Combustion and emissions performance of a DME-enriched spark-ignited methanol engine at idle condition

Applied Energy

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3704-3711

  Liang, Chen ^a   Ji, Changwei ^a   Liu, Xiaolong ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Dimethyl ether (DME); Emissions; Idle condition; Methanol; SI engines

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; ETHERS; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; INVESTMENTS; MACHINE DESIGN; METHANOL; METHANOL FUELS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BLENDED FUELS; CO AND NO; CYCLIC VARIATIONS; DIMETHYL ETHERS; EMISSIONS PERFORMANCE; ENGINE INTAKE; ENGINE PERFORMANCE; ENGINE SPEED; FLAME DEVELOPMENT; HC EMISSIONS; IC ENGINES; IDLE CONDITION; INDICATED THERMAL EFFICIENCY; METHANOL ENGINE; SI ENGINES;

ENGINES;

ALTERNATIVE FUEL; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMBUSTION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENGINE; ETHER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; METHANOL; NITRIC OXIDE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMAL POWER;

EID: 79959813846     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.04.056     Document Type: Article

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