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GTL (Gas To Liquid) and RME (Rapeseed Methyl Ester) combustion analysis in a transparent CI (compression ignition) engine by means of IR (infrared) digital imaging

Ezio Mancaruso, +2 more
- 01 Sep 2013 - 
- Vol. 58, pp 185-191
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In this article, high-speed IR measurements were performed in order to study the behavior of bio-fuels combustion in a transparent Euro 5 diesel engine operating in premixed mode (Commercial diesel fuel) this article, (Gas To Liquid) GTL and (Rapeseed Methyl Ester) RME biofuels have been used An elongated single-cylinder transparent engine equipped with the multicylinder head of commercial passenger car and (common rail) CR injection system was used A sapphire window was set in the bottom of the combustion chamber, and a sapp
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This article is published in Energy.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 14 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Combustion chamber & Diesel engine.

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Research on the combustion, energy and emission parameters of diesel fuel and a biomass-to-liquid (BTL) fuel blend in a compression-ignition engine

TL;DR: In this paper, the BTL additive reduced the rates of carbon dioxide (CO2), incompletely burned hydrocarbons (HC) emission and smokiness due to its chemical composition and combustion features.
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Vibration Characteristics of Compression Ignition Engines Fueled with Blended Petro-Diesel and Fischer-Tropsch Diesel Fuel from Coal Fuels

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of Fischer-Tropsch diesel fuel synthesized from coal (CFT) on the vibration of a compression ignition (CI) engine was studied.
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Design of microchannel Fischer–Tropsch reactor using cell-coupling method: Effect of flow configurations and distribution

TL;DR: In this article, a cell coupling computation was carried out for the micro-channel Fischer-Tropsch Reactor of five different flow configurations and the realistic flow distribution effect was incorporated into the model by using results obtained from CFD.
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Analysis of the pilot injection running Common Rail strategies in a research diesel engine by means of infrared diagnostics and 1d model

TL;DR: In this article, the analysis of the pilot injection in a research diesel engine by non-conventional optical diagnostics was performed by means of an optical access in the piston head and by the presence of an inclined mirror.
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Analysis of spray injection in a light duty CR diesel engine supported by non-conventional measurements

TL;DR: In this article, 2D visible and infrared imaging has been applied in single cylinder optical engine for several injection strategies typical of passenger car engine (homologation cycle NEDC), and the spray penetration and cone angle obtained by 2D imaging are compared with the results of a 1D consolidated model for transient spray developed by the Sandia National Laboratory.
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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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Vegetable oil as a diesel fuel: status and research priorities

TL;DR: A review of the current status of vegetable oils as a possible substitute for diesel fuel is presented in this paper, which includes identification of high oil bearing crops, oil processing and storage, results of short and long term engine tests, use of transesterification of vegetable oil and micro-emulsions, emissions, economics, and priorities for additional research.
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Premixed combustion of GTL and RME fuels in a single cylinder research engine

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the use of the optical technique applied in the cylinder of an optically accessible engine equipped with the latest-generation diesel engine head of a European passenger car.
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Infrared thermographic image processing for the operation and control of heterogeneous combustion chambers

TL;DR: In this article, a technique for processing an infrared image to identify what really happens within such a combustion chamber is described, and a validation of the proposed procedure is presented with an online application to an incinerator for industrial solid waste.
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