Control of diesel engine dual-loop EGR air-path systems by a singular perturbation method

This paper presents a singular perturbation based method for controlling the dual-loop exhaust gas recirculation (DL-EGR) air-path systems on advanced diesel engines. A DL-EGR air-path system, consisting of a high-pressure loop EGR (HPL-EGR) and a low-pressure loop EGR (LPL-EGR), has significantly different time-scales (fast and slow) due to the inherent difference in the HPL-EGR’s and LPL-EGR’s corresponding control volumes. Such a feature of …