Journal
FUEL
Volume 305, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2021.121582
Keywords
Aromatics; Soot; PLII; TEM; Particle Structure
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- DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory and International Technology Center Indo-Pacific (ITC-IPAC)
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This study investigates the impact of fuel aromatic content on soot particle development inside the cylinder of an optically accessible engine. Higher aromatic fuel leads to earlier soot formation, higher growth rate, and increased peak soot and remaining soot measurements, but has little effect on reactions and flame development.
This study reports the effect of fuel aromatic content on soot particle development inside the cylinder of an optically accessible engine. A custom-made set of fuels of 4%, 14% and 24% aromatic content was carefully studied under pilot-main injection conditions. Time-resolved imaging of cool frame, OH* chemiluminescence signals and soot luminosity were performed to visualise the overall reaction development. Planar laser induced fluorescence imaging of HCHO and incandescence imaging of soot were also performed to obtain detailed understanding of reactions and soot distributions. Soot is analysed at a particle level. Using the thermophoresisbased particle sampling method, soot aggregates were collected from multiple in-bowl locations. The subsequent transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging of the collected soot particles enables structural analysis of soot particles as well as sub-nano-scale carbon layers. The results showed that the aromatic content has little impact on reactions and flame development among the tested fuels. However, the soot formation starts to occur earlier, and its growth rate is much higher for a higher aromatic fuel. As a result, both the peak soot and remaining soot is measured higher for a higher aromatic fuel. The carbon-layer fringe analysis shows more mature, graphitised structures with higher aromatics at both formation-dominant and oxidation-dominant stages. The most noticeable trend is observed from larger soot aggregates for a higher aromatic fuel while the overall shapes are similar.
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