EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF ISO-PROPANOL/GASOLINE BLENDS IN A SPARK-IGNITION ENGINE COMBINED WITH EGR

Abstract

Experiments were carried out in a spark-ignition engine fueled with iso-propanol/gasoline blends. Emission characteristics of this engine were investigated experimentally, including gaseous emissions (HC, CO, NOx) and particulate matter emission in term of number and size distributions. The effects of different iso-propanol percentages, loads and exhaust gas recirculation rates on emissions were analyzed. Results show that the introduction of exhaust gas recirculation reduces the NOx emission and NOx emission gives the highest value at full load condition. HC and CO emissions present inconspicuous variations at all the loads except the load of 10%. Additionally, HC emission shows a sharp increase for pure propanol when the exhaust gas recirculation rate is up to 5%, while little variation is observed at lager exhaust gas recirculation rates. Moreover, the particulate matter number concentration increases monotonically with the increase of load and the decrease of exhaust gas recirculation rate. There exists a critical spark timing that produces the highest particulate matter number concentration at all the blending ratios.

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Dates

  • Submission Date2013-01-31
  • Revision Date2013-06-18
  • Acceptance Date2013-06-24
  • Online Date2013-07-06

DOI Reference

10.2298/TSCI130131086G

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