Combustion of n-butanol in a spark-ignition IC engine

Fuel

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1573-1582

  Szwaja, S ^a,b   Naber, J D ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CZESTOCHOWA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Butanol; Combustion; Gasoline; Internal combustion engine

Indexed keywords

AIR CONTROL; BUTANOL; COMBUSTION ANALYSIS; COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS; COMBUSTION DURATION; COMBUSTION PHASING; COMBUSTION PRO-CESS; COMPRESSION RATIOS; ELECTRONIC SENSORS; ENERGY SOURCE; ENGINE CONTROL; ENGINE TORQUE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FUEL BLENDS; FUEL MIXTURES; FUEL RATIO; GASOLINE BLENDS; HEAT RELEASE; HIGH QUALITY; IC ENGINES; MASS FRACTION; N-BUTANOL; ON-LINE ANALYSIS; PORT FUEL INJECTIONS; PROTOTYPING; RENEWABLE SOURCES; SERIES PRODUCTION; SI ENGINES; SPARK TIMING; SPARK-IGNITION ENGINE; TOP DEAD CENTER; VARIABLE COMPRESSION RATIO; WAUKESHA ENGINES;

ALCOHOLS; BLENDING; COMBUSTION EQUIPMENT; COMPRESSION RATIO (MACHINERY); DATA HANDLING; ELECTRIC SPARKS; ENGINE CYLINDERS; ENGINES; FOSSIL FUELS; GASOLINE; IGNITION; SMOKE; TIME MEASUREMENT;

COMBUSTION KNOCK;

EID: 77951252779     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2009.08.043     Document Type: Article

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