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The rising energy demand of transportation sector worldwide causes the depletion of oil reserves. Also, the harmful exhaust emissions from transportation sector possess a risk to human health. This book presents a different aspects of methanol utilization in compression ignition (CI) engines for transportation sector. The first section of this book includes the introduction chapter, where the content of all the book chapters is summarized. The second section presents a methanol as a fuel for CI engines, introduces a different approach for methanol combustion in CI engine and presents the examples of methanol utilization as a fuel in transportation sector. This section also discusses the safety aspects of methanol utilization in transportation. The third section of the book focuses on application aspects, such as performance and combustion characteristics and integrating methanol as a fuel into a diesel engine architecture. The fourth and the last section of this book is dedicated to emissions. The effect of methanol on harmful emissions such as carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC), oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) is evaluated. Further, the effect of partially premixed combustion strategy of methanol on emission production and the response surface models for prediction of emissions and engine performance of dual fuel engine are presented.
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Agarwal, A.K., Valera, H., Pexa, M., Čedík, J. (2021). Introduction of Methanol: A Sustainable Transport Fuel for CI Engines. 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_1
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