Intermediate temperature heat release in an HCCI engine fueled by ethanol/n-heptane mixtures: An experimental and modeling study
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Vuilleumier, DavidKozarac, Darko

Mehl, Marco
Saxena, Samveg
Pitz, William J.
Dibble, Robert W.

Chen, Jyhyuan
Sarathy, Mani

KAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionChemical Engineering Program
Clean Combustion Research Center
Combustion and Pyrolysis Chemistry (CPC) Group
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2014-03Permanent link to this record
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This study examines intermediate temperature heat release (ITHR) in homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines using blends of ethanol and n-heptane. Experiments were performed over the range of 0-50% n-heptane liquid volume fractions, at equivalence ratios 0.4 and 0.5, and intake pressures from 1.4bar to 2.2bar. ITHR was induced in the mixtures containing predominantly ethanol through the addition of small amounts of n-heptane. After a critical threshold, additional n-heptane content yielded low temperature heat release (LTHR). A method for quantifying the amount of heat released during ITHR was developed by examining the second derivative of heat release, and this method was then used to identify trends in the engine data. The combustion process inside the engine was modeled using a single-zone HCCI model, and good qualitative agreement of pre-ignition pressure rise and heat release rate was found between experimental and modeling results using a detailed n-heptane/ethanol chemical kinetic model. The simulation results were used to identify the dominant reaction pathways contributing to ITHR, as well as to verify the chemical basis behind the quantification of the amount of ITHR in the experimental analysis. The dominant reaction pathways contributing to ITHR were found to be H-atom abstraction from n-heptane by OH and the addition of fuel radicals to O2. © 2013 The Combustion Institute.Citation
Vuilleumier, D., Kozarac, D., Mehl, M., Saxena, S., Pitz, W. J., Dibble, R. W., … Mani Sarathy, S. (2014). Intermediate temperature heat release in an HCCI engine fueled by ethanol/n-heptane mixtures: An experimental and modeling study. Combustion and Flame, 161(3), 680–695. doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2013.10.008Sponsors
Researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology acknowledge funding from the Clean Combustion Research Center and from Saudi Aramco under the FUELCOM program. The work at LLNL was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Combustion and Flameae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.combustflame.2013.10.008