Industry 4.0
Vol. 8 (2023), Issue 8, pg(s) 410-412

DOMINANT TECHNOLOGIES IN “INDUSTRY 4.0”

Influence of variable compression ratio on emissions of a single cylinder- 4 stroke engine fueled with/etanol/gasoline blends

  • 1 School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  • 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, AL-Hussein Bin Talal University, Jordan

Abstract

Impact of changing compression ratio by varying the combustion chamber geometry on the engine performance was investigated, SI single cylinder air-cooled engine fuelled with unleaded gasoline and pure ethanol was used. These tests were conducted on three different compression ratios of, 7:1 8.5:1, and 10:1 with a wide-open throttle, and three different ignition timing, before and after top died centre. . The results showed that the BMEP (brake mean effective pressure), BTE (brake thermal efficiency), and BSFC (brake specific fuel consumption) obtained with the use of gasoline blends at all CRs were generally increased when they were compared to those of pure gasoline. In general, ethanol provided a lower exhaust emission compared to gasoline’s emissions at all CRs. Furthermore NOx emissions was affected much more than other exhaust emissions when changing the compression ratios compared to un leaded gasoline © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of ICEER 2018

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