Soot temperature and KL factor for biodiesel and diesel spray combustion in a constant volume combustion chamber

Applied Energy

Volumn 107, Issue , 2013, Pages 52-65

  Zhang, Ji ^a   Jing, Wei ^a   Roberts, William L ^b   Fang, Tiegang ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Constant volume chamber; Diesel; Spray combustion; Two color thermometry

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMBUSTION; COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; DIESEL FUELS; DUST; ENERGY UTILIZATION; SOOT; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

AMBIENT OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; CONSTANT VOLUME CHAMBER; CONSTANT VOLUME COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; DIESEL; DIESEL SPRAY COMBUSTION; ENERGY UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY; SPRAY COMBUSTION; TWO-COLOR;

BIODIESEL;

BIOFUEL; CALIBRATION; DIESEL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEATING; SOOT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLUME;

EID: 84875117595     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.02.023     Document Type: Article

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