At present achieving fuel economy and reducing emissions are the two main targets set by the automotive industries. Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) technology is believed to be a promising one to be applied in both spark ignition (SI) and compression ignition (CI) engines in the...

The effect of DMF (2,5-dimethylfuran) on combustion and emissions were investigated on a diesel engine. Four different fuels, mixture of cetane and iso-cetane, n-heptane, DMF and mixture of DMF and EHN (2-ethylhexyl nitrate), were added into diesel fuel with 20% blending ratio by volume, denoted...