Performance Analysis of SI Engine Fueled by Ethanol Steam Reforming Products

2011-01-1992

08/30/2011

Event
SAE International Powertrains, Fuels and Lubricants Meeting
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Content
The goal of the present work was to analyze the performance of a spark ignition engine fueled by ethanol steam reforming products. The highest reformer-ICE system efficiency and the lowest CO emissions were achieved with the ethanol steam reforming products obtained at reaction temperature of 1000K and water/ethanol ratio of 1.8. Fueling the SI engine with reformate gas made it possible to achieve the reformer-ICE system efficiency of 40% for the engine fed by SRE products compared with 34% for gasoline and 36% for ethanol. CO emissions were reduced by 3.5 and 10 times compared with ethanol and gasoline, respectively. NO
emissions were decreased by about 4 times compared with the gasoline-fed engine.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2011-01-1992
Pages
11
Citation
Tartakovsky, L., Baibikov, V., Gutman, M., Mosyak, A. et al., "Performance Analysis of SI Engine Fueled by Ethanol Steam Reforming Products," SAE Technical Paper 2011-01-1992, 2011, https://doi.org/10.4271/2011-01-1992.
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Published
Aug 30, 2011
Product Code
2011-01-1992
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English