Title
Soot and chemiluminescence in diesel combustion of bio-derived, oxygenated and reference fuels
Author
Klein-Douwel, R.J.H.
Donkerbroek, A.J.
van Vliet, A.P.
Boot, M.D.
Somers, L.M.T.
Baert, R.S.G.
Dam, N.J.
ter Meulen, J.J.
TNO Industrie en Techniek
Publication year
2009
Abstract
High-speed imaging, spectroscopy and thermodynamical characterization are applied to an optically accessible, heavy-duty diesel engine in order to compare sooting and chemiluminescence behaviour of bio-derived, oxygenated fuels and various reference fuels. The fuels concerned include the bio-derived fuels Jatropha oil (pure), Jatropha-methylester (JME) and rapeseed-methylester (RME), all containing ≈10%mass oxygen, and fossil oxygenated fuels tripropyleneglycolmonomethylether (TPGME) and cyclohexanone, both mixed with synthetic fuel to have similar total oxygen content. Commercial diesel, model fuel IDEA, a Fischer-Tropsch synthetic fuel (FT) and a blend containing cyclohexane serve as reference fuels. The start of hot combustion is derived from OH* and CH* chemiluminescence as observed through a spectrograph. Both species occur at about the same time, CH* signal being weaker. Soot incandescence is observed twodimensionally at 0.3° crank angle resolution (200 images/cycle). Ignition delays derived from soot incandescence and chemiluminescence are compared to those determined from heat release. The heat release rate and exhaust NO concentrations are used as indicators of average and peak temperatures, respectively, which are combined with soot incandescence signal to get a relative measure for a fuel's sooting propensity. Both the fuel molecular structure and its oxygen content are found to be important for soot abatement. © 2009 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Subject
Energy
Bio-derived fuel
Chemiluminescence
Ignition delay
Oxygenated fuel
Soot incandescence
Bio-derived fuel
Crank angle
Cyclohexanone
Diesel combustion
Fischer Tropsch
Heat release
Heat release rates
Heavy-duty diesel engine
High speed imaging
Hot combustion
Ignition delay
Ignition delays
Jatropha
Methyl esters
NO concentration
Oxygen content
Oxygenated fuel
Peak temperatures
Soot abatement
Total oxygen
Chemiluminescence
Diesel engines
Dust
Ignition
Light emission
Light measurement
Molecular oxygen
Smoke
Soot
Synthetic fuels
Thermochemistry
Leakage (fluid)
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2008.06.140
TNO identifier
241628
ISSN
1540-7489
Source
32nd International Symposium on Combustion, 3 August 2008 through 8 August 2008, Montreal, QC, 32 II, 2817-2825
Series
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
Document type
conference paper