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Troels Dyhr Pedersen.indd - Solid Mechanics

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13 Summary and conclusion<br />

The focus of the project was within the following subjects:<br />

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• Manipulation of combustion phasing by use of dual fuel and EGR<br />

• Reduction of HCCI combustion noise<br />

Control of combustion phasing was investigated first by a theoretical study on the<br />

reaction kinetics of DME in combination with methanol. This study was made with<br />

CHEMKIN II, using primarily the homogeneous batch reactor model to model the HCCI<br />

engine. The comprehensive detailed mechanism for combustion of DME developed by<br />

Lawrence Livermore was reduced to a simple scheme, which is valid only for lean<br />

combustion of DME. The reduced scheme also includes reaction paths for methanol and<br />

methane, which are both commonly used in combination with DME to moderate the<br />

combustion phasing. The simple reaction mechanism for DME combustion was first<br />

developed to obtain a fundamental understanding of the combustion process. The<br />

conclusion obtained from this study was:<br />

• The low temperature reactions are self terminating due to a shift in balance<br />

between chain branching and chain terminating reaction paths<br />

• The low temperature reactions of DME are inhibited when methanol is<br />

added, due to methanol consuming OH radicals in chain terminating<br />

reactions<br />

• The timing of the main heat release is delayed when the low temperature<br />

reactions are inhibited by addition of methanol<br />

• It is possible to operate at higher compression ratios as well as higher<br />

equivalence ratios, when methanol is added to the combustion<br />

An experimental study on combustion of DME and methanol was carried out as well, on<br />

a 4.6 L, 4 cylinder engine at NTSEL in Tokyo. The engine had a compression ratio of<br />

14.5, which enabled both normal DI CI operation and HCCI operation. DME was<br />

injected directly with a custom common rail system at an equivalence ratio of 0.25, while<br />

methanol was injected at the inlet port. The engine was furthermore equipped with an<br />

EGR system capable of recycling and cooling a large fraction of the exhaust gas. This<br />

capability was used in another experiment, were EGR gas was used to obtain a delay in<br />

combustion phasing. The experiments demonstrated the following:<br />

• A DI CI engine with a low compression ratio can be operated in both DI CI<br />

and HCCI modes without need for further modifications<br />

• Combustion phasing can be retarded with a modest amount of methanol<br />

added to the inlet air

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