Study on combustion and emission characteristics of Polyoxymethylene Dimethyl Ethers/diesel blends in light-duty and heavy-duty diesel engines

Haoye Liu, Zhi Wang, Jun Zhang, Jianxin Wang and Shijin Shuai

Applied Energy, 2017, vol. 185, issue P2, 1393-1402

Abstract: Diesel and Polyoxymethylene Dimethyl Ethers (PODE3–4)/diesel blends with 10–30% PODE3–4 by volume were tested in a light-duty (LD) direct injection diesel engine without any modifications on the engine fuel supply system. Engine performance, combustion and emission characteristics were compared at various loads. The results show that diesel engines are able to work normally fueled by blend fuel ratio with lower than 30% PODE3–4. Adding PODE3–4 improve engine efficiency and reduce soot and CO emissions significantly without a serious impact on NOx emissions. P20 is the optimal choice among these blends because it has much lower soot emissions than diesel and P10 and slightly lower NOx emissions than P30. The European Stationary Cycle (ESC) was also carried out in a six-cylinder heavy-duty (HD) production diesel engine fueled with pure diesel and P20, and the results were similar to those of the LD engine. It is proved that PODE3–4, of which the mass production has been achieved recently, is a promising additive component for diesel fuel.

Keywords: PODEn; Diesel engine; Combustion and emissions; Efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (20)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261915014336
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:appene:v:185:y:2017:i:p2:p:1393-1402

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/405891/bibliographic
http://www.elsevier. ... 405891/bibliographic

DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.10.183

Access Statistics for this article

Applied Energy is currently edited by J. Yan

More articles in Applied Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().