Impact of alcohol–diesel fuel blends on soot primary particle size in a compression ignition engine

F.J. Martos; O. Doustdar; S. Zeraati-Rezaei; J.M. Herreros; A. Tsolakis

doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2022.126346

Impact of alcohol–diesel fuel blends on soot primary particle size in a compression ignition engine

F.J. Martos^*, O. Doustdar, S. Zeraati-Rezaei, J.M. Herreros, A. Tsolakis

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Abstract

The use of alternative fuels, such as bio-alcohols, in advanced propulsion systems could a feasible strategy to address several of the current issues associated to the use of internal combustion engines fuelled by carbonaceous fossil fuels. Particularly, soot particles, are one of the key pollutants emitted from compression ignition engines. Therefore, the development of soot formation prediction models providing new understanding on the impact of alternative fuels combustion in compression ignition engines become essential for soot mitigation purposes.

This study proposes a new semi-empirical model that predicts in-cylinder soot primary particle growth from an engine fuelled with alcohol–diesel fuel blends. The model uses macroscopic experimental measurements of engine parameters such as instantaneous in-cylinder pressure. Furthermore, an empirical correlation is presented predicting the mean soot primary particle size as a function of alcohol–diesel fuel blend properties and fuel/air ratio. The experimental measurement of primary soot particle mean size are obtained from High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (HT-TEM) micrographs obtained from soot particles collected via thermophoresis. Overall, the research findings presented in this work contributes to propose environmentally friendly fuel candidates for transportation.

Original language	English
Article number	126346
Number of pages	10
Journal	Fuel
Volume	333
Early online date	1 Nov 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2022.126346
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2023

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Funding Information:
F.J. Martos expresses thanks (1) the government of Spain for supporting his research stay with reference PRX19/00187 at University of Birmingham and (2) the University of Malaga for supporting through the supercomputing and Bioinnovation Center and in particular to the supercomputer Picasso belonging to the Spanish Supercomputing Network. ESPRC is acknowledged for supporting this work with the project FACE (ESPRC: ref. EP/P03117X/1).

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Keywords

Primary particle diameter
Soot
Compression ignition engines
Semi-empirical modelling
Alcoholic fuel blends

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Chemical Engineering
Fuel Technology
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Organic Chemistry

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