Diesel-ignited propane dual fuel low temperature combustion in a heavy-duty diesel engine

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Polk, Andrew C ^a   Carpenter, Chad D ^a   Guerry, E Scott ^a   Dwivedi, U ^a   Srinivasan, Kalyan Kumar ^a   Krishnan, Sundar Rajan ^a   Rowland, Zach L ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative fuels; dual fuel combustion; low temperature combustion; NOx control; pilot ignition; propane

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; DIESEL ENGINES; DIESEL FUELS; DIRECT INJECTION; DUAL FUEL ENGINES; ENGINE CYLINDERS; EXPERIMENTS; IGNITION; NITROGEN OXIDES; SUPERCHARGERS; TEMPERATURE; TURBOMACHINERY;

BRAKE MEAN EFFECTIVE PRESSURES; DUAL FUEL COMBUSTION; EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION (EGR); FUEL CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; LOW TEMPERATURE COMBUSTION; NOX CONTROL; PILOT IGNITION; VARIABLE GEOMETRY TURBOCHARGER;

PROPANE;

EID: 84898823185     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: 15288919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4027189     Document Type: Article

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