Exergy analysis and investigation on effect of inlet valve closing temperature and hydrogen enrichment in syngas composition in an HCCI engine

Abstract

This study presents the parametric investigation of syngas fuelled homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine. The chemical kinetic simulation of the syngas HCCI engine is performed using the stochastic reactor model (SRM). This study first compares and evaluates the performance of different reaction mechanisms for the HCCI engine. The experimental combustion pressure data is compared with numerically investigated combustion pressure to validate the reaction mechanisms. Results indicate that a numerically simulated combustion pressure using a detailed reaction mechanism consisting of 173 reactions and 32 species (CRECK-2014) is well-matched with the profile of experimental combustion pressure. The validated reaction mechanism is further used to investigate the HCCI engine at different engine speeds for various equivalence ratio (ϕ), syngas composition (hydrogen addition (H2:CO)) and inlet valve closing temperature (Tivc). The sensitivity analysis is performed to find the prominent reactions in the oxidation reaction mechanism. Based on the combustion characteristics, syngas HCCI maps are developed. The effect of engine operating conditions on combustion and emission characteristics is also investigated. Furthermore, the result of engine operating parameters on converting fuel energy into physical exergy, chemical exergy, work exergy, and heat loss exergy is also briefly discussed.