Combustion and emission characteristics of a turbo-charged common rail diesel engine fuelled with diesel-biodiesel-DEE blends

doi:10.1007/s11708-011-0138-x

Front Energ

2011, Vol. 5

Issue (1) : 104-114 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-011-0138-x

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Combustion and emission characteristics of a turbo-charged common rail diesel engine fuelled with diesel-biodiesel-DEE blends

Ni ZHANG, Zuohua HUANG(

), Xiangang WANG, Bin ZHENG

State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

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Abstract

The combustion and emission characteristics of a turbo-charged, common rail diesel engine fuelled with diesel-biodiesel-DEE blends were investigated. The study reports that the brake-specific fuel consumption of diesel-biodiesel-DEE blends increases with increase of oxygenated fuel fractions in the blends. Brake thermal efficiency shows little variation when operating on different diesel-biodiesel-DEE blends. At a low load, the NO_x emission of the diesel-biodiesel-DEE blends exhibits little variation in comparison with the biodiesel fraction. The NO_x emission slightly increases with increase in the biodiesel fraction in diesel-biodiesel-DEE blends at medium load. However, the NO_x emission increases remarkably with increase of the biodiesel fraction at high load. Particle mass concentration decreases significantly with increase of the oxygenated-fuels fraction at all engine speeds and loads; particle number concentration decreases remarkably with increase of the oxygenated-fuels fraction. HC and CO emissions decrease with increasing oxygenated-fuels fraction in these blends.

Keywords Combustion particulate emissions diesel-biodiesel-DEE blend diesel engine

Corresponding Author(s): HUANG Zuohua,Email:zhhuang@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

Issue Date: 05 March 2011

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Ni ZHANG,Zuohua HUANG,Xiangang WANG, et al. Combustion and emission characteristics of a turbo-charged common rail diesel engine fuelled with diesel-biodiesel-DEE blends[J]. Front Energ, 2011, 5(1): 104-114.

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Fig.1 Schematic diagram of the experimental setup

Tab.1 Specifications of the engine

Tab.2 Specifications of ELPI

Tab.3 Specifications of fuels 4.269

Fig.2 BSFC versus biodiesel percentage at different speeds and loads
(a) When engine speed is 1600 r/min; (b) when engine speed is 2600 r/min

Fig.3 BTE versus biodiesel percentage at different speeds and loads
(a) When engine speed is 1600 r/min; (b) when engine speed is 2600 r/min

Fig.4 NO versus biodiesel percentage at different speeds and loads

Fig.5 Cylinder pressure and NHRR versus crank angle at different speeds and loads

Fig.6 Total mass concentration versus biodiesel percentage at different speeds and loads

Fig.7 DN/DlogDp versus Dp at different speeds and loads

Fig.8 Total number concentration versus biodiesel percentage at different speeds and loads

Fig.9 HC emissions versus biodiesel percentage at different speeds and loads

Fig.10 CO emissions versus biodiesel percentage at different speeds and loads

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