Investigation of Engine Performance and Emission Characteristics of Si Engine Fuelled with Ethanol Blends by Numerical Simulation

2014 ◽  
Vol 1016 ◽  
pp. 597-601
Author(s):  
Ceyla Ozgur ◽  
Erdi Tosun ◽  
Tayfun Ozgur ◽  
Gökhan Tuccar ◽  
Kadi̇r Aydin

In this study the influences of ethanol addition to gasoline on an spark ignition engine performance and emissions were explored. AVL BOOST software was used to simulate the performance and emission characteristics of different ethanol-gasoline blends. The blended fuels contain 5%, 10% and 15% of ethanol by volume, and indicated as B95E5, B90E10, and B85E15, respectively. The results showed that ethanol addition to gasoline fuel improve combustion process, decrease CO emissions and reduce BSFC of the SI engine.

2015 ◽  
Vol 773-774 ◽  
pp. 430-434
Author(s):  
Azizul Mokhtar ◽  
Nazrul Atan ◽  
Najib Rahman ◽  
Amir Khalid

Bio-additive is biodegradable and produces less air pollution thus significant for replacing the limited fossil fuels and reducing threats to the environment from exhaust emissions and global warming. Instead, the bio-additives can remarkably improve the fuel economy SI engine while operating on all kinds of fuel. Some of the bio-additive has the ability to reduce the total CO2 emission from internal petrol engine. This review paper focuses to determine a new approach in potential of bio-additives blends operating with bio-petrol on performance and emissions of spark ignition engine. It is shown that the variant in bio-additives blending ratio and engine operational condition are reduced engine-out emissions and increased efficiency. It seems that the bio-additives can increase the maximum cylinder combustion pressure, improve exhaust emissions and largely reduce the friction coefficient. The review concludes that the additives usage in bio-petrol is inseparable for the better engine performance and emission control and further research is needed to develop bio-petrol specific additives.


RSC Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (34) ◽  
pp. 17787-17796 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. M. Rizwanul Fattah ◽  
M. A. Kalam ◽  
H. H. Masjuki ◽  
M. A. Wakil

This article studies the production and characterization of Malaysian Alexandrian laurel oil and the effect of common blends on engine performance and emissions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-394
Author(s):  
Karthikeyan Rangaraju ◽  
Neelakrishnan Subramanyan

Engine performance and emission characteristics were investigated using a single cylinder four-stroke diesel engine with different concentrated intermetallic-based Al–Fe–Mg–Si pistons. Three different alloy combinations (types A, B, and C) of Al–Fe–Mg–Si pistons were developed through the incremental alloying addition of Fe, Mg, Mn, Cu, and Ni. Piston types A, B, and C had Fe-rich intermetallic compounds (IMC), where types B and C had a higher density IMC distribution than type A. The influence of Fe, Mg, Mn, Cu, and Ni alloyed IMC pistons on engine performance and emissions was investigated at various loading conditions. Combustion characteristics such as cylinder pressure and net heat release rate for all piston types were investigated and compared. A similar duration of ignition was seen for all piston types. Frictional loss was reduced by ∼25% in types B and C in comparison to type A. Similarly, mechanical and thermal efficiency were enhanced considerably in types B and C compared to type A. Emission characteristics were also investigated for all piston types. Results showed that NOx was reduced by ∼17.3% with the use of types B and C.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Hasan ◽  
Oskar J. Haidn

AbstractThe Paris Agreement has highlighted the need in reducing carbon emissions. Attempts in using lower carbon fuels such as Propane gas have seen limited success, mainly due to liquid petroleum gas tanks structural/size limitations. A compromised solution is presented, by combusting Jet A fuel with a small fraction of Propane gas. Propane gas with its relatively faster overall igniting time, expedites the combustion process. Computational fluid dynamics software was used to demonstrate this solution, with results validated against physical engine data. Jet A fuel was combusted with different Propane gas dosing fractions. Results demonstrated that depending on specific propane gas dosing fractions emission reductions in ppm are; NOx from 84 to 41, CO2 from less than 18,372 to less than 15,865, escaping unburned fuels dropped from 11.4 (just Jet A) to 6.26e-2 (with a 0.2 fraction of Propane gas). Soot and CO increased, this is due to current combustion chamber air mixing design.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1441
Author(s):  
Farhad Salek ◽  
Meisam Babaie ◽  
Amin Shakeri ◽  
Seyed Vahid Hosseini ◽  
Timothy Bodisco ◽  
...  

