ONE DIMENSIONAL MODELING OF GASOLINE ALCOHOL DUAL FUEL COMBUSTION ENGINE

Year 2016, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 23 - 34, 01.01.2016

Mustafa Yılmaz Hasan Köten Ramin Saadat Pour

Abstract

In this study, experimental outcomes from a Spark ignition engine (SI) which fueled with E1 to E20 (Percentage of alcohol content in total fuel blend is various between 1% and 20%) were collated with recital of combustion codes for one dimensional analysis.1-D codes, which is called SRM-Suite (Stochastic Reactor Model) and Chemkin-Pro, were estimated from combustion, emissions and heat transfer point in an SI engine. The estimations are based on empirical data and working situations which were done at karadeniz technical university Research Labs in Turkey. A bunch of empirical data was employed for analysis in both of software’s according to both expanded and decreased kinetic mechanisms. Simulation outcomes were collated to empirical data from heat release rate, pressure and emission point. The vicissitude of the H2O2, temperature and OH which weren’t available experimentally were achieved by comparisons between two codes. Analysis demonstrates that each code has pluses and minuses. The advantages of SRM-. Suite are blow-by Crevice, ring gap, and probability density function (PDF) – based stochastic reactor modeling and these advantages helped with better convergence of the outcomes. But, Chemkin-Pro outcomes were logical and solution duration was much shorter than SRM-.Suite. Also it was clear that both decreased and expanded kinetic mechanisms had huge effect on analysis

Keywords

One-dimensional simulation, Chemical kinetic mechanism, SI engine, SRM-Suite, Chemkin-Pro

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