Experimental and numerical study of pre-injection effects on diesel-n-butanol blends combustion

Haozhong Huang, Zhaojun Zhu, Jizhen Zhu, Delin Lv, Yuping Pan, Hongling Wei and Wenwen Teng

Applied Energy, 2019, vol. 249, issue C, 377-391

Abstract: A trade-off inevitably exists between soot and NOX emissions in a traditional engine. The addition of an oxygen-containing biofuel can decrease the soot emission but increase the NOX emission. Multi-injection strategy can be used to decrease the NOX emission. Therefore, both simulations and experimental tests were conducted to evaluate the influences of pre-injection on the combustion and emission characteristics of pure diesel (D100) and diesel/n-butanol (30% n-butanol and 70% diesel by volume, B30). The results showed that as the pre-injection interval decreased, the in-cylinder pressure peak increased, the pre-injection heat release ratio increased, and the brake-specific fuel consumption (BSFC) decreased. Only at a small pre-injection interval, the BSFC under pre-injection condition was lower than that obtained using the single injection strategy. When the same pre-injection strategy was used, B30 had a higher BSFC and lower brake thermal efficiency than D100. The soot emission decreased with the increase in pre-injection interval but increased with the increase in pre-injection ratio. More soot was emitted using the pre-injection strategy than that using single injection strategy. B30 had a lower soot emission than D100 due to a longer ignition delay. As the pre-injection interval increased, the decreasing amplitude of NO production became smaller than the increasing amplitude of NO2 production, thus increasing the net NOX emission. As the pre-injection ratio increased, more CO was produced through the reaction paths CH2O → HCO → CO, whereas the transformation of CO to CO2 almost remained unchanged, thus increasing the net CO emission. The increase in pre-injection ratio inhibited the oxidation of CO to CO2 and thus increased the CO emission. The amount of unburned hydrocarbons increased with the increase in both pre-injection ratio and interval.

Keywords: Pre-injection; Diesel/n-butanol blends; CFD; Low-temperature combustion; Chemical kinetics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.04.163

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