{"title":"Combustion Mode Evaluation of a Methanol–Diesel Dual Direct Injection\u0000 Engine with a Control of Injection Timing and Energy Substitution\u0000 Ratio","authors":"Yifan Zhao, Xinyu Liu, S. Kook","doi":"10.4271/03-18-01-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4271/03-18-01-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Methanol, as a renewable fuel, is an attractive option for internal combustion\u0000 engines. The dual direct injection method is one of the most promising\u0000 strategies for applying methanol fuel in diesel engines as the flexible\u0000 injection control enables combustion mode switching. In this study, a 1-L\u0000 single-cylinder common-rail diesel engine with a compression ratio of 17.4 is\u0000 retrofitted by installing an additional methanol direct injector with 35 MPa\u0000 injection pressure. The engine is operated at 1400 rpm, intermediate load, and\u0000 fixed midpoint combustion phasing of 10 °CA aTDC with a fixed total amount of\u0000 energy while applying an energy substitution principle with up to 70% energy\u0000 supplied by methanol. From the experiments, three distinct combustion modes were\u0000 identified. When early methanol injection timings were selected in the range of\u0000 180–60 °CA bTDC, the primary combustion mode was premixed burn. Late injection\u0000 timings of 10 °CA bTDC to TDC led to heat release rate shapes of the diffusion\u0000 flame mode. In between these injection timings, partially premixed combustion\u0000 was achieved where the higher methanol substitution ratio achieved carbon\u0000 dioxide (CO2) emissions reduction by up to 11% and nitrogen oxides\u0000 (NOx) emission suppression by up to 12%. It was also found that\u0000 with increasing methanol energy substitution ratio, a significant reduction in\u0000 smoke emissions was achieved. However, the decreased power output and increased\u0000 emissions of unburnt hydrocarbon (uHC) and carbon monoxide (CO) were measured\u0000 due to incomplete combustion caused by lower flame temperature of methanol.","PeriodicalId":47948,"journal":{"name":"SAE International Journal of Engines","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141922671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}