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The research is devoted to the possibility for application of hydrogen accumulated from renewable energy sources as a fuel for a reciprocating engine, which serves as an electrical generator drive. Hydrogen combustion in the chamber of a reciprocating engine, as a rule, occurs in a detonation mode. In order to obtain less hard modes, the present research proposes the usage of steam additions to hydrogen–air mixture or lean hydrogen–air mixtures. Mathematical simulation is used for investigation of combustion of mentioned mixtures in the combustion chamber of a reciprocating engine with a spark-plug ignition. The comparison of the usage of hydrogen–steam–air mixtures and lean hydrogen–air mixtures as fuels is given. The dependence of arising combustion modes and its quantitative characteristics on hydrogen content in combustible composition is investigated. The analysis of optimal combustion is presented, which is based on the consideration of two parameters: peak pressure in one cycle and the crankshaft angle corresponding to the achievement of the peak pressure.
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Original Russian Text © A.E. Smygalina, V.M. Zaitchenko, M.F. Ivanov, A.D. Kiverin, 2015, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Energetika.
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Smygalina, A.E., Zaitchenko, V.M., Ivanov, M.F. et al. Combustion of hydrogen-based mixtures in gas-fueled reciprocating engines. Therm. Eng. 62, 981–987 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040601515130091
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