THERMAL SCIENCE

International Scientific Journal

EFFECTS OF BIOETHANOL ULTRASONIC GENERATED AEROSOLS APPLICATION ON DIESEL ENGINE PERFORMANCES

ABSTRACT
In this paper the effects of an experimental bioethanol fumigation application using an experimental ultrasound device on performance and emissions of a single cylinder diesel engine have been experimentally investigated. Engine performance and pollutant emissions variations were considered for three different types of fuels (biodiesel, biodiesel-bioethanol blend and biodiesel and fumigated bioethanol). Reductions in brake specific fuel consumption and NOx pollutant emissions are correlated with the use of ultrasonic fumigation of bioethanol fuel, comparative to use of biodiesel-bioethanol blend. Considering the fuel consumption as diesel engine’s main performance parameter, the proposed bioethanol’s fumigation method, offers the possibility to use more efficient renewable biofuels (bioethanol), with immediate effects on environmental protection.
KEYWORDS
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2014-07-03
PAPER REVISED: 2015-06-25
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2015-07-20
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2015-08-08
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI140703108M
CITATION EXPORT: view in browser or download as text file
THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2015, VOLUME 19, ISSUE Issue 6, PAGES [1931 - 1941]
REFERENCES
  1. Desantes, J., et al., Influence on the Fuel Characteristics on the Injection Process in a D.I. Diesel Engine, SAE Paper 980802, 1998.
  2. Lakshminarayanan, P.A., Aghav, Y.V., Modelling Diesel Combustion (Mechanical Engineering Series), Berlin, Springer Netherlands, 2010.
  3. IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Summary for Policymakers: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of the Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  4. Kujawski, W., Zieliński, Ł., Bioethanol - one of the renewable energy sources, Environmental Protection Engineering, 32, 2006: 143-150.
  5. Dincer, K., Lower Emissions from Biodiesel Combustion, Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 30, 2008: 963-968.
  6. Nag, A., Biosystems Engineering, New York, McGraw-Hill, 2010.
  7. Moldovanu, D., Burnete, N., Computational fluid dynamics simulation of a single cylinder research engine working with biodiesel, Thermal Science, 17, 2013: 195-203.
  8. Tomic, M., et. al, Effects of fossil diesel and biodiesel blends on the performances and emissions of agricultural tractor engines, Thermal Science, 17, 2013: 263-278.
  9. Heywood, J.B., Internal combustion engines fundamentals, Singapore, McGraw-Hill International Editions, 1988.
  10. Lu, X., et al., Simultaneous reduction of NOx emission and smoke opacity of biodiesel-fueled engines by port injection of ethanol, Fuel, 87, 2008: 1289-1296.
  11. Maiboom, A., Tauzia, X., NOx and PM emissions reduction on an automotive HSDI Diesel engine with water-in-diesel emulsion and EGR: An experimental study, Fuel, 90, 2011: 3179-3192.
  12. Szybist, J.P., et al., Evaluation of formulation strategies to eliminate the biodiesel NOx effect, Fuel Processing Technology, 86, 2005: 1109-1126.
  13. Johnson, T.V., Diesel Emission Control Technology 2003 in Review, SAE Technical Paper 2004-01-0070, doi:10.4271/2004-01-0070, 2004.
  14. Abu-Qudais, M., et al., The effect of alcohol fumigation on diesel engine performance and emissions, Energy Conversion and Management, 41, 2000: 389-399.
  15. Di, Y., et al., Comparison of the Effect of Biodiesel-Diesel and Ethanol-Diesel on the Particulate Emissions of a Direct Injection Diesel Engine, Aerosol Science and Technology, 43, 2009: 455-465.
  16. European Biofuels Technology Platform, Bioethanol use in Europe and globally, 2015, Web: accessed 9 May 2015, www.biofuelstp.eu.
  17. Ma, J., et al., An experimental study of HCCI-DI combustion and emissions in a diesel engine with dual fuel, Thermal Science, 47, 2008: 1235-42.
  18. Papagiannakis, R.G., Rakopoulos, C.D., Hountalas, D.T., Emission characteristics of high speed, dual fuel, compression ignition engine operating in a wide range of natural gas/diesel fuel proportions, Fuel, 89, 2010: 1397-406
  19. Kousoulido, M., et al., Effect of biodiesel and bioethanol on exhaust emissions, European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change, Technical Paper, Feb, 2008. Web: acm.eionet.europa.eu/docs/ETCACC_TP_2008_5_biofuels_emissions.pdf, accessed 9 May 2015.
  20. Fraioli, V., et. al, Ethanol effect as premixed fuel in dual-fuel CI engines: Experimental and numerical investigations, Applied Energy, 119, 15 Apr, 2014: 394-404.
  21. Hansdah, D., Murugan, S., Bioethanol fumigation in a DI diesel engine, Fuel, 130, 2014: 324-333.
  22. Imran, A., et. al, Review on alcohol fumigation on diesel engine: A viable alternative dual fuel technology for satisfactory engine performance and reduction of environment concerning emission, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 26, 2013: 739-751.
  23. Gargiulo, V., et. al, Chemico-physical features of soot emitted from a dual-fuel ethanol-diesel system, Fuel, 150, 2015: 154-161.
  24. Sarjovaara, T., Larmi, M., Vuorinen, V., Effect of charge air temperature on E85 dual-fuel diesel combustion, Fuel, 153, 2015: 6-12.
  25. Goldsworthy, L., Fumigation of a heavy duty common rail marine diesel engine with ethanol-water mixtures, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 47, 2013: 48-59.
  26. Morsy, M.H., Assessment of a direct injection diesel engine fumigated with ethanol/water mixtures, Energy Conversion and Management, 94, 2015: 406-414.
  27. Bodisco, T., Brown, R.J., Inter-cycle variability of in-cylinder pressure parameters in an ethanol fumigated common rail diesel engine, Energy, 52, 2013: 55-65.
  28. Yao, C., et al., Experimental study on the effect of gaseous and particulate emission from an ethanol fumigated diesel engine, Science China Technological Science, 53, 2010: 3294-3301.
  29. Chauhan, B.S., et al., Experimental studies on fumigation of ethanol in a small capacity Diesel engine, Energy, 36, 2011: 1030-1038.
  30. Zhang, Z.H., et al., Effect of fumigation methanol and ethanol on the gaseous and particulate emissions of a direct-injection diesel engine, Atmospheric Environment, 45, 2011: 2001-2008.
  31. Surawski, N.C., et al., Gaseous and particle emissions from an ethanol fumigated compression ignition engine, Energy Conversion and Management, 54, 2012: 145-151.
  32. Mariasiu, F., Experimental results regarding biodiesel fueled CI engine functional performances (in Romanian), Biodiesel Magazin, 5, 2008: 30-34.
  33. Iclodean. C.D., Mariasiu, F., Possibility to Increase Biofuels Energy Efficiency used for Compression Ignition Engines Fueling, TEM Journal, 3, 2014: 36-41.
  34. Alpetkin E, et al., Using waste animal fat biodiesel-bioethanol-diesel fuel blends in a DI diesel engine, Fuel, 157, 2015: 245-254.

© 2024 Society of Thermal Engineers of Serbia. Published by the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International licence