Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app11041441
Keywords
spark-ignition engine; biofuel; ammonia injection; carbon-free fuel; engine knock; emission
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- Dina Motors company
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The study found that ammonia port injection significantly reduces NOx emissions, but has negative impacts on engine efficiency, CO, and HC emissions. It also decreases the minimum octane number required to prevent knock when added to the fuel mixture.
This study aims to investigate the effect of the port injection of ammonia on performance, knock and NOx emission across a range of engine speeds in a gasoline/ethanol dual-fuel engine. An experimentally validated numerical model of a naturally aspirated spark-ignition (SI) engine was developed in AVL BOOST for the purpose of this investigation. The vibe two zone combustion model, which is widely used for the mathematical modeling of spark-ignition engines is employed for the numerical analysis of the combustion process. A significant reduction of similar to 50% in NOx emissions was observed across the engine speed range. However, the port injection of ammonia imposed some negative impacts on engine equivalent BSFC, CO and HC emissions, increasing these parameters by 3%, 30% and 21%, respectively, at the 10% ammonia injection ratio. Additionally, the minimum octane number of primary fuel required to prevent knock was reduced by up to 3.6% by adding ammonia between 5 and 10%. All in all, the injection of ammonia inside a bio-fueled engine could make it robust and produce less NOx, while having some undesirable effects on BSFC, CO and HC emissions.
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