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Mingrui Wei

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Ji Gao

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Jinping Liu

,

Song Li

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A REDUCED MF/BIODIESEL MECHANISM FOR DIESEL ENGINE APPLICATION

ABSTRACT
The 2-methylfuran (MF) is widely used as a surrogate fuel for internal combustion engines. However, the chemical kinetics model of MF for engine combustion simulations remains scarce. In this paper, a reduced MF/biodiesel mechanism consisting of 82 species and 226 reactions was proposed and used to simulate the combustion process of MF and biodiesel dual-fuel diesel engine. First, a detailed chemical reaction mechanism of MF was selected and then mechanism reduction methods were used to reduce the detailed mechanism under engine conditions. Second, the reduced MF mechanism was coupled with a biodiesel mechanism to form a four-component chemistry mechanism, consisting of MD, MD9D, n-heptane, and MF. Third, the combined mechanism was optimized by using rate of production analysis and sensitivity analysis. Finally, the proposed four-component mechanism was verified by comparing the calculated values of ignition delay and species concentrations with the experimental values. Meanwhile, a new dual-fuel diesel engine test was carried out, and the experiments were used to evaluate the reliability of the combination mechanism. Overall, the simulated results of the proposed four-component mechanism in this paper are basically consistent with the experimental results.
KEYWORDS
2-methylfuran, biodiesel, reaction mechanism, dual-fuel engine
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2022-05-09
PAPER REVISED: 2022-06-08
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2022-07-04
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2022-09-10
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI220509130W
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2023, VOLUME 27, ISSUE Issue 2, PAGES [1465 - 1477]
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