An investigation of the effects of diesel pilot injection parameters on natural gas combustion under diesel conditions

Journal of the Institute of Energy

Volumn 74, Issue 500, 2001, Pages 81-90

  Mbarawa, M ^a   Milton, B E ^a   Casey, R T ^a  

^a TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; COMBUSTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIESEL ENGINES; DIFFUSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; SPECIFIC HEAT;

DIESEL PILOT INJECTION;

NATURAL GAS;

EID: 0035467246     PISSN: 01442600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. The challenges of change in the auto industry: Why alternative fuels
2. LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) as a fuel and refrigerant for diesel powered shrimp boats
3. Comparative studies of methane and propane as fuels for spark ignition and compression ignition engines
4. A review of combustion process in the dual-fuel engine
5. Examination of the performance of a dual-fuel diesel engine with particular reference to the presence of some inert diluents in the engine intake charge
6. Ignition of premixed gaseous fuel and air charge by pilot fuel spray injection with reference to dual-fuel combustion
7. Knock in dual-fuel engines
8. Some measures towards enhancing the performance of methane fuelled diesel engines at light load
9. The dual-fuel engine of the compression ignition type -prospects, problems, and solutions - A review
10. Natural gas fuelling of a Caterpillar 3406 diesel engine
11. Improving the performance of small dual-fuelled engines
12. Performance and emissions of a converted RABA 2356 bus engine in diesel and dual fuel diesel/natural gas operation
13. Emissions and fuel economy of a pre-chamber diesel engine with natural gas duel fuelling
14. Combustion and exhaust emissions in a direct-fuel with natural gas
15. The combustion of gaseous fuels in a dual-fuel engine of the compression ignition type with particular reference to cold intake temperature conditions
16. x emission
17. Investigation concerning the employment possibility of diesel-gas process for reducing exhaust emissions, especially soot (particulate matters)
18. Emissions and performance of natural gas and diesel fuelled school buses with Cummins 8.3 litre engines
19. Natural gas and diesel transit bus emissions: Review and recent data
20. A dual-fuel combustion model for pre-mixed natural gas with distillate ignition in a quiescent bomb
21. The numerical computation of turbulent flows
22. Fuel spray trajectory and dispersion in a DI diesel combustion chamber
23. A practical calculation method for injection pressure and spray penetration in diesel engines
24. Current status of droplet and liquid combustion
25. Simplified reaction mechanisms for the oxidation of hydrogen fuels in flames
26. Dual-fuel combustion with injected natural gas and distillate
27. A computer program for calculating properties for equilibrium combustion products with some applications to IC engines