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Fuel property effects on PCCI combustion in a heavy-duty diesel engine / Cosmin E. Dumitrescu in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power, Vol. 134 N° 5 (Mai 2012) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power > Vol. 134 N° 5 (Mai 2012) . - 09 p. Titre : Fuel property effects on PCCI combustion in a heavy-duty diesel engine Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Cosmin E. Dumitrescu, Auteur ; W. Stuart Neill, Auteur ; Hongsheng Guo, Auteur Année de publication : 2012 Article en page(s) : 09 p. Note générale : Génie mécanique Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Air  pollution  control  Brakes  Combustion  Diesel  engines  Distillation  Engine  cylinders  Fuel  systems  Ignition Index. décimale : 620.1 Essais des matériaux. Défauts des matériaux. Protection des matériaux Résumé : An experimental study was performed to investigate fuel property effects on premixed charge compression ignition (PCCI) combustion in a heavy-duty diesel engine. A matrix of research diesel fuels designed by the Coordinating Research Council, referred to as the Fuels for Advanced Combustion Engines (FACE), was used. The fuel matrix design covers a wide range of cetane numbers (30 to 55), 90% distillation temperatures (270 to 340 °C) and aromatics content (20 to 45%). The fuels were tested in a single-cylinder Caterpillar diesel engine equipped with a common-rail fuel injection system. The engine was operated at 900 rpm, a relative air/fuel ratio of 1.2 and 60% exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) for all fuels. The study was limited to a single fuel injection event starting between −30° and 0 °CA after top dead center (aTDC) with a rail pressure of 150 MPa. The brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) ranged from 2.6 to 3.1 bar depending on the fuel and its injection timing. The experimental results show that cetane number was the most important fuel property affecting PCCI combustion behavior. The low cetane number fuels had better brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) due to more optimized combustion phasing and shorter combustion duration. They also had a longer ignition delay period available for premixing, which led to near-zero soot emissions. The two fuels with high cetane number and high 90% distillation temperature produced significant soot emissions. The two fuels with high cetane number and high aromatics produced the highest brake specific NOx emissions, although the absolute values were below 0.1 g/kW-h. Brake specific HC and CO emissions were primarily a function of the combustion phasing, but the low cetane number fuels had slightly higher HC and lower CO emissions than the high cetane number fuels. DEWEY : 620.1 ISSN : 0742-4795 En ligne : http://asmedl.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JETPEZ000134000005 [...] [article] Fuel property effects on PCCI combustion in a heavy-duty diesel engine [texte imprimé] / Cosmin E. Dumitrescu, Auteur ; W. Stuart Neill, Auteur ; Hongsheng Guo, Auteur . - 2012 . - 09 p. Génie mécanique Langues : Anglais (eng) in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power > Vol. 134 N° 5 (Mai 2012) . - 09 p. Mots-clés : Air  pollution  control  Brakes  Combustion  Diesel  engines  Distillation  Engine  cylinders  Fuel  systems  Ignition Index. décimale : 620.1 Essais des matériaux. Défauts des matériaux. Protection des matériaux Résumé : An experimental study was performed to investigate fuel property effects on premixed charge compression ignition (PCCI) combustion in a heavy-duty diesel engine. A matrix of research diesel fuels designed by the Coordinating Research Council, referred to as the Fuels for Advanced Combustion Engines (FACE), was used. The fuel matrix design covers a wide range of cetane numbers (30 to 55), 90% distillation temperatures (270 to 340 °C) and aromatics content (20 to 45%). The fuels were tested in a single-cylinder Caterpillar diesel engine equipped with a common-rail fuel injection system. The engine was operated at 900 rpm, a relative air/fuel ratio of 1.2 and 60% exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) for all fuels. The study was limited to a single fuel injection event starting between −30° and 0 °CA after top dead center (aTDC) with a rail pressure of 150 MPa. The brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) ranged from 2.6 to 3.1 bar depending on the fuel and its injection timing. The experimental results show that cetane number was the most important fuel property affecting PCCI combustion behavior. The low cetane number fuels had better brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) due to more optimized combustion phasing and shorter combustion duration. They also had a longer ignition delay period available for premixing, which led to near-zero soot emissions. The two fuels with high cetane number and high 90% distillation temperature produced significant soot emissions. The two fuels with high cetane number and high aromatics produced the highest brake specific NOx emissions, although the absolute values were below 0.1 g/kW-h. Brake specific HC and CO emissions were primarily a function of the combustion phasing, but the low cetane number fuels had slightly higher HC and lower CO emissions than the high cetane number fuels. DEWEY : 620.1 ISSN : 0742-4795 En ligne : http://asmedl.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JETPEZ000134000005 [...]

