The
present paper tries to investigate the fundamental aspects of air
pollutants, fuel properties, and engine performance during transient
operation of naturally aspirated and turbocharged diesel engines in
addition to comparing them to new experimental results using methanol
as an oxygenate additive. The additives that can reduce the soot emission
are various oxygenate alcohols (methanol, ethanol, and n-butanol). The additives that are used for improvement of the fuel
properties (cetane number enhancers) are tertiary additives. Meanwhile,
the additives used for increasing the engine performance are nanometallic
additives, such as, silica, alumina, cerium, and manganese. This research
demonstrates the effect of various additives on the performance of
the diesel engine, emission, and diesel fuel properties by different
models, to address the optimum and best conditions. This paper shows
the effect of different oxygenate additives on the reduction of the
soot formation, although this effect was different in the different
models adopted. This research also illustrates the effects of tertiary
additives and nanometallic additives on the fuel properties and engine
performance, respectively, owing to the type of additive (additive
name). Moreover, this paper examined the effect of other conditions
(engine load, engine speed, and injection timing) on the above-mentioned
responses.
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