An experimental investigation into combustion and performance characteristics of an HCCI gasoline engine fueled with n-heptane, isopropanol and n-butanol fuel blends at different inlet air temperatures

Experimental investigation of combustion, emissions and thermal balance of secondary butyl alcohol-gasoline blends in a spark ignition engine

“…Butanol can be produced by the fermentation process from various renewable resources such as corn, wheat, sugarcane and potato [18,19]. Compared with methanol and ethanol, butanol has the most similar fuel properties to gasoline fuel such as heating value, stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, octane number and auto ignition temperature, thus making it more suitable to be blended with gasoline fuels [9,13,20]. In addition, butanol can be transported through existing fuel pipelines because it is insoluble in water [21].…”

“…Among all types of alternative fuels, alcohol is considered as the most suitable fuel substitution for spark ignition engines because it allows gasoline fuels to combust more completely owing to the presence of oxygen, which improves the engine combustion [11]. Three types of alcohol have recently attracted the attention of automotive researchers: methanol, ethanol and butanol [12][13][14]. For the past few years, the investigation of methanol and ethanol has received considerable critical attention with less attention paid to butanol as a sustainable alternative fuel.…”

Effects of intake temperature on performance and operation range of an HCCI engine fueled with n-butanol

“…In recent years, most of studies have been conducted to investigate the effects of various parameters on the performance, combustion, operation range and emissions of HCCI engines. The experimental research on combustion and performance of an HCCI engine conducted by Uyumaz under different intake temperature and showed that the start of combustion was advanced with the increase of intake temperature [4]. He et.al conducted an experimental study on a single cylinder port fuel injection engine to investigate the combustion and emission characteristics of HCCI engine under different relative air-fuel ratios and found that the IMEPs in HCCI combustion mode was limited by combustion stability under lean mixture conditions [5].…”

Investigation of emissions characteristics of secondary butyl alcohol-gasoline blends in a port fuel injection spark ignition engine

“…Butanol are considered as an advanced biofuel due to its superior characteristics compared to other alcohol family members [11][12][13]. Compared to methanol and ethanol butanol have the nearest fuel properties similarity to the gasoline fuel such as stoichiometric air fuel ratio, latent heating value, energy content, octane number and auto ignition temperature thus make it more suitable to be blended with gasoline fuel [14][15][16]. Furthermore butanol can be transported through the existing fuel pipeline as it is less corrosion.…”