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BUTANOL—A SINGLE CYLINDER ENGINE STUDY: ENGINE PERFORMANCE
Author(s) -
Alasfour F. N.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-114x(199701)21:1<21::aid-er231>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - gasoline , thermal efficiency , spark ignition engine , materials science , octane rating , alcohol fuel , petrol engine , methanol , n butanol , brake specific fuel consumption , chemistry , butanol , automotive engineering , waste management , analytical chemistry (journal) , fuel injection , organic chemistry , ethanol , combustion , engineering
The effect of methanol and butanol addition to gasoline on brake specific fuel consumption (b.s.f.c.), exhaust gas temperature, and thermal efficiency has been experimentally investigated. A Hydra single cylinder, spark ignition, fuel injection engine was used over a wide range of fuel/air equivalence ratio (ϕ=0⋅8 to 1⋅3) for 30% volume alcohol–gasoline blends. The goal of this work is to study the engine performance when methanol and butanol–gasoline blends are used. The performance measurements show that there is an increase in b.s.f.c. when using alcohol–gasoline blends, and b.s.f.c. of a butanol–gasoline blend is less than for a methanol–gasoline blend. The experimental results show that the engine thermal efficiency was decreased when fueled with alcohol–gasoline blends. It was found that there was about a 4.5% reduction in engine thermal efficiency at ϕ=1⋅0 when 30% butanol was blended with gasoline compared to pure gasoline. The exhaust gas temperature measurements show that there is an increase in temperature in the case of using gasoline as compared to alcohol–gasoline blends, and that the temperature reaches a maximum at ϕ≈1⋅1 when using gasoline and alcohol–gasoline blends. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.