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Over the past two decades there has been a considerable effort to develop and introduce alternative transportation fuels to replace conventional fuels, gasoline and diesel. Environmental issues are the principal driving forces behind this effort. To date the bulk of research has focused on the...
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Biodiesel is a promising fuel for diesel engines in wake of its renewable nature and environmental benefits. Biodiesel can be produced by different pathways; however, glycerol (or glycerin, glycerin) is a valuable by-product which is formed during this process. As mandates are being enforced by...
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The paper evaluates and discusses the combustion characteristics of electrolytically produced stoichiometric hydrogen …-oxygen mixtures under constant volume adiabatic conditions. The results will be used in the preliminary design of a combustion chamber … of a hydrogen-oxygen fuelled engine. Maximum combustion pressures are investigated and compared to theoretical …
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momentous improvement in performance and combustion parameters has been observed. The study also attempts to explain the …
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-law efficiency, due to fundamental differences in the mechanism of entropy generation during combustion with respect to the usual … confirmation of results provided in earlier work by the authors that combustion irreversibilities during hydrogen combustion can be … is invoked for combustion calculations. For the description of engine processes, such as fuel preparation and heat …
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An experimental investigation was conducted on the combustion, performance, regulated and unregulated emissions of a … to high loads. At 90% load, abnormal combustion occurs with more than 30% hydrogen addition as indicated by the drastic … increase of peak heat release rate, shortened ignition delay and combustion duration. CO/CO2 and seven kinds of unregulated …
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Because of the low combustion temperature and high throttling loss, SI (spark-ignited) engines always encounter dropped …
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internal combustion engines and as a fuel cell in vehicles. To use hydrogen as a fuel of internal combustion engine, engine … design should be considered for avoiding abnormal combustion. As a result it can improve engine efficiency, power output and …
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In order to increase the efficiency of waste utilization in thermal conversion processes, pre-treatment is advantageous. With the Herhof Stabilat® process, residual domestic waste is upgraded to waste-derived fuel by means of biological drying and mechanical separation of inerts and metals. The...
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This paper compared the effects of hydrogen and hydrogen–oxygen blends (hydroxygen) additions on the performance of a gasoline engine at 1400 rpm and a manifolds absolute pressure of 61.5 kPa. The tests were carried out on a 1.6 L gasoline engine equipped with a hydrogen and oxygen...
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