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Title: | Experimental study of the effect of C8 oxygenates on sooting processes in high pressure spray flames |
Authors: | Ruiz-Rodriguez, I Cracknell, R Parkes, M Megaritis, T Ganippa, L |
Keywords: | oxygenates;soot;combustion fundamentals;constant volume chamber |
Issue Date: | 15-Jul-2020 |
Publisher: | Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Combustion Institute. |
Citation: | Ruiz-Rodriguez, I., Cracknell, R., Parkes, M., Megaritis, T. and Ganippa, L. (2020) 'Experimental study of the effect of C8 oxygenates on sooting processes in high pressure spray flames', Combustion and Flame, 220, pp. 235-46. doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.06.015. |
Abstract: | © 2020 The Authors. Oxygenated compounds have the ability to reduce soot emissions and to improve the combustion efficiency in engines. Most studies have focused on the soot reduction potential of shorter carbon chain oxygenates, whilst longer carbon chain oxygenates are still relatively unexplored. In this work, the soot reduction potential of long carbon chain oxygenates having similar thermo-physical and chemical properties to those of diesel have been studied, viz., 2-octanone (ketone), 1-octanol (alcohol), hexyl acetate (ester) and octanal (aldehyde). These oxygenates were injected at high pressure into a constant volume chamber maintained at high ambient temperature conditions, and their spray flames were investigated using a high-speed, two-colour pyrometry system. It was found that for the same injected fuel mass, the oxygenates reduced the overall soot when compared to diesel. Small differences in sooting tendencies were observed between different oxygenated moieties but these were smaller than those relative to diesel. The absence of aromatic groups and the presence of oxygen directly bonded to carbon atoms seemed to have a larger effect on soot reduction than the oxygenated functional group. The oxygenates altered the local oxygen equivalence ratio in the spray, influencing the soot formation and its distribution in the flame. Under the high pressure conditions studied, the average sooting tendency of the long carbon-chain oxygenates studied increased in the order of: ester< aldehyde ~ alcohol<ketone. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/21353 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.06.015 |
ISSN: | 0010-2180 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Papers |
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