ព្រឹត្តិបត្រស្រាវជ្រាវ (Research Articles)

Title
Performance and emission characteristics of a spark ignition engine fuelled with butanol isomer-gasoline blends
Author(s)NAM Yusoff, Nurin Wahidah Mohd Zulkifli, Haji Hassan Masjuki, MH Harith, AZ Syahir, MA Kalam, MF Mansor, A Azham, LS Khuong
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Keywords   Butanol isomers     Engine performance     Exhaust emissions     Gasoline blends     Spark ignition engine  
Abstract

The heavy reliance on petroleum-derived fuels such as gasoline in the transportation sector is one of the major causes of environmental pollution. For this reason, there is a critical need to develop cleaner alternative fuels. Butanol is an alcohol with four different isomers that can be blended with gasoline to produce cleaner alternative fuels because of their favourable physicochemical properties compared to ethanol. This study examined the effect of butanol isomer-gasoline blends on the performance and emission characteristics of a spark ignition engine. The butanol isomers; n-butanol, sec-butanol, tert-butanol and isobutanol are mixed with pure gasoline at a volume fraction of 20 vol%, and the physicochemical properties of these blends are measured. Tests are conducted on a SI engine at full throttle condition within an engine speed range of 1000–5000 rpm. The results show that there is a significant increase in the engine torque, brake power, brake specific fuel consumption and CO2 emissions with respect to those for pure gasoline. The butanol isomers-gasoline blends give slightly higher brake thermal efficiency and exhaust gas temperature than pure gasoline at higher engine speeds. The iBu20 blend (20 vol% of isobutanol in gasoline) gives the highest engine torque, brake power and brake thermal efficiency among all of the blends tested in this study. The isobutanol and n-butanol blend results in the lowest CO and HC emissions, respectively. In addition, all of the butanol isomer-gasoline blends yield lower NO emissions except for the isobutanol-gasoline blend.

JournalTransportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
Publisher/InstitutionElsevier
Field/FacultyAutomotive Engineering
Publication Year2017
Volumn57
Issue-
Pages23-38
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2017.09.004
Recommended CitationNAM Yusoff, Nurin Wahidah Mohd Zulkifli, Haji Hassan Masjuki, MH Harith, AZ Syahir, MA Kalam, MF Mansor, A Azham, LS Khuong. (2017). Performance and emission characteristics of a spark ignition engine fuelled with butanol isomer-gasoline blends. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 57, 23-38
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