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Combustion development of a Bi-Fuel engine

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Environmental improvement and energy issues are increasingly becoming more important as worldwide concerns. Natural gas is a good alternative fuel that can help to improve these issues because of its large quantity and clean burning characteristics. This paper provides the experimental performance results of a Bi-Fuel engine that uses Compressed Natural Gas as its Primary fuel and gasoline as its secondary fuel. This engine is a modification of the basic 1.4-liter gasoline engine. Generally, on the unmodified base engine, torque and power for CNG fuel are considerably lower than gasoline fuel. In this paper, the influence of fuels on wall temperature, performance and emissions are investigated.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Chamran High Way, P.O. Box 14115-111, Tehran, Iran

    O. S. Abianeh & F. Ommi

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, AmirKabir University, 424 Hafez Ave, P.O. Box 15914, Tehran, Iran

    M. Mirsalim

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Abianeh, O.S., Mirsalim, M. & Ommi, F. Combustion development of a Bi-Fuel engine. Int.J Automot. Technol. 10, 17–25 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12239-009-0003-7

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