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http://dx.doi.org/10.5855/ENERGY.2011.20.2.163

A Numerical Analysis on Combustion Characteristics of the Gasoline Engine using Methanol Reformulated Fuels under WOT Condition  

Lee, Suk-Young (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha Technical College)
Jeon, Chung-Hwan (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan University)
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Journal of Energy Engineering / v.20, no.2, 2011 , pp. 163-169 More about this Journal
Abstract
This research is to decide the possibility of using RM50(reformulated methanol fuel) without any modification of engine by the method of numerical analysis. Comparing the heat release rate, the difference among each fuel was decreased according to the increase of the engine speed, and the maximum heat release rate was higher in the order of RM50 and gasoline fuel. Also, this order corresponds to the order of burning speed. RM50 had the higher turbulent burning speed, and the curve of turbulent intensity was showed similar tendency to the curve of turbulent burning speed. RM50 had relatively high burning speed, short quenching length, high temperature in cylinder, so that it might increase NO emission, but owing to chemical reaction dynamics, it was decreased NO emission. Therefore, in order to predict the possibility of using RM50, it is needed to consider not only the temperature in cylinder by low heating value, but also combustion characteristics including burning speed.
Keywords
Methanol-reformulated; Turbulent burning speed; Turbulent intensity; Combustion noise; Cylinder pressure level;
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