Vibration analysis of turbocharger in different clogging conditions of Diesel Particle Filter (DPF)

In diesel engines, for reasons such as increasing power and efficiency, reducing volume, reducing weight and increasing combustion quality, it is very common to employ a turbocharger. One of the most common problems in diesel engines is the absorption of soot particles in the turbocharger outlet, which clogged after a while. The blocked filter prevent to exhaust the gases with required flow rate, as a result, the back pressure and temperature of exhaust gases increase. This factor causes the turbocharger to be located near the unstable operating range and these factors expected to change the vibration behavior of this set. In this study, by creating several levels of soot particle clogging at 2500 and 3200 RPM, the turbocharger vibration signal was stored. Using this non-destructive method, more accurate data obtained to perform active Regeneration than the conventional method. Employing fast Fourier transform on stored time signal and filtering expected range of the signal, the turbocharger operating frequencies were determined and by extracting the frequency domain characteristics and comparing them, it observed that the power spectrum density and spectral flux had a resolution of approx. It has 4 times more than other features in indexing this event. In addition, as the engine speed increases, the soot filter clogging has a greater effect on the vibration behavior of the turbocharger.