TARGET Featured: DB4 Pump
TARGET Featured: DB4 Pump
TARGET Featured: DB4 Pump
with TARGET features since 1996 to assist our DB4 Model pump with TARGET Features
OEM customers in meeting stricter emission
regulations now in effect in many markets. As our
OEM applications change from “blue” (non-
emissions certified) to “green” (emissions certified),
the need for pumps with TARGET features has
increased.
TARGET Featured
DB4 Pump
Low Speed
Fuel Limiter
Pressure
Compensating
Transfer Pump
Figure 1 Figure 2
Another new feature designed to reduce exhaust The Low Speed Fuel Limiter feature uses an
emissions and smoke is the low speed fuel limiter. adjustable orifice screw and a fuel limiter piston to
The Low Speed Fuel Limiter is integral to the restrict the flow of fuel to the charging circuit during
hydraulic head assembly and provides a means to wide open throttle operation. Figures 1 and 2 show
reduce wide open throttle fuel delivery at speeds the locations of the adjustable orifice screw and fuel
below peak torque speed (generally below 1600 limiter piston.
ERPM). This is where there is insufficient air to burn
the normally injected fuel and is particularly true with At speeds below peak torque speed, transfer pump
turbocharged engines. pressure (shown in pink) is low, therefore the fuel
limiter piston remains seated in its bore restricting the
flow of fuel to the metering valve (reference Figure 3).
Fuel Flow Below Peak Torque Speed The only fuel that reaches the metering valve is the
fuel that flows past the adjustable orifice screw.
As engine speed increases, transfer pump pressure
also increases (speed responsive). The increased
Fuel Limiter Piston
Seated Restricting pressure overcomes the opposing forces (spring
fuel flow to the force and housing pressure) and the Fuel Limiter
metering valve Piston lifts allowing fuel to flow unrestricted to the
metering valve (reference Figure 4).
The graph below (Figure 5) shows the affect of the
low speed fuel limiter on the fuel delivery curve of a
typical pump application.
Figure 3
Fuel Delivery Curves
Low Speed Fuel Limiter vs. Baseline
Fuel Delivery mm3/stroke
Fuel Flow Above Peak Torque Speed 100
95
90
85
80
Piston lifted by
transfer pump 75
pressure allowing Baseline 70
fuel to flow Fuel Lim iter 65
unrestricted to the
60
metering valve
55
50
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Figure 4 Engine RPM Figure 5
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With the pressure compensating transfer pump The graphs below illustrate the effect of the pressure
design, the viscosity compensation orifice was compensating transfer pump. The “Standard
moved from the pressure adjusting screw to a Regulator” graph shows that as supply pressure
passage in the regulator assembly as shown above. varies so does transfer pump pressure. When the
The pressure adjusting screw is now solid, thereby pressure compensating regulator is used, variations
isolating supply fuel pressure from the transfer in supply pressure have virtually no effect on
pump. Fuel that now flows through the viscosity transfer pump pressure.
65 65
60 60
55 55
50 50
45 45
40 40
35 1 PSI 5 PSI 8 PSI 35 1 PSI 5 PSI 8 PSI
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Engine RPM Engine RPM