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Emission characteristics of a spark-ignition engine fuelled with gasoline-n-butanol blends in combination with EGR
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In this article, an experimental study was conducted in a port fuel-injection, spark-ignition engine fuelled with blends of gasoline and n-butanol at different spark timings and EGR rates.About:
This article is published in Fuel.The article was published on 2012-03-01. It has received 310 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Octane rating & Spark-ignition engine.read more
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Alcohol combustion chemistry
TL;DR: A detailed overview of recent results on alcohol combustion can be found in this paper, with a particular emphasis on butanols and other linear and branched members of the alcohol family, from methanol to hexanols.
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Review on the characteristics of butanol, its production and use as fuel in internal combustion engines
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive literature review of butanol, its characteristics and properties is presented, focusing on the potential use as biofuel for the automotive industry, mainly for the purpose of improving the acetone-butanol-ethanol process.
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Alcohol and ether as alternative fuels in spark ignition engine: A review
Omar I. Awad,Rizalman Mamat,Obed M. Ali,Nor Azwadi Che Sidik,Talal Yusaf,Kumaran Kadirgama,Maurice Kettner +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically review the use of alcohols and ethers including butanol, methanol, ethanol, and fusel oil, MTBE, and DME as fuels in SI engine and investigate the effects of performance (brake torque, brake power, BSFC, effective efficiency, and EGT), emissions (CO, CO2, NOx and HC) and combustion characteristics of SI engine with alcohol and ether.
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Study on performance and emissions of a passenger-car diesel engine fueled with butanol–diesel blends
TL;DR: In this article, a high-speed direct injection (DI) diesel engine for passenger-car application for varied loads at two representative engine speeds was tested, and the results showed that butanol-diesel blends slightly increased combustion pressure and accelerated burning rate.
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Alcohol based automotive fuels from first four alcohol family in compression and spark ignition engine: A review on engine performance and exhaust emissions
I.M. Yusri,Rizalman Mamat,Gholamhassan Najafi,A. Razman,Omar I. Awad,W.H. Azmi,Wan Faizal Wan Ishak,A.I.M. Shaiful +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the performance and emissions of a compression and spark ignition engine using of alcohol fuels from the first aliphatic alcohol family; methanol, ethanol, propanol and butanol was reviewed and summarized to demonstrate its viability as an alternative fuel.
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Internal combustion engine fundamentals
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe real engine flow and combustion processes, as well as engine operating characteristics and their operation, including engine design and operating parameters, engine characteristics, and operating characteristics.
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Combustion of n-butanol in a spark-ignition IC engine
TL;DR: In this paper, a single-cylinder cooperative fuels research engine (CFR) with variable compression ratio manufactured by Waukesha Engine Company is used to provide air control and port fuel injection.
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An experimental and kinetic modeling study of n-butanol combustion
S.M. Sarathy,Murray J. Thomson,Casimir Togbé,Philippe Dagaut,Fabien Halter,Christine Mounaïm-Rousselle +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented new experimental data for n-butanol in three experimental configurations, including an improved detailed chemical kinetic mechanism (878 reactions involving 118 species) derived from a previously proposed scheme in the literature.
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Study of spark ignition engine fueled with methanol/gasoline fuel blends
TL;DR: In this article, a 3-cylinder port fuel injection engine was adopted to study engine power, torque, fuel economy, emissions including regulated and non-regulated pollutants and cold start performance with the fuel of low fraction methanol in gasoline.
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Experimental study on combustion characteristics of a spark-ignition engine fueled with natural gas–hydrogen blends combining with EGR
TL;DR: An experimental study on the effect of hydrogen fraction and EGR rate on the combustion characteristics of a spark-ignition engine fueled with natural gas-hydrogen blends was investigated in this article.