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Experimental investigation and ANN modelling of the effects of diesel/gasoline premixing in a waste cooking oil-fuelled HCCI-DI engine

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This paper intends to study the combustion, performance and emission characteristics of the HCCI-DI engine with waste cooking oil (WCO) biodiesel as direct injection fuel and diesel/gasoline as the premixed fuel. 20% of fuel (gasoline/diesel) was injected at inlet manifold along with the intake air during the suction stroke. Balance 80% of the fuel (diesel, B50 and WCO) was injected into the cylinder at 23 °CA before TDC. The outcomes observed from the experimentations showed that the HCCI-DI engine was resulted increased brake thermal efficiency (ηbth) than conventional DI engine. Increase in the ηbth up to 4.23% was found form the gasoline-premixed HCCI-DI operation compared to DI operation. During HCCI-DI, 14.81% and 4.3% drop in oxides of nitrogen (NOx) were observed for the diesel and gasoline premixing, respectively, compared to conventional engine. A decrease in the hydrocarbon up to 54.17% was noted for the WCO-fuelled DI engine compared with diesel-fuelled DI engine. 50.66% and 39.21% reduction in the smoke emissions were found for the diesel and gasoline-premixed HCCI-DI, respectively, compared to diesel-fuelled DI engine. Artificial neural network modelling was proposed to forecast the emissions and ηbth of the HCCI-DI engine.

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Abbreviations

P :

Cylinder pressure (bar)

m :

Number of data set

R :

Correlation coefficient

R 2 :

Coefficient of determination

O 2 :

Oxygen

η bth :

Brake thermal efficiency

θ RoHRmax :

Crank angle corresponding RoHRmax

θ pmax :

Crank angle corresponding Pmax

t:

Actual observation

n:

Crank angle interval (°CA)

o:

Predicted output value

max:

Maximum

ANN:

Artificial neural network

ASTM:

American society for testing and materials standard

CI:

Compression ignition

CO:

Carbon monoxide

CZO:

Copper-doped zinc oxide

DI:

Direct injection

HC:

Hydrocarbon

HCCI:

Homogeneous charge compression ignition

RoHR:

Rate of heat release

IC:

Internal combustion

MAPE:

Mean absolute percentage error

NOx:

Oxides of nitrogen

NRMSE:

Normalized root-mean-square error

RPR:

Rate of pressure rise (bar °CA−1)

SFC:

Specific fuel consumption

SI:

Spark ignition

SOC:

Start of combustion

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Leo, G.M.L., Sekar, S. & Arivazhagan, S. Experimental investigation and ANN modelling of the effects of diesel/gasoline premixing in a waste cooking oil-fuelled HCCI-DI engine. J Therm Anal Calorim 141, 2311–2324 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-020-09418-z

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