The effect of iso-octane addition on combustion and emission characteristics of a HCCI engine fueled with n-heptane / Cosmin E. Dumitrescu in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power, Vol. 133 N° 11 (Novembre 2011) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power > Vol. 133 N° 11 (Novembre 2011) . - 07 p. Titre : The effect of iso-octane addition on combustion and emission characteristics of a HCCI engine fueled with n-heptane Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Cosmin E. Dumitrescu, Auteur ; Hongsheng Guo, Auteur ; Vahid Hosseini, Auteur Année de publication : 2012 Article en page(s) : 07 p. Note générale : Génie Mécanique Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Air  pollution  Combustion  Fuel  Ignition  Internal  combustion  engines Index. décimale : 620.1 Essais des matériaux. Défauts des matériaux. Protection des matériaux Résumé : This paper investigates the effects of iso-octane addition on the combustion and emission characteristics of a single-cylinder, variable compression ratio, homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine fueled with n-heptane. The engine was operated with four fuel blends containing up to 50% iso-octane by liquid volume at 900 rpm, 50:1 air-to-fuel ratio, no exhaust gas recirculation, and an intake mixture temperature of 30°C. A detailed analysis of the regulated and unregulated emissions was performed including validation of the experimental results using a multizone model with detailed fuel chemistry. The results show that iso-octane addition reduced HCCI combustion efficiency and retarded the combustion phasing. The range of engine compression ratios where satisfactory HCCI combustion occurred was found to narrow with increasing iso-octane percentage in the fuel. NOx emissions increased with iso-octane addition at advanced combustion phasing, but the influence of iso-octane addition was negligible once CA50 (crank angle position at which 50% heat is released) was close to or after top dead center. The total unburned hydrocarbons (THC) in the exhaust consisted primarily of alkanes, alkenes, and oxygenated hydrocarbons. The percentage of alkanes, the dominant class of THC emissions, was found to be relatively constant. The alkanes were composed primarily of unburned fuel compounds, and iso-octane addition monotonically increased and decreased the iso-octane and n-heptane percentages in the THC emissions, respectively. The percentage of alkenes in the THC was not significantly affected by iso-octane addition. Iso-octane addition increased the percentage of oxygenated hydrocarbons. Small quantities of cycloalkanes and aromatics were detected when the iso-octane percentage was increased beyond 30%. DEWEY : 620.1 ISSN : 0742-4795 En ligne : http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JETPEZ00013 [...] [article] The effect of iso-octane addition on combustion and emission characteristics of a HCCI engine fueled with n-heptane [texte imprimé] / Cosmin E. Dumitrescu, Auteur ; Hongsheng Guo, Auteur ; Vahid Hosseini, Auteur . - 2012 . - 07 p. Génie Mécanique Langues : Anglais (eng) in Transactions of the ASME . Journal of engineering for gas turbines and power > Vol. 133 N° 11 (Novembre 2011) . - 07 p. Mots-clés : Air  pollution  Combustion  Fuel  Ignition  Internal  combustion  engines Index. décimale : 620.1 Essais des matériaux. Défauts des matériaux. Protection des matériaux Résumé : This paper investigates the effects of iso-octane addition on the combustion and emission characteristics of a single-cylinder, variable compression ratio, homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine fueled with n-heptane. The engine was operated with four fuel blends containing up to 50% iso-octane by liquid volume at 900 rpm, 50:1 air-to-fuel ratio, no exhaust gas recirculation, and an intake mixture temperature of 30°C. A detailed analysis of the regulated and unregulated emissions was performed including validation of the experimental results using a multizone model with detailed fuel chemistry. The results show that iso-octane addition reduced HCCI combustion efficiency and retarded the combustion phasing. The range of engine compression ratios where satisfactory HCCI combustion occurred was found to narrow with increasing iso-octane percentage in the fuel. NOx emissions increased with iso-octane addition at advanced combustion phasing, but the influence of iso-octane addition was negligible once CA50 (crank angle position at which 50% heat is released) was close to or after top dead center. The total unburned hydrocarbons (THC) in the exhaust consisted primarily of alkanes, alkenes, and oxygenated hydrocarbons. The percentage of alkanes, the dominant class of THC emissions, was found to be relatively constant. The alkanes were composed primarily of unburned fuel compounds, and iso-octane addition monotonically increased and decreased the iso-octane and n-heptane percentages in the THC emissions, respectively. The percentage of alkenes in the THC was not significantly affected by iso-octane addition. Iso-octane addition increased the percentage of oxygenated hydrocarbons. Small quantities of cycloalkanes and aromatics were detected when the iso-octane percentage was increased beyond 30%. DEWEY : 620.1 ISSN : 0742-4795 En ligne : http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JETPEZ00013 [...]