In the paper, combustion and emissions of a multi-cylinder CI (compression-ignition) engine fueled with DMF–diesel, n-butanol–diesel and gasoline–diesel blends were experimentally investigated, and fuel characteristics of DMF, n-butanol and gasoline were compared. Diesel was used as the...

Compared with ethanol or methanol, butanol has higher heating value and higher miscibility. Because of lower cetane number of butanol, butanol-diesel blends are more suitable for diesel low temperature combustion (LTC). In the paper, experimental study was carried out on a modified single...

The effects of fuel properties and oxygenated structures on the combustion and emissions were investigated on a diesel engine. Five different fuels, n-heptane, iso-octane, n-butanol, 2-butanol and methyl octynoate, were added into diesel fuel with the same blending ratio (20% v/v), referred to...

The combustion and emissions of n-butanol/biodiesel dual-fuel injection were investigated on a diesel engine based on experiments and simulations. n-Butanol was injected into the intake port, while soybean biodiesel was directly injected into the cylinder. Three different premixed ratios (rp)...

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...

The experiments were performed using a modified six-cylinder turbocharged direct injection diesel engine with diesel of different distillation ranges to investigate the effects of (exhaust gas recirculation) EGR on engine performance and emission characteristics of low-temperature combustion...

In recent years, the transition from gasoline to heavy fuel has received more and more attention in the application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This study aims to convert a two-stroke port fuel injection (PFI) gasoline engine as the prototype engine to a direct injection (DI) aviation...

This paper introduces an integrated approach for the reduction of large chemical kinetic mechanisms. This approach consists of three main steps. In the first step, the DRG (directed relation graph with species- specific error threshold) method is used to efficiently eliminate redundant species....

In this study, numerical simulation and experiments have been carried out to explore the differences in combustion and emissions characteristics between dual-fuel Highly Premixed Charge Combustion (HPCC, including E-HPCC and L-HPCC) and blended-fuel Low Temperature Combustion (LTC) modes with...

Reducing CO2 emissions from vehicles in China is crucial and will significantly alleviate the environmental burden of the Earth. Some promising technologies that make possible low-carbon vehicles are reviewed in this work, including electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, hybrid vehicles,...