An experimental study was conducted to evaluate the suitability of biodiesel for on-road usage based on the engine-out responses of a light-duty diesel engine. Palm methyl ester (PME) was the biodiesel fuel used in this study. The experimental programme was conducted in two separate phases. In...

Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) combustion is a combustion concept which offers simultaneous reductions in both NOx and soot emissions from internal combustion engines. In light of increasingly stringent diesel emissions limits, research efforts have been invested into HCCI...

In the present study, in-cylinder diesel combustion simulation was performed with parallel processing on an Intel Xeon Quad-Core platform to allow both fluid dynamics and chemical kinetics of the surrogate diesel fuel model to be solved simultaneously on multiple processors. Here, Cartesian...

In this reported work, operating parameters affecting spatial evolution of combustion soot and the associated transport processes into crevice region in a light-duty diesel engine were appraised. Numerical computation of diesel combustion was undertaken by means of linking a plug-in chemistry...

In this paper, emissions formation process and its interaction with the combustion event are established for fossil diesel and the methyl esters of coconut (CME), palm (PME) and soy (SME) across three different engine conditions. Here, the OpenFOAM® open source CFD codes are utilised to...

This paper reports an artificial neural networks (ANN) modelling programme for a light-duty diesel engine powered using blends of various biodiesel fuels with conventional fossil diesel. ANN was used here to predict nine different engine-out responses, namely carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) study of light-duty automotive diesel engines affords invaluable insights into in-cylinder conditions and processes, which greatly expands on the very limited detail provided by engine-out measurements of exhaust emissions. For the simulation to be successful,...