An overview of methanol as an internal combustion engine fuel

Xudong Zhen and Yang Wang

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015, vol. 52, issue C, 477-493

Abstract: Methanol is an alternative, renewable, environmentally and economically attractive fuel; it is considered to be one of the most favorable fuels for conventional fossil-based fuels. Methanol has been recently used as an alternative to conventional fuels for internal combustion (IC) engines in order to satisfy some environmental and economical concerns. Because of a number of relatively large research projects that have been ongoing recently, much progress has been made that is worth reporting. This paper systematically describes the methanol productions, including the productions from coal, natural gas, coke-oven gas, hydrogen, biomass etc. It introduces the potentials of methanol as a renewable resource taking into account the world supply and demand, economic benefits and the effects on human health and the environment. Thirteen methods of application such as methanol/gasoline, methanol/diesel blends which can be used on the IC engines are summarized. Finally, this paper puts forward some new suggestions on the weakness in the researches of methanol engine.

Keywords: Methanol; Production; Application method; Internal combustion engine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.07.083

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