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Performance and fuel conversion efficiency of a spark ignition engine fueled with iso-butanol
Irimescu, Adrian - In: Applied Energy 96 (2012) C, pp. 477-483
alcohols such as butanol feature several advantages like increased heating value and reduced corrosive action. This study … investigated the effect of fueling a port injection engine with iso-butanol, as compared to gasoline operation. Performance levels … the engine was fueled with iso-butanol by up to 9% at full load and by up to 11% at part load, calculated as relative …
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Performance and emissions of a small scale generator powered by a spark ignition engine with adaptive fuel injection control
Irimescu, Adrian; Vasiu, Gabriel; Tordai, Gavrilă Trif - In: Applied Energy 121 (2014) C, pp. 196-206
. Flexibility in the use of different fuel types was evaluated by performing measurements with gasoline, iso-butanol and combined …
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Engine performance of optimized hydrogen-fueled direct injection engine
Yadav, Vinod Singh; Soni, S.L.; Sharma, Dilip - In: Energy 65 (2014) C, pp. 116-122
The world is presently confronted with the twin crisis of fossil fuel depletion and environmental degradation. Indiscriminate extraction and lavish consumption of fossil fuels have led to reduction in underground based carbon resources. The search for an alternative fuel, which promises a...
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Experimental and numerical investigation on the jet characteristics of spark ignition direct injection gaseous injector
Chitsaz, Iman; Saidi, Mohammad Hassan; Mozafari, Ali Asghar - In: Applied Energy 105 (2013) C, pp. 8-16
Natural gas has widely been used as a fuel in conventional Diesel and spark ignition engines. The better understanding of injector parameters on the jet structure is helpful for the combustion optimization. This paper presents an experimental and numerical study on the jet structure of gaseous...
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An advanced combustion model coupled with detailed chemical reaction mechanism for D.I diesel engine simulation
Maghbouli, Amin; Yang, Wenming; An, Hui; Li, Jing; … - In: Applied Energy 111 (2013) C, pp. 758-770
A multi-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling was conducted on a direct injection turbo-charged diesel engine based on KIVA-4 code under full and mid engine loads. Multi-component fuel evaporation model of KIVA-4 was used and coupled with advanced combustion chemistry to...
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Methodology to estimate the threshold in-cylinder temperature for self-ignition of fuel during cold start of Diesel engines
Broatch, A.; Ruiz, S.; Margot, X.; Gil, A. - In: Energy 35 (2010) 5, pp. 2251-2260
Cold startability of automotive direct injection (DI) Diesel engines is frequently one of the negative features when these are compared to their closest competitor, the gasoline engine. This situation worsens with the current design trends (engine downsizing) and the emerging new Diesel...
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Comparison of performance of a Greener direct-injection stratified-charge (DISC) engine with a spark-ignition engine using a simplified model
Najjar, Yousef S.H. - In: Energy 36 (2011) 7, pp. 4136-4143
The direct-injection stratified charge (DISC) engine is a hybrid between spark ignition (SI) and compression-ignition engines, it combines many of the best features of both with some unique advantages of its own. This includes multi-fuel capability, high thermal efficiency, low NOx production,...
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Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine fueled with rice bran biodiesel and n-butanol
Goga, Geetesh; Chauhan, Bhupendra Singh; Mahla, Sunil Kumar - In: Energy Reports 5 (2019), pp. 78-83
gases in a diesel engine. In the current investigation blends of diesel, rice bran biodiesel and n-butanol were prepared to … alkaline transesterification process in this study and after that blends of diesel-biodiesel and diesel-biodiesel-n butanol … that blends of rice bran biodiesel and n-butanol can be used as a fuel in a diesel engine without any change in the engine. …
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Alcohol advertising and motor vehicle fatalities
Saffer, Henry - 1994
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