Performance analysis of a 5-stroke IC engine by changing different fuels

Abstract

An Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is a heat engine in which fuel combustion happens with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that's a necessary portion of the working liquid stream circuit. An IC engine's extension of the high-temperature and high-pressure gasses created by combustion applies a coordinate drive to a few engine components. This paper made design modification and performance analysis of the 5-Stroke IC engine based on the previous article. The design of the IC engines is considered within a perspective of the required feature for the 5-Stroke engine. We had performed the simulation on it by replacing the primary fuel (with a constant fuel/air ratio of 1/16) called petrol with five different kinds of other fuels such as 1. Hydrogen, 2. Butanol fuel, 3. Methanol fuel, 4. Ethanol (AKA “ethyl alcohol”), 5. Acetylene. Then we observed the engine's performance with each of these fuels, compared it with each other in terms of performance and efficiency, and followed the harmful chemical composition that may release into the atmosphere. Also, we considered the availability of fuel in nature. While the design of the engine and its simulation is done on SolidWorks and Ansys software with a steady-state thermal workbench, and the flow simulation was in SolidWorks fluid simulation. At the end of the calculation and simulation, which we had performed under the assumed conditions, it states that methanol has the required properties, all under different criteria.