Experimental investigations of combustion, performance and emission characteristics of a hydrogen enriched natural gas fuelled prototype spark ignition engine

Fuel

Volumn 178, Issue , 2016, Pages 209-217

  Verma, Gaurav ^a   Prasad, Rajesh Kumar ^a   Agarwal, Rashmi A ^a   Jain, Siddhant ^a   Agarwal, Avinash Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Combustion; H C ratio; Hydrogen enriched natural gas; NOx; Spark ignition engine

Indexed keywords

BRAKES; COMBUSTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENGINES; FUEL INJECTION; FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; HYDROGEN; IGNITION; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; NATURAL GAS; NITROGEN OXIDES;

BRAKE THERMAL EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNITS; EMISSIONS AND COMBUSTION; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FUEL INJECTION TIMING; H/C RATIO; PERFORMANCE AND EMISSIONS; SINGLE-CYLINDER SPARK-IGNITION;

ENGINE CYLINDERS;

EID: 84962086868     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2016.03.022     Document Type: Article

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