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http://dx.doi.org/10.7467/KSAE.2013.21.6.155

Combustion Characteristics and Exhaust Emissions in Spark-ignition Engine Using Gasoline-ammonia  

Ryu, Kyunghyun (School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Kunsan National University)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers / v.21, no.6, 2013 , pp. 155-165 More about this Journal
Abstract
The effect of gaseous ammonia direct injection on the engine performance and exhaust emissions in gasoline-ammonia dual fueled spark-ignition engine was investigated in this study. Results show that based on the gasoline contribution engine power increases as the ammonia injection timing and duration is advanced and increased, respectively. However, as the initial amount of gasoline is increased the maximum power output contribution from ammonia is reduced. For gasoline-ammonia, the appropriate injection timing is found to range from 320 BTDC at low loads to 370 BTDC at high loads and the peak pressures are slightly lower than that for gasoline due to the slow flame speed of ammonia, resulting in the reduction of combustion efficiency. The brake specific energy consumption (BSEC) for gasoline-ammonia has little difference compared to the BSEC for gasoline only. Ammonia direct injection causes slight reduction of $CO_2$ and CO for all presented loads but significantly increases HC due to the low combustion efficiency of ammonia. Also, ammonia direct injection results in both increased ammonia and NOx in the exhaust due to formation of fuel NOx and ammonia slip.
Keywords
Ammonia; Spark ignition; Exhaust emissions; NOx; CO; Alternative fuel;
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