Effects of argon dilution on the thermal efficiency and exhaust emissions of a NG engine

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 721-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. F. Li ◽  
Z. C. Liu ◽  
J. Tian ◽  
Z. S. Wang ◽  
Y. Xu
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. H16-H20
Author(s):  
A.V.N.S. Kiran ◽  
B. Ramanjaneyulu ◽  
M. Lokanath M. ◽  
S. Nagendra ◽  
G.E. Balachander

An increase in fuel utilization to internal combustion engines, variation in gasoline price, reduction of the fossil fuels and natural resources, needs less carbon content in fuel to find an alternative fuel. This paper presents a comparative study of various gasoline blends in a single-cylinder two-stroke SI engine. The present experimental investigation with gasoline blends of butanol and propanol and magnesium partially stabilized zirconium (Mg-PSZ) as thermal barrier coating on piston crown of 100 µm. The samples of gasoline blends were blended with petrol in 1:4 ratios: 20 % of butanol and 80 % of gasoline; 20 % of propanol and 80 % of gasoline. In this work, the following engine characteristics of brake thermal efficiency (BTH), specific fuel consumption (SFC), HC, and CO emissions were measured for both coated and non-coated pistons. Experiments have shown that the thermal efficiency is increased by 2.2 % at P20. The specific fuel consumption is minimized by 2.2 % at P20. Exhaust emissions are minimized by 2.0 % of HC and 2.4 % of CO at B20. The results strongly indicate that the combination of thermal barrier coatings and gasoline blends can improve engine performance and reduce exhaust emissions.


2011 ◽  
Vol 110-116 ◽  
pp. 1368-1373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amar P. Pandhare ◽  
S. G. Wagholikar ◽  
R. B. Jadhav Sachin Musale ◽  
A. S. Padalkar

The heterogeneous catalyst are environment friendly and render the process simplified. A wide variety of solid bases have been examined for this process. The present work reports the use of hydrotalcite catalyst for the synthesis of Biodiesel from jatropha oil. An experimental investigation has been carried out to analyze the performance and emission characteristics of a compression ignition engine fuelled with Jatropha oil and its blends (10%, 20%, 40%, 50%, and 60 % ) with mineral diesel. The effect of temperature on the viscosity of Jatropha oil has also been investigated. A series of engine tests, have been conducted using each of the above fuel blends for comparative performance evaluation. The performance parameters evaluated include thermal efficiency, brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC), brake specific energy consumption (BSEC), and exhaust gas temperature whereas exhaust emissions include mass emissions of CO, HC, NO. These parameters were evaluated in a single cylinder compression ignition diesel engine. The results of the experiment in each case were compared with baseline data of mineral diesel. Significant improvements have been observed in the performance parameters of the engine as well as exhaust emissions. The gaseous emissions of oxide of nitrogen from all blends are lower than mineral diesel at all engine loads. Jatropha oil blends with diesel (up to 50% v/v) can replace diesel for operating the CI engines giving lower emissions and improved engine performance. More over results indicated that B20 have closer performance to diesel and B100 have lower brake thermal efficiency mainly due to its high viscosity compared to diesel.


2020 ◽  
pp. 146808742097801
Author(s):  
Noboru Uchida

Cylinder wall heat insulation using thermal barrier coatings is both an old and new thermal efficiency improvement technology for internal combustion engines. This review first outlines the history of thermal barrier coating (TBC) technologies applied to reciprocating engines from the 1970s up to the present day, by referring to several distinctive reference papers. These research efforts, however, present a number of conflicting conclusions. In order to understand why the results did not always coincide, certain key features of TBC’s studied in the reference papers were then investigated in more detail, such as thermal properties, porosity, surface roughness, and translucence/emissivity. The studies of not only the effect of TBC’s on diesel exhaust emissions, but TBC effects on gasoline and HCCI performance and exhaust emissions, are also reviewed for the investigation of manifold TBC characteristics. Finally, state of the art techniques and constraints were reviewed for experimental and numerical analysis of the heat transfer mechanism, which should be applied to TBC research.


2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 1196-1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gyeung Ho Choi ◽  
Sung Bin Han ◽  
Yon Jong Chung

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4A) ◽  
Author(s):  
İlker Örs ◽  
◽  
Murat Ciniviz ◽  
Bahar Sayin Kul ◽  
Ali Kahraman ◽  
...  

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the effects of a diesel-biodiesel blend (B20) and a diesel-biodiesel-bioethanol blend (BE5) on combustion parameters in addition to engine performance and exhaust emissions compared with diesel fuel. Parameters included in the evaluation was brake specific fuel consumption, brake thermal efficiency, CO, CO2, HC, NOx, smoke opacity emissions and finally cylinder pressure, heat release rate, ignition delay, some key points of the combustion phases such as start of ignition, start of combustion, CA50 and CA90 and combustion duration. Engine tests were conducted at different injection pressures of 170 bar, 190 bar, which is the original injection pressure, and 220 bar by the engine being loaded by 25, 50, 75 and 100% for the assessment of engine performance and exhaust emissions. For combustion evaluation, the data obtained at 1400 rpm, maximum torque-speed, and 2800 rpm, maximum power-speed were used, while the injection pressures were set to 170, 190 and 220 bar under full load condition. According to test results, the better performance characteristics, exhaust emissions and combustion behaviour of engine were obtained with the use of BE5 at high injection pressure. So, BE5 fuel improved brake specific fuel consumption by about 7% and brake thermal efficiency by about 6% compared to B20. In addition, while the emission values of BE5 gave better results than diesel fuel, it reduced the NOx and smoke emissions of B20 by approximately 1.4% and 6.4% respectively. Moreover, it has achieved a reduction in smoke emission of up to 45% compared to diesel fuel.


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