Ethanol utilisation in a diesel engine using dual-fuelling technology

S Padala, C Woo, S Kook, ER Hawkes - Fuel, 2013 - Elsevier
Renewable feedstocks and high octane rating make ethanol a promising alternative fuel. In
contrast to the conventional approach of applying ethanol-gasoline blends in spark-ignition …

The shortening of lift-off length associated with jet–wall and jet–jet interaction in a small-bore optical diesel engine

AM Rusly, MK Le, S Kook, ER Hawkes - Fuel, 2014 - Elsevier
Jet–wall and jet–jet interactions are important diesel combustion phenomena that impact
fuel–air mixing, flame lift-off and pollutant formation. Previous studies to visualise a wall …

Apparent effects of in-cylinder pressure oscillations and cycle-to-cycle variability on heat release rate and soot concentration under long ignition delay conditions in …

P Kyrtatos, K Hoyer, P Obrecht… - … Journal of Engine …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
In diesel engines, long ignition delay due to cold in-cylinder conditions has been shown to
lead to high cycle-to-cycle variability, as well as result in pressure oscillations due to rapid …

Effect of ethanol port-fuel-injector position on dual-fuel combustion in an automotive-size diesel engine

S Padala, S Kook, ER Hawkes - Energy & fuels, 2014 - ACS Publications
In contrast to the conventional approach of using ethanol in spark-ignition engines, this
study demonstrates the potential of ethanol utilization in diesel engines using dual-fuel …

Safe operation of dual-fuel engines using constrained stochastic control

C Guardiola, B Pla, P Bares… - International Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Premixed combustion strategies have the potential to achieve high thermal efficiency and to
lower the engine-out emissions such as NOx. However, the combustion is initiated at several …

Characteristics and effect factors of pressure oscillation in multi-injection DI diesel engine at high-load conditions

Q Zhang, Z Hao, X Zheng, W Yang - Applied Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The in-cylinder pressure oscillation during combustion process in multi-injection (MI) DI
diesel engine is researched in this paper. The in-cylinder pressure testing is conducted …

High-speed imaging of soot luminosity and spectral analysis of in-cylinder pressure trace during diesel knock

A Rusly, S Kook, E Hawkes, R Zhang - 2014 - sae.org
The present study focuses on the observation of knock phenomena in a small-bore optical
diesel engine. Current understanding is that a drastic increase of pressure during the …

[PDF][PDF] The effects of prolonged ignition delay due to charge air temperature reduction on combustion in a diesel engine

P Kyrtatos - 2013 - research-collection.ethz.ch
The present thesis concentrates on the effectiveness of NOx reduction in large four stroke
diesel engines through cooling of the charge via the implementation of advanced Miller …