Air Pollution Reduction and Environment Protection Using Methane Fuel for Turbocharged CI Engines

• Autorzy: Ghazal O. H.

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DOI

10.12911/22998993/91276

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The internal combustion engine is considered as one of the main sources for air pollution due to hydrocarbon fuel combustion. The increased land transport usage requires improvement of the engine efficiency and combustion process technology to reduce the engine emissions. A turbocharged engine and the gaseous fuel replacement are the green tools proposed by researchers to enhance fuel saving and emissions reduction. In this paper, both methods were investigated. The methane is a preferred gaseous fuel due to its lower carbon to hydrogen ratio, resulting in lesser HC and CO emissions. In this paper, a turbocharged compression ignition engine with methane/diesel dual fuel is simulated using professional GT-power code to investigate the effect of methane percentage in mixture on the engine performance and emissions. A turbocharged 6 cylinders compression ignition engine has been built and investigated. During the simulation, the methane/diesel ratios were varied from pure diesel with zero percent methane to 90% methane concentration by mass with 10% increment every run. The results show that the engine brake power and specific fuel consumption increased while the thermal efficiency decreased for lower CH₄ concentration. For higher CH₄ percentage, the brake power and thermal efficiency increased while specific fuel consumption decreased. Moreover, NO emission has 35% reduction compared to neat diesel fuel when 50% of methane was added to the mixture. Conversely, the CO and HC concentration increased when the methane ratio is less than 50% compared to neat diesel combustion. In general, the engine efficiency improved when methane was added to diesel fuel in compression ignition engine with turbocharger boost, resulting in lesser emissions and cleaner environment.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

air pollution; clean combustion; methane emissions; heavy-duty diesel engines

• Wydawca: Polskie Towarzystwo Inżynierii Ekologicznej ; Lublin University of Technology
• Czasopismo: Journal of Ecological Engineering
• Rocznik: 2018
• Tom: Vol. 19, nr 5
• Strony: 52--58
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 32 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Ghazal O. H.

• Mechanical Engineering Department, Applied Science Private University, Al-Arab Street 21, Amman 11931 Shafa Badran, Jordan

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