What fuel properties enable higher thermal efficiency in spark-ignited engines?

JP Szybist, S Busch, RL McCormick, JA Pihl… - Progress in Energy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines (Co-Optima) initiative from the US
Department of Energy aims to co-develop fuels and engines in an effort to maximize energy …

Effects of blending C3-C4 alcohols on motor gasoline properties and performance of spark ignition engines: A review

SA Shirazi, B Abdollahipoor, B Windom… - Fuel processing …, 2020 - Elsevier
Supplementing petroleum fuels with sustainable and renewable alternatives is a good
option for increasing the sustainability of transportation fuels. Alcohols are particularly …

Pressure and temperature effects on fuels with varying octane sensitivity at high load in SI engines

JP Szybist, DA Splitter - Combustion and Flame, 2017 - Elsevier
The octane sensitivity (S), defined as the difference between the Research Octane Number
(RON) and the Motor Octane Number (MON), is of increasing interest in spark ignition (SI) …

The role of alcohol biofuels in advanced combustion: An analysis

B Gainey, B Lawler - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
The production of alcohol fuels from bioderived feedstocks and the performance of next
generation stratified low temperature combustion (LTC) modes for internal combustion …

Using machine learning with target-specific feature sets for structure-property relationship modeling of octane numbers and octane sensitivity

F vom Lehn, B Brosius, R Broda, L Cai, H Pitsch - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Measures for fuel auto-ignition behavior in form of research octane number (RON), motor
octane number (MON), and octane sensitivity (OS) are heavily used for evaluation of fuel …

[HTML][HTML] A property database of fuel compounds with emphasis on spark-ignition engine applications

F vom Lehn, L Cai, R Tripathi, R Broda… - Applications in Energy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The growing need for environmental sustainability motivates the search for efficient
petroleum fuel replacements and additives, for which broad and reliable property knowledge …

Experimental study of knock combustion and direct injection on knock suppression in a high compression ratio methanol engine

Q Duan, X Yin, X Wang, H Kou, K Zeng - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Methanol is a competitive low-carbon fuel for spark ignition engines. Though it has higher
knock resistance than gasoline fuel, knocking combustion is still an obstacle for the …

Development of a virtual CFR engine model for knocking combustion analysis

P Pal, C Kolodziej, S Choi, S Som, A Broatch… - … International Journal of …, 2018 - JSTOR
Knock is a major bottleneck to achieving higher thermal efficiency in spark ignition (SI)
engines. The overall tendency to knock is highly dependent on fuel anti-knock quality as …

Numerical analysis of soot emissions from gasoline-ethanol and gasoline-butanol blends under gasoline compression ignition conditions

KC Kalvakala, P Pal, JP Gonzalez, CP Kolodziej… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
In the present work, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of a single-cylinder
gasoline compression ignition (GCI) engine were performed to investigate the impact of …

Fuel property effects on knock propensity and thermal efficiency in a direct-injection spark-ignition engine

Z Yue, S Som - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Engine knock remains one of the major barriers to further improvement in thermal efficiency
of Direct-Injection Spark-Ignition (DISI) engines. While Research Octane Number and Motor …