Experimental study of the effects of natural gas injection timing on the combustion performance and emissions of a turbocharged common rail dual-fuel engine

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 297-304

  Yang, Bo ^a   Wei, Xing ^a   Xi, Chengxun ^a   Liu, Yifu ^a   Zeng, Ke ^a   Lai, Ming Chia ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual fuel; Emissions; Natural gas injection timing; Performance; Pilot ignited

Indexed keywords

BRAKES; DIESEL ENGINES; ENGINE CYLINDERS; ENGINES; EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL GAS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

BRAKE THERMAL EFFICIENCY; COMBUSTION PERFORMANCE; DUAL-FUELS; NATURAL GAS COMBUSTION; NATURAL GAS INJECTION; PERFORMANCE; PILOT INJECTION TIMING; PILOT-IGNITED;

IGNITION;

EID: 84905158282     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2014.07.030     Document Type: Article

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