Abstract
Stricter regulations for internal combustion engines have necessitated the inclusion of eco-friendly fuels with conventional ones to reduce gas and solid emissions. Gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines, however, have been found to produce more particle number and mass emissions than port fuel injection engines. To address this, bioethanol fuel has been selected as an additive eco-friendly fuel for gasoline, with the aim of reducing particle emissions. In this study, we quantitatively characterize in-cylinder spatiotemporal flame to feature combustion performance and particle emissions for ethanol fuel in the GDI combustion chamber. We examined three engine combustion modes differed in equivalence ratio and injection strategy to produce various combustion results to quantify combustion performance and particle emission characteristics. Using an eight-channel non-intrusive flame luminosity sensor in one cylinder, we measured the flame front and its propagation direction. At the tailpipe, we measured particulate emissions using an engine exhaust particle sizer and a micro soot sensor coupled with a catalytic stripper that removed semi-volatile compounds. Our study found that increasing ethanol fuel content for different combustion modes resulted in distinct combustion and flame development. The particle size distribution also showed different patterns at each combustion mode, depending on the ethanol content. Lean combustion modes yielded high diffusion flame intensity compared to stoichiometric combustion mode, which resulted in a larger amount of particle formation. The physical properties of ethanol fuel were found to predominantly determine the fuel-air mixture quality, combustion process, and flame development at each combustion mode. An increase in ethanol fuel content at lean-homogeneous mode resulted in higher diffusion flame intensity and larger particle emissions. Our comparative study of flame and solid particles for ethanol fuel content improves the understanding of in-cylinder combustion processes and their correlations.
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