Abstract
We investigated the generating efficiency and pollutant emissions of a four-stroke spark-ignition gas engine generator operating on biogas–hydrogen blends of varying excess air ratios and hydrogen concentrations. Experiments were carried out at a constant engine speed of 1200 rpm and a constant electric power output of 10 kW. The experimental results showed that the peak values of generating efficiency, maximum cylinder pressure, and NO x emissions were elevated at an excess air ratio of around 1.2 as the hydrogen concentration was increased. CO 2 emissions decreased as the excess air ratio and hydrogen concentration increased, due to lean-burn conditions and hydrogen combustion. An efficiency per NO x emissions ratio (EPN) was defined to consider the relationship between the generating efficiency and NO x emissions. A maximum EPN value of 0.7502 was obtained with a hydrogen concentration of 15%, for an excess air ratio of 2.0. At this EPN value, the NO x and CO 2 emissions were 39 ppm and 1678.32 g/kWh, respectively, and the generating efficiency was 29.26%. These results demonstrated that the addition of hydrogen to biogas enabled the effective generation of electricity using a gas engine generator through lean-burn combustion.
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