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The Impact of Natural Gas-Hydrogen Blends on Internal Combustion Engines Performance and Emissions
Technical Paper
2009-24-0102
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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The fossil fuel consumption and the related environmental impact are important issues for the world research community: hydrogen seems to be a good alternative to fossil fuels provided that it is produced from renewable energy sources.
The aim of the present work is the comparison between natural gas and a hydrogen-natural gas blend (HCNG in the following) in terms of exhaust emissions and fuel consumption. A passenger car has been tested on a chassis dynamometer according to the European emission regulations, without any change on engine calibration (i.e. spark advance). The HCNG blend used during the test has a 12% vol. of hydrogen content.
CO emissions showed a reduction of about 19% when HCNG blend is used, while HC emissions remained constant. A 70% increase was observed for NOx emissions with HCNG. A 3% reduction for CO2 emission was observed using HCNG because of the lower carbon content in the blend and the reduced fuel consumption on a mass basis. There is not significant variation of fuel consumption on energy basis, probably due to the effect of a non optimal ignition timing.
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- A. Unich - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale e Meccanica - Seconda Università degli studi di Napoli – Aversa Italy
- B. Morrone - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale e Meccanica - Seconda Università degli studi di Napoli – Aversa Italy
- A. Mariani - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale e Meccanica - Seconda Università degli studi di Napoli – Aversa Italy
- M. V. Prati - Istituto Motori - CNR - Napoli Italy
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Unich, A., Morrone, B., Mariani, A., and Prati, M., "The Impact of Natural Gas-Hydrogen Blends on Internal Combustion Engines Performance and Emissions," SAE Technical Paper 2009-24-0102, 2009, https://doi.org/10.4271/2009-24-0102.Also In
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