This study aims to investigate the effect of the port injection of ammonia on performance, knock and NOx emission across a range of engine speeds in a gasoline/ethanol dual-fuel engine. An experimentally validated numerical model of a naturally aspirated spark-ignition (SI) engine was developed in AVL BOOST for the purpose of this investigation. The vibe two zone combustion model, which is widely used for the mathematical modeling of spark-ignition engines is employed for the numerical analysis of the combustion process. A significant reduction of ~50% in NOx emissions was observed across the engine speed range. However, the port injection of ammonia imposed some negative impacts on engine equivalent BSFC, CO and HC emissions, increasing these parameters by 3%, 30% and 21%, respectively, at the 10% ammonia injection ratio. Additionally, the minimum octane number of primary fuel required to prevent knock was reduced by up to 3.6% by adding ammonia between 5 and 10%. All in all, the injection of ammonia inside a bio-fueled engine could make it robust and produce less NOx, while having some undesirable effects on BSFC, CO and HC emissions.


Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cinzia Tornatore ◽  
Luca Marchitto ◽  
Maria Antonietta Costagliola ◽  
Gerardo Valentino

This study examines the effects of ethanol and gasoline injection mode on the combustion performance and exhaust emissions of a twin cylinder port fuel injection (PFI) spark ignition (SI) engine. Generally, when using gasoline–ethanol blends, alcohol and gasoline are externally mixed with a specified blending ratio. In this activity, ethanol and gasoline were supplied into the intake manifold into two different ways: through two separated low pressure fuel injection systems (Dual-Fuel, DF) and in a blend (mix). The ratio between ethanol and gasoline was fixed at 0.85 by volume (E85). The initial reference conditions were set running the engine with full gasoline at the knock limited spark advance boundary, according to the standard engine calibration. Then E85 was injected and a spark timing sweep was carried out at rich, stoichiometric, and lean conditions. Engine performance and gaseous and particle exhaust emissions were measured. Adding ethanol could remove over-fueling with an increase in thermal efficiency without engine load penalties. Both ethanol and charge leaning resulted in a lowering of CO, HC, and PN emissions. DF injection promoted a faster evaporation of gasoline than in blend, shortening the combustion duration with a slight increase in THC and PN emissions compared to the mix mode.


Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1214
Author(s):  
Farhad Salek ◽  
Meisam Babaie ◽  
Maria Dolores Redel-Macias ◽  
Ali Ghodsi ◽  
Seyed Vahid Hosseini ◽  
...  

It has been proven that vehicle emissions such as oxides of nitrogen (NOx) are negatively affecting the health of human beings as well as the environment. In addition, it was recently highlighted that air pollution may result in people being more vulnerable to the deadly COVID-19 virus. The use of biofuels such as E5 and E10 as alternatives of gasoline fuel have been recommended by different researchers. In this paper, the impacts of port injection of water to a spark ignition engine fueled by gasoline, E5 and E10 on its performance and NOx production have been investigated. The experimental work was undertaken using a KIA Cerato engine and the results were used to validate an AVL BOOST model. To develop the numerical analysis, design of experiment (DOE) method was employed. The results showed that by increasing the ethanol fraction in gasoline/ethanol blend, the brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) improved between 2.3% and 4.5%. However, the level of NOx increased between 22% to 48%. With port injection of water up to 8%, there was up to 1% increase in engine power whereas NOx and BSFC were reduced by 8% and 1%, respectively. The impacts of simultaneous changing of the start of combustion (SOC) and water injection rate on engine power and NOx production was also investigated. It was found that the NOx concentration is very sensitive to SOC variation.


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