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A Novel Reduced Reaction Mechanism for Diesel/2,5-Dimethylfuran Engine Application

Journal

ATMOSPHERE
Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/atmos14040642

Keywords

2; 5-dimethylfuran; n-heptane; toluene; reaction mechanism; diesel engine

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The application of DMF as an alternative fuel for internal combustion engines is gaining popularity. This study proposes a reduced reaction mechanism for n-heptane/toluene/DMF-PAH to predict the combustion and emissions of a diesel engine. The mechanism is validated with experimental measurements and shows reasonable agreement.
The application of 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) as an alternative fuel for internal combustion engines has been gaining popularity. However, it has rarely been studied in previous research on the chemical kinetics of DMF for engine combustion simulations. In the present study, a reduced n-heptane/toluene/DMF-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) reaction mechanism containing only 78 species amongst 190 reactions was proposed and applied to predict the combustion and emissions of a diesel engine using diesel/DMF blend fuel. First, a detailed reaction mechanism for DMF from the literature was chosen and reduced using combined mechanism reduction methods under engine-relevant conditions. Second, the reduced mechanism of DMF was incorporated into an existing reduced n-heptane/toluene-PAH mechanism to establish a three-component chemistry mechanism. Third, the predictive capability of the combined mechanism was improved by adjusting the rate constants of selected gas-phase reactions. Subsequently, the proposed three-component mechanism was compared and validated with experimental measurements of shock tube ignition delay times and premixed flame species profiles acquired from published papers. Moreover, new experimental data from a conventional diesel engine were used to evaluate the developed mechanism. Overall, the predicted results obtained by this proposed reduced n-heptane/toluene/DMF-PAH mechanism are in reasonable agreement with the available experiments.

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