Potential of e-Fischer Tropsch diesel and oxymethyl-ether (OMEx) as fuels for the dual-mode dual-fuel concept

Antonio García, Javier Monsalve-Serrano, David Villalta, Rafael Lago Sari, Victor Gordillo Zavaleta and Patrick Gaillard

Applied Energy, 2019, vol. 253, issue C, -

Abstract: The dual-mode dual-fuel combustion strategy allows operating over the entire engine map by implementing a diffusive dual-fuel combustion at high engine loads. This requires increasing the amount of exhaust gas recirculation to control the NOx emissions, which penalizes the soot levels. At these conditions, the use of non-sooting fuels as the e-Fischer Tropsch Diesel (e-FT) and oxymethylene dimethyl ethers (OMEx) could be a potential way to avoid the NOx-soot trade-off. The experimental results acquired in a compression ignition multi-cylinder medium-duty engine evidence that the higher oxygen content of OMEx allows reducing the soot emissions at high loads to near zero levels, while e-FT promotes a soot reduction of around 20% as compared to diesel. Nonetheless, the low lower heating value of OMEx leads to excessive injection durations, enlarging the combustion process and increasing the fuel consumption around 1.3–7.2% and 1.4–5.3% as compared to diesel and e-FT, respectively, depending on the engine load. Finally, the well to wheel analysis confirms the potential in reducing the carbon dioxide footprint of OMEx (14.8–69%) and e-FT (0.3–38.5%) compared to diesel, as they can be synthetized via direct air capture as a source of carbon and using renewable energy.

Keywords: Dual-fuel combustion; Emissions; Soot reduction; Oxygenated fuels; Synthetic fuels (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113622

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