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Hydrogen in Spark Ignition Engines

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In the present world, there is a huge demand for spark ignition (SI) engines in transportation sector as there is an increase in population of light commercial vehicles such as motorcycles and cars. Petrol powered SI engine produces less noise and vibration with high thermal efficiency as compared with diesel engines. Utilization of hydrogen as fuel in SI engines has found to improve the combustion and performance characteristics of engines. The primary fuel petrol and secondary fuel hydrogen are induced in the inlet manifold. The various percentage of hydrogen used in the SI engines include 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25%, together with different ratios of petrol fuel. Whenever hydrogen induced in the SI or compression ignition (CI) engines for safety purpose a flame arrester is used. This current was assessed to calculate the combustion, performance and emission characteristics of a high-speed single cylinder SI engine operating with different hydrogen–petrol blends. The various percentage of hydrogen was inducted along with petrol fuel to reduce the tailpipe emissions. The hydrogen was mixed with base fuels such as P95H5 (95% petrol, 5% of hydrogen), P90H10 (90% petrol, 10% of hydrogen), P85H15 (85% petrol, 15% of hydrogen), P80H20 (80% petrol, 20% of hydrogen) and P75H25 (75% petrol, 25% of hydrogen). About 20% of hydrogen blend showed greater brake thermal efficiency of 26.8% when compared with base fuel. Furthermore, 25% of hydrogen mixed with petrol drastically reduced the hydrocarbon content, carbon monoxide content and exhaust gas temperature petrol by 22.8%, 40.26% and 15.61%, respectively, when compared with base fuel at full load condition.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aditya Engineering College, Surampalem, India

    P. V. Elumalai, S. K. Das, M. Sreenivasa Reddy, A. Saravana, S. Anjanidevi, Adduri SSM Sitaramamurty & M. Anusha

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, India

    N. S. Senthur

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India

    M. Parthasarathy

  4. Department of Mec Hanical Engineering, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, P.M.B 1221, Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria

    Olusegun D. Samuel

  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Science Campus, University of South Africa, Private Bag X6, Florida, 1709, South Africa

    Olusegun D. Samuel

  6. Department of Motor Vehicles and Transportation Technologies, Amasya University, Tasova Yuksel Akin Vocational School, Amasya, Turkey

    Selçuk Sarıkoç

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Elumalai, P.V. et al. (2022). Hydrogen in Spark Ignition Engines. In: Di Blasio, G., Agarwal, A.K., Belgiorno, G., Shukla, P.C. (eds) Application of Clean Fuels in Combustion Engines. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8751-8_10

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