Comprehensive Applications Testing of Diesel from a Commercial Scale Gas-to-Liquids Plant

Swarts, André; Bell, Arthur; Mokheseng, Konrad; Pretorius, Marié; Schaberg, Paul

doi:10.4271/2010-01-1522

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“…For the above mentioned reasons, GTL fuels have been expected to have a potential to achieve low emissions without any major engine modifications [29,[32][33][34][35] and insignificant loss in efficiency [8,9,[17][18][19][20]. GTL fuels can be blended with conventional petroleum-derived diesel fuels [36][37][38][39][40] and Bio-diesels [41][42][43][44][45] and due to the Table 1 Comprehensive Timeline of Gas-to-liquids: from Alchemy to Industry [46].…”

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Engine combustion, performance and emission characteristics of gas to liquid (GTL) fuels and its blends with diesel and bio-diesel

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Masjuki

Varman

et al. 2014

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Crude oil price hikes, energy security concerns and environmental drivers have turned the focus on alternative fuels. Gas to liquid (GTL) diesel is regarded as a promising alternative diesel fuel, considering the adeptness to use directly as a diesel fuel or in blends with petroleumderived diesel or bio-diesel. GTL fuel derived from Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is of distinctly different characteristics than fossil diesel fuel due to its paraffinic nature, virtually zero sulfur, low aromatic contents and very high cetane number. GTL fuel is referred to as a "clean fuel" for its inherent ability to reduce engine exhaust emission even with blends of diesel and Biodiesel. This paper illustrates feasibility of GTL fuel in context of comparative fuel properties with conventional diesel and bio-diesels. This review also describes the technical attributes of GTL and its blends with diesel and bio-diesel focusing their impact on engine performance and emission characteristics on the basis of the previous research works. It can introduce an efficacious guideline to devise several blends of alternative fuels, further development of engine performance and to constrain exhaust emission to cope with the relentless efforts to manufacture efficient and environment friendly powertrains.

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Engine combustion, performance and emission characteristics of gas to liquid (GTL) fuels and its blends with diesel and bio-diesel

Sajjad

Masjuki

Varman

et al. 2014

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Thermo-mechanical fatigue damage and failure of modern high performance diesel pistons

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Impact of Alternative Paraffinic Fuels on the Durability of a Modern Common Rail Injection System

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Common rail (CR) diesel fuel injection systems are very sensitive to variations in fuel properties, thus the impact of alternative fuels on the durability of the injection system should be investigated when considering the use of alternative fuels. This work studies a high-pressure CR (HPCR) diesel fuel injection system operating for 400 h in an injection test bench, using a fuel blend composed of an alternative paraffinic fuel and conventional diesel (50PF50D). The alternative fuel does not have aromatic components and has lower density than conventional diesel fuel. The injection system durability study was carried out under typical injection pressure and fuel temperature for the fuel pump, the common rail and the injector. The results show that the HPCR fuel injection system and its components (e.g., piston, spring, cylinder, driveshaft and cam) have no indication of damage, wear or change in surface roughness. The absence of internal wear to the components of the injection system is supported by the approximately constant total flow rate that reaches the injector during the whole the 400 h of the experiment. However, the size of the injector nozzle holes was decreased (approximately 12%), being consistent with the increase in the return fuel flow of the injector and rail (approximately 13%) after the completion of the study. Overall, the injection system maintained its operability during the whole duration of the durability study, which encourages the use of paraffinic fuels as an alternative to conventional diesel fuel.

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Comprehensive Applications Testing of Diesel from a Commercial Scale Gas-to-Liquids Plant

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Engine combustion, performance and emission characteristics of gas to liquid (GTL) fuels and its blends with diesel and bio-diesel

Engine combustion, performance and emission characteristics of gas to liquid (GTL) fuels and its blends with diesel and bio-diesel

Thermo-mechanical fatigue damage and failure of modern high performance diesel pistons

Impact of Alternative Paraffinic Fuels on the Durability of a Modern Common Rail Injection System

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