SYSTEM OF SUPPLYING THE ADDITIVE COMPONENT TO THE CYLINDER OF THE DIESEL ENGINE
A working diesel engine is an intense source of atmospheric air pollution with toxic substances contained in exhaust gases. This problem was repeatedly raised by the Marine Environment Protection Committee at the headquarters of the International Maritime Organization which is responsible for strengthening stability and security of navigation of merchant ships and for preventing sea pollution from ships. The article proposes the way to solve the problem, namely, to equip a ship diesel with a system that will allow the additional component to be delivered directly to the cylinder of the diesel engine, thereby reducing the content of harmful substances from exhausted gases. Having analyzed the existing systems that were successfully applied in practice, there have been shown strong and weak points of the developed system, as well as its distinguishing features. Accurate feeding of the additional component and monitoring of the main characteristics of the diesel is carried out thanks to the developed electronic control unit, which in turn receives the necessary signals from various sensors mounted on the diesel engine. All the components of the installation form, as a result, one common system, but it should be noted that functionally the system under consideration is only accessory. Getting reliable results has become possible due to using the latest electronic components and integrating them with diesel elements.