeter. The second one simulates the light extinction caused by the soot particles flowing in the exhaust gas stream in an online continuous opacimeter, on the basis of the Beer–Lambert law. This method is an alternative to other theoretical or semi-empirical complex methods which have proved to be inadequate in the case of soot agglomerates. The application of this method to a set of experimental smoke measurements from a commercial light-duty DI diesel engine typical of vehicle road transportation permitted us to draw conclusions about the effect of different engine conditions on the mean light extinction efficiency of the soot particles flowing in the raw exhaust gas stream.

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