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Chemical Engineering ProgramClean Combustion Research Center
Combustion and Pyrolysis Chemistry (CPC) Group
Mechanical Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2017-07-04Online Publication Date
2017-07-04Print Publication Date
2017-10Permanent link to this record
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The octane responses of gasoline/ethanol mixtures are not well understood because of the unidentified intermolecular interactions in such blends. In general, when ethanol is blended with gasoline, the Research Octane Number (RON) and the Motor Octane Number (MON) non-linearly increase or decrease, and the non-linearity is determined by the composition of the base gasoline and the amount of added ethanol. The complexity of commercial gasolines, comprising of hundreds of different components, makes it challenging to understand ethanol-gasoline synergistic/antagonistic blending effects. Understanding ethanol blending effects with simpler gasoline surrogates is critical to acquire knowledge about ethanol blending with complex multi-component gasoline fuels. In this study, the octane numbers (ON) of ethanol blends with five relevant gasoline surrogate molecules were measured. The molecules investigated in this study include: n-pentane, iso-pentane, 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene, cyclopentane and 1-hexene. These new measurements along with the available data of n-heptane, iso-octane, toluene, various primary reference fuels (PRF) and toluene primary reference fuels (TPRF) with ethanol are used to develop a blending rule for the octane response (RON and MON) of multi-component blends with ethanol. In addition, new ON data are collected for six Fuels for Advanced Combustion Engine (FACE) with ethanol. The relatively simple volume based model successfully predicts the octane numbers (ON) of the various ethanol/PRF and ethanol/TPRF blends with the majority of predictions being within the ASTM D2699 (RON) and D2700 (MON) reproducibility limits. The model is also successfully validated against the ON of the FACE gasolines blended with ethanol with the majority of predictions being within the reproducibility limits. Finally, insights into the possible causes of the synergistic and antagonistic effects of different molecules with ethanol are provided.Citation
Badra J, AlRamadan AS, Sarathy SM (2017) Optimization of the octane response of gasoline/ethanol blends. Applied Energy 203: 778–793. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.06.084.Sponsors
This work was sponsored by the Fuel Technology Division at Saudi Aramco R&DC. The work at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) was supported by KAUST under the Clean Combustion Research Center’s Future Fuels program and Saudi Aramco under FUELCOM.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Applied EnergyAdditional Links
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191730836Xae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.06.084