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Recent Advances in Fuel Additives and Their Spray Characteristics for Diesel-Based Blends

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ENERGIES
Volume 15, Issue 19, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/en15197281

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biodiesel; diesel fuel blends; spray characteristics; atomization; penetration length; spray cone angle

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Spray characteristics are crucial for the performance and emissions of compression ignition engines. This study investigates the impact of fuel properties and injection conditions on spray characteristics. Higher injection pressures result in longer penetration lengths, better atomization, and reduced mean diameter. Liquid properties and structural properties play vital roles in the spray formation of fuel blends.
The spray characteristics play a crucial role in determining the performance and emissions of compression ignition (CI) engines at the pre-combustion stage. With the advent of many types of alternative fuels and their blends with diesel, it is necessary to investigate the effect of fuel properties and various injection conditions to determine the penetration length, spray cone angle and spray area for a viable fuel with similar or better dispersion characteristics to diesel. Hence, this study reviews and summarizes the spray visualization techniques, along with in depth analysis of macroscopic spray properties of various fuel blends with diesel. It was found that higher injection pressures typically led to higher penetration lengths, better atomization with reduced Sauter mean diameter. Liquid properties such as viscosity, surface tension, and evaporation as well as structural properties play a crucial role in spray formation in fuel blends with various types of alcohols, ethers, biodiesel, aliphatic, aromatic, as well as nanoparticle additives. This review compares these fuel additives and their types to present a comparative study with diesel to determine the ideal conditions with minimal changes to the engine for replacing diesel with a sustainable fuel consisting of better combustion efficiency due to its enhanced spray characteristics.

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