The challenges and strategies of butanol application in conventional engines: The sensitivity study of ignition and valve timing

Applied Energy

Volumn 108, Issue , 2013, Pages 248-260

  Deng, Banglin ^a,b   Yang, Jing ^a   Zhang, Daming ^b   Feng, Renhua ^a,b   Fu, Jianqin ^a   Liu, Jingping ^a   Li, Ke ^a   Liu, Xiaoqiang ^c  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Chongqing Traffic Engineering Supervision and Consultation Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Butanol; Gasoline engine; Ignition timing; Valve timing

Indexed keywords

BUTENES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINES; EXHAUST GASES; EXPERIMENTS; NITROGEN OXIDES;

COMBUSTION EFFICIENCIES; CONVENTIONAL ENGINE; GASOLINE ENGINES; IGNITION TIMING; OPERATING PARAMETERS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SINGLE-CYLINDER SPARK-IGNITION; VALVE TIMING;

GASOLINE;

ALCOHOL; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMBUSTION; CYLINDER; DATA SET; EMISSION; ENGINE; HYDROCARBON; NITROGEN OXIDES; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TORQUE;

EID: 84876346311     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.03.018     Document Type: Article

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