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- Babayev, Rafig, 1995, et al.
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Computational comparison of the conventional diesel and hydrogen direct-injection compression-ignition combustion engines
- 2022
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Ingår i: Fuel. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-2361. ; 307
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Most research and development on hydrogen (H2) internal combustion engines focus on premixed-charge spark ignition (SI) or diesel-hydrogen dual-fuel technologies. Premixed charge limits the engine efficiency, power density, and safety, while diesel injections give rise to CO2 and particulate emissions. This paper demonstrates a non-premixed compression-ignition (CI) neat H2 engine concept that uses H2 pilots for ignition. It compares the CI H2 engine to an equivalent diesel engine to draw fundamental insights about the mixing and combustion processes. The Converge computational fluid dynamics solver is used for all simulations. The results show that the brake thermal efficiency of the CI H2 engine is comparable or higher than diesel, and the molar expansion with H2 injections at TDC constitutes 5–10 % of the total useful work. Fuel-air mixing in the free-jet phase of combustion is substantially higher with H2 due to hydrogen's gaseous state, low density, high injection velocity, and transient vortices, which contribute to the 3 times higher air entrainment into the quasi-steady-state jet regions. However, the H2 jet momentum is up to 4 times lower than for diesel, which leads to not only ineffective momentum-driven global mixing but also reduced heat transfer losses with H2. The short H2 flame quenching distance may also be inconsequential for heat transfer in CI engines. Finally, this research enables future improvements in CI H2 engine efficiency by hypothesizing a new optimization path, which maximizes the free-jet phase of combustion, hence is totally different from that for conventional diesel engines.
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- Babayev, Rafig, 1995, et al.
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Computational optimization of a hydrogen direct-injection compression-ignition engine for jet mixing dominated nonpremixed combustion
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Engine Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1468-0874 .- 2041-3149. ; 23:5, s. 754-768
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hydrogen (H2) nonpremixed combustion has been showcased as a potentially viable and preferable strategy for direct-injection compression-ignition (DICI) engines for its ability to deliver high heat release rates and low heat transfer losses, in addition to potentially zero CO2 emissions. However, this concept requires a different optimization strategy compared to conventional diesel engines, prioritizing a combustion mode dominated by free turbulent jet mixing. In the present work, this optimization strategy is realized and studied computationally using the CONVERGE CFD solver. It involves adopting wide piston bowl designs with shapes adapted to the H2 jets, altered injector umbrella angle, and an increased number of nozzle orifices with either smaller orifice diameter or reduced injection pressure to maintain constant injector flow rate capacity. This work shows that these modifications are effective at maximizing free-jet mixing, thus enabling more favorable heat release profiles, reducing wall heat transfer by 35%, and improving indicated efficiency by 2.2 percentage points. However, they also caused elevated incomplete combustion losses at low excess air ratios, which may be eliminated by implementing a moderate swirl, small post-injections, and further optimized jet momentum and piston design. Noise emissions with the optimized DICI H2 combustion are shown to be comparable to those from conventional diesel engines. Finally, it is demonstrated that