Journal
APPLIED ENERGY
Volume 160, Issue -, Pages 566-580Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.08.004
Keywords
HCCI; Ozone; Alcohol fuels; Control
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- European Research Council under the European Community [291049-2G-CSafe]
- Region Centre under the European Regional Development Fund
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The present investigation examines the impact of seeding the intake of an HCCI engine with ozone, one of the most oxidizing chemical species, on the combustion of three alcohol fuels: methanol, ethanol and n-butanol. The research was performed through engine experiments and constant volume computations. The results showed that increasing the ozone concentration led to an improvement in combustion coupled with a combustion advance. It was also observed, by comparing the results for each fuel selected, that n-butanol is the most impacted by ozone seeding and methanol the least. Further analyses of the experimental results showed that the alcohol fuel combustion can be controlled with ozone, which presents an interesting potential. Finally, computation results confirmed the experimental results observed. They also showed that in presence of ozone, alcohol fuels are not initially oxidized by molecular oxygen but by O-atoms coming from the ozone decomposition. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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