Effects of Fuel Quantity on Soot Formation Process for Biomass-Based Renewable Diesel Fuel Combustion

Jing, Wei; Wu, Zengyang; Roberts, William L.; Fang, Tiegang

Effects of Fuel Quantity on Soot Formation Process for Biomass-Based Renewable Diesel Fuel Combustion

Type

Conference Paper

Authors

Jing, Wei
Wu, Zengyang
Roberts, William L.
Fang, Tiegang

KAUST Department

Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSE) Division
Mechanical Engineering Program
Clean Combustion Research Center

Date

2016-12-01

Abstract

Soot formation process was investigated for biomass-based renewable diesel fuel, such as biomass to liquid (BTL), and conventional diesel combustion under varied fuel quantities injected into a constant volume combustion chamber. Soot measurement was implemented by two-color pyrometry under quiescent type diesel engine conditions (1000 K and 21% O2 concentration). Different fuel quantities, which correspond to different injection widths from 0.5 ms to 2 ms under constant injection pressure (1000 bar), were used to simulate different loads in engines. For a given fuel, soot temperature and KL factor show a different trend at initial stage for different fuel quantities, where a higher soot temperature can be found in a small fuel quantity case but a higher KL factor is observed in a large fuel quantity case generally. Another difference occurs at the end of combustion due to the termination of fuel injection. Additionally, BTL flame has a lower soot temperature, especially under a larger fuel quantity (2 ms injection width). Meanwhile, average soot level is lower for BTL flame, especially under a lower fuel quantity (0.5 ms injection width). BTL shows an overall low sooting behavior with low soot temperature compared to diesel, however, trade-off between soot level and soot temperature needs to be carefully selected when different loads are used.

Citation

Jing W, Wu Z, Roberts WL, Fang T (2016) Effects of Fuel Quantity on Soot Formation Process for Biomass-Based Renewable Diesel Fuel Combustion. ASME 2016 Internal Combustion Engine Fall Technical Conference. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icef2016-9380.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation under Grant No. CBET-0854174 and by the Saudi Aramco R&D Center through the Clean Combustion Research Center of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies. The authors also thank Dr. Stephen Kelley for providing the BTL fuel.

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