Combustion Analysis of Diethyl Ether Blends in Gasoline Engine Operated with Ethanol

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10.2991/icemie-16.2016.59How to use a DOI?

Keywords

fuel additive; gasoline-di ethyl ether blend; exhaust emissions

Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of using unleaded gasoline with di ethyl ether blends on spark ignition engine (SI engine) performance, exhaust and combustion analysis. A four stroke, single cylinder SI engine was used for conducting this study. Exhaust emissions were analysed for carbon monoxide (CO), Hydrocarbon (HC), and Oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) using unleaded gasoline, ethanol and di ethyl ether blends with different percentages of fuel at varying engine torque condition and constant engine speed. The result showed that the blending of unleaded gasoline with di ethyl ether increases the octane number and power output this may leads to increase the brake thermal efficiency. The CO, HC and NOx emissions concentrations in the engine exhaust decreases while the CO2 concentration increases. Using di ethyl ether as a fuel additive to unleaded gasoline causes an improvement in performance and significant reduction in exhaust emission.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - D. Balaji
AU  - T. Maridurai
AU  - S. N. Mani Varmaa
PY  - 2016/04
DA  - 2016/04
TI  - Combustion Analysis of Diethyl Ether Blends in Gasoline Engine Operated with Ethanol
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Electrical, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 237
EP  - 240
SN  - 2352-5401
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DO  - 10.2991/icemie-16.2016.59
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