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SAE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINES
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 2153-2165Publisher
SAE INT
DOI: 10.4271/2016-01-2293
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- Argonne, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- DOE's Vehicle Technologies Program, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy [DE-FOA-0000991 (0991-1822)]
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The compression ratio is a strong lever to increase the efficiency of an internal combustion engine. However, among others, it is limited by the knock resistance of the fuel used. Natural gas shows a higher knock resistance compared to gasoline, which makes it very attractive for use in internal combustion engines. The current paper describes the knock behavior of two gasoline fuels, and specific incylinder blend ratios with one of the gasoline fuels and natural gas. The engine used for these investigations is a single cylinder research engine for light duty application which is equipped with two separate fuel systems. Both fuels can be used simultaneously which allows for gasoline to be injected into the intake port and natural gas to be injected directly into the cylinder to overcome the power density loss usually connected with port fuel injection of natural gas. Adding natural gas at wide open throttle helps to reduce knock mitigating measures and increases the efficiency and power density compared to the other gasoline type fuels with lower knock resistance. The used methods, knock intensity and number of pressure waves, do not show significant differences in knock behavior for the natural gas - gasoline blends compared to the gasoline type fuels. A knock integral was used to describe the knock onset location of the fuels tested. Two different approaches were used to determine the experimental knock onset and were compared to the knock onset delivered by the knock integral (chemical knock onset). The gasoline type fuels show good agreement between chemical and experimental knock onset. However, the natural gas - gasoline blends show higher discrepancies comparing chemical and experimental knock onset.
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