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A comparative study on alcohol-diesel blended fuels in a common rail diesel engine: Combined effects of carbon numbers, oxygen content, and molecular structure
- Source :
- Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy. 236:124-136
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2021.
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Abstract
- Abundant alcohols, including ethanol, propanol, butanol, and pentanol, are expected to be used in compression ignition engines to ease the shortages of fossil fuel. The various alcohols have quite a different combustion and emission characteristics in the engine due to the changes in molecular structures. In this paper, a series of experiments were conducted on a modified common-rail diesel engine fueled with diesel/alcohols blended fuels in a wide operating range. The effects of alcohol chain length, oxygen content, and molecular structure on engine combustion and emission characteristics are studied systematically. The experimental results show that the blending of alcohols increases the peak values of in-cylinder pressure and maximum pressure rising rate. Besides, the combustion duration and ignition delay are mainly affected by oxygen content and isomer structure. The addition of short-chain alcohols will significantly reduce the total mass of particulate matter (PM) emissions, while the CO and HC emissions increase appropriately. The CO, HC, aldehydes, and ethylene emissions are mainly affected by carbon chain length and isomer structure. For PM emissions, the carbon chain length, molecular structure, and oxygen content of alcohol fuels have different influences on PM number, PM mass, and particle size distributions. The shorter carbon chain of alcohol leads to smaller particle size, and higher oxygen content leads to lower total particle mass.
- Subjects :
- Common rail
business.industry
020209 energy
Mechanical Engineering
Butanol
Fossil fuel
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Alcohol
02 engineering and technology
Diesel engine
Pulp and paper industry
law.invention
Propanol
Ignition system
chemistry.chemical_compound
Diesel fuel
020401 chemical engineering
chemistry
law
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Environmental science
0204 chemical engineering
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20412967 and 09576509
- Volume :
- 236
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........bc91edf9d84472e567257b0df38928d4