On the effects of fuel properties and injection timing in partially premixed compression ignition of low octane fuels
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ArticleKAUST Department
Chemical Engineering ProgramClean Combustion Research Center
Combustion and Laser Diagnostics Laboratory
Combustion and Pyrolysis Chemistry (CPC) Group
Computational Reacting Flow Laboratory (CRFL)
Mechanical Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2017-06-29Online Publication Date
2017-06-29Print Publication Date
2017-11Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625652
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A better understanding on the effects of fuel properties and injection timing is required to improve the performance of advanced engines based on low temperature combustion concepts. In this work, an experimental and computational study was conducted to investigate the effects of physical and chemical kinetic properties of low octane fuels and their surrogates in partially premixed compression ignition (PPCI) engines. The main objective was to identify the relative importance of physical versus chemical kinetic properties in predicting practical fuel combustion behavior across a range of injection timings. Two fuel/surrogate pairs were chosen for comparison: light naphtha (LN) versus the primary reference fuel (PRF) with research octane number of 65 (PRF 65), and FACE (fuels for advanced combustion engines) I gasoline versus PRF 70. Two sets of parametric studies were conducted: the first varied the amount of injected fuel mass at different injection timings to match a fixed combustion phasing, and the second maintained the same injected fuel mass at each injection timing to assess resulting combustion phasing changes. Full-cycle computational fluid dynamic engine simulations were conducted by accounting for differences in the physical properties of the original and surrogate fuels, while employing identical chemical kinetics. The simulations were found to capture trends observed in the experiments, while providing details on spatial mixing and chemical reactivity for different fuels and injection timings. It was found that differences in physical properties become increasingly important as injection timing was progressively delayed from premixed conditions, and this was rationalized by analysis of mixture stratification patterns resulting from injection of fuels with different physical properties. The results suggest that accurate descriptions of both physical and chemical behavior of fuels are critical in predictive simulations of PPCI engines for a wide range of injection timings.Citation
Naser N, Jaasim M, Atef N, Chung SH, Im HG, et al. (2017) On the effects of fuel properties and injection timing in partially premixed compression ignition of low octane fuels. Fuel 207: 373–388. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2017.06.048.Sponsors
This work was supported by Saudi Aramco under the FUELCOM program and the Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The authors are thankful to Yoann Viollet at the Saudi Aramco Fuel Technology Division for helpful comments in improving the manuscript. We are also grateful to Adrian Ichim at the Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST for his help and support with the engine experiments.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016236117307561ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.fuel.2017.06.048