Type
Book ChapterAuthors
Sarathy, Mani
KAUST Department
Chemical Engineering ProgramClean Combustion Research Center
Combustion and Pyrolysis Chemistry (CPC) Group
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Date
2016-08-17Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625547
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This chapter focuses on the production and combustion of alcohol fuels with four or more carbon atoms, which we classify as higher alcohols. It assesses the feasibility of utilizing various C4-C8 alcohols as fuels for internal combustion engines. Utilizing higher-molecular-weight alcohols as fuels requires careful analysis of their fuel properties. ASTM standards provide fuel property requirements for spark-ignition (SI) and compression-ignition (CI) engines such as the stability, lubricity, viscosity, and cold filter plugging point (CFPP) properties of blends of higher alcohols. Important combustion properties that are studied include laminar and turbulent flame speeds, flame blowout/extinction limits, ignition delay under various mixing conditions, and gas-phase and particulate emissions. The chapter focuses on the combustion of higher alcohols in reciprocating SI and CI engines and discusses higher alcohol performance in SI and CI engines. Finally, the chapter identifies the sources, production pathways, and technologies currently being pursued for production of some fuels, including n-butanol, iso-butanol, and n-octanol.Citation
Sarathy SM (2016) Fuel Class Higher Alcohols. Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass: 29–57. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9783527685318.ch2.Publisher
WileyAdditional Links
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9783527685318.ch2/summaryae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/9783527685318.ch2