Combustion and Emission Characteristics of a Diesel Engine Fueled with Diesel–Rocket Propellant-3 Wide Distillation Blended Fuels
Publication: Journal of Energy Engineering
Volume 146, Issue 4
Abstract
In this work, three diesel–rocket propellant-3 wide distillation blended fuels (WDBF) including D80K20 [80% diesel and 20% rocket propellant-3 (RP3) by volume], D60K40, and D40K60 were prepared. The combustion and emission characteristics of neat diesel D100, D80K20, D60K40, and D40K60 were investigated in a single-cylinder diesel engine at four loads. In-cylinder pressure, fuel consumption, as well as all four emissions were experimentally measured. The results showed that the addition of RP3 in the WDBF led to longer ignition delay, shorter combustion duration, higher peak heat release rate (PHRR), and larger cumulative heat released percentage of premixed combustion phase; however, the values of maximum in-cylinder pressure and brake thermal efficiency (BTE) remained almost the same. In addition, the cyclic variations represented by the coefficient of variation (COV) of indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) became larger especially at low load conditions. In terms of engine emissions, the soot emissions remarkably reduced, while the emissions increased slightly. The total hydrocarbon (THC) emissions increased at four loads. The CO emissions increased at light loads and decreased at high loads.
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Data Availability Statement
Some or all data, models, or code generated or used during the study are available from the corresponding author by request.
Acknowledgments
Authors wish to express much appreciation for the funds from the Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (BK20150520).
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Volume 146 • Issue 4 • August 2020
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Received: Nov 3, 2019
Accepted: Feb 18, 2020
Published online: May 14, 2020
Published in print: Aug 1, 2020
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