Efficiency and Emissions Characteristics of Partially Premixed Dual-Fuel Combustion by Co-Direct Injection of NG and Diesel Fuel (DI
2
)
2016-01-0779
For the US market, an abundant supply of natural gas (NG) coupled with recent green-house gas (GHG) regulations have spurred renewed interest in dual-fuel combustion regimes. This paper explores the potential of co-direct injection to improve the efficiency and reduce the methane emissions versus equivalent fumigated dual-fuel combustion systems. Using the Westport HPDI engine as the experimental test platform, the paper reports the results obtained using both diffusion controlled (HPDI) combustion strategy as well as a partially-premixed combustion strategy (DI2). The DI2 combustion strategy shows good promise, as it has been found to improve the engine efficiency by over two brake thermal efficiency (BTE) points (% fuel energy) compared to the diffusion controlled combustion strategy (HPDI) while at the same time reducing the engine-out methane emissions by 75% compared to an equivalent fumigated dual-fuel combustion system. Details of the DI2 combustion process were obtained using 3D-CFD simulations and suggest further improvements of the dual-fuel combustion system are possible.
Citation: Florea, R., Neely, G., Abidin, Z., and Miwa, J., "Efficiency and Emissions Characteristics of Partially Premixed Dual-Fuel Combustion by Co-Direct Injection of NG and Diesel Fuel (DI2)," SAE Technical Paper 2016-01-0779, 2016, https://doi.org/10.4271/2016-01-0779. Download Citation
Author(s):
Radu Florea, Gary D. Neely, Zainal Abidin, Jason Miwa
Affiliated:
Southwest Research Institute
Pages: 14
Event:
SAE 2016 World Congress and Exhibition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Combustion and combustion processes
Engine efficiency
Natural gas
Diesel fuels
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