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The Impact of RON on SI Engine Thermal Efficiency
Technical Paper
2007-01-2007
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Recently, global warming and energy security have received significant attention. Thus an improvement of the vehicle fuel economy is strongly required. For engines, one effective way is to improve the engine thermal efficiency.
Raising compression ratio [1] or turbo charging technologies have potential to achieve high thermal efficiency. However knock does not allow the high thermal efficiency. Knock depends on the fuel composition and the pressure and temperature history of unburnt end-gas [2-3]. For fuels, RON is well known for describing the anti knock quality. High RON fuels have high anti knock quality and result in higher thermal efficiency.
This paper investigates the impact of high RON fuels on the thermal efficiency by using high compression ratio engine, turbo charged engine, and lean boosted engine [4]. Finally, it is shown that the high thermal efficiency can be approached with high RON gasoline and ethanol.
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Nakata, K., Uchida, D., Ota, A., Utsumi, S. et al., "The Impact of RON on SI Engine Thermal Efficiency," SAE Technical Paper 2007-01-2007, 2007, https://doi.org/10.4271/2007-01-2007.Also In
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