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Potential Assessment of Methanol to Reduce the Emission in LTC Mode Diesel Engine

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The scarcity of fossil fuel and compliance with stringent emission regulations require an improvement in existing technologies used in traditional compression ignition (CI) engines. Many advanced combustion technologies like homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI), premixed compression ignition (PCI), partially premixed compression ignition (PPCI), and reactivity control compression ignition (RCCI) engine have been proven beneficial for improving performance, emissions, and combustion characteristics of the compression ignition (CI) engine. Among these combustion strategies, the partially premixed combustion (PPC) strategy is an efficient low-temperature combustion (LTC) mode having lower Soot/ NOX exhaust emissions and higher efficiency. The partially premixed combustion strategy allows the utilization of higher research octane number (RON) fuel in modern CI engines. Unlike traditional compression ignition engines, the PPC strategy allows sufficient time for fuel/air mixing before self-ignition. In PPC strategy, advanced fuel injection timing with higher RON fuel can be used to achieve effective ignition timing, consequently, improve combustion stability. The study states that high O2 concentration in methanol appears to be favorable in the PPC strategy to reduce the soot emissions. Additionally, methanol has a higher latent heat of vaporization (LHV), which increases the charge cooling effect that reduces NOX emissions. Thus, the combined use of PPC strategy along with methanol could be a promising upcoming solution to fulfill the strict exhaust emission norms. The present work studies the effect of methanol on diesel engines working in PPC mode.

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Kumar, P., Sandhu, S.S., Singh, M., Deep, A. (2021). Potential Assessment of Methanol to Reduce the Emission in LTC Mode Diesel Engine. In: Agarwal, A.K., Valera, H., Pexa, M., Čedík, J. (eds) Methanol. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1280-0_11

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