Josep Sanz-Argent

TL;DR: In this paper, a diesel fuel surrogate has been proposed by merging n -heptane and toluene kinetic mechanisms, which is selected by comparing modelled ignition delay angles with experimental ones obtained from a single cylinder DI diesel engine tests.

TL;DR: In this paper, a constant volume chamber system was used to characterize the ignition and combustion of a diesel fuel, where fuel is injected in the chamber through a standard diesel common rail injection system and initial chamber conditions were varied: fuel injection pressure (600 to 1000 bar), injection duration (500 to 3000 μs), initial temperature (808 to 923 K), initial pressures (6 to 21 bar), and oxygen mole fractions (15 to 30% diluted in nitrogen).

TL;DR: In this paper, the integral method proposed by Livengood and Wu has been traditionally used to predict the occurrence of knock on spark-ignition engines, due to its simplicity and low computational demand.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a delay time correlation for the three temperature ranges of a diesel fuel under homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) conditions, which can be used to design and optimize the most adequate control strategies leading to both low emission levels of pollutants and proper engine performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, a diagnostic method was developed to interpret the results of basic combustion studies with diesel-like fuels performed in a constant volume reactor originally conceived for cetane number measurements, the main target of the method is to calculate the instantaneous heat release over time from the chamber pressure experimental signal.