An Experimental Investigation of Fischer-Tropsch Fuels in a Light-Duty Diesel Engine
2007-01-0030
01/23/2007
- Event
- Content
- Experiments were performed using a Light-Duty, single-cylinder, research engine in which the emissions, fuel consumption and combustion characteristics of two Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) Diesel fuels derived from natural gas and two conventional Diesel fuels (Swedish low sulfur Diesel and European EN 590 Diesel) were compared.Due to their low aromatic contents combustion with the F-T Diesel fuels resulted in lower soot emissions than combustion with the conventional Diesel fuels. The hydrocarbon emissions were also significantly lower with F-T fuel combustion. Moreover the F-T fuels tended to yield lower CO emissions than the conventional Diesel fuels.The low emissions from the F-T Diesel fuels, and the potential for producing such fuels from biomass, are powerful reason for future interest and research in this field.
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- 17
- Citation
- Larsson, M., and Denbratt, I., "An Experimental Investigation of Fischer-Tropsch Fuels in a Light-Duty Diesel Engine," SAE Technical Paper 2007-01-0030, 2007, https://doi.org/10.4271/2007-01-0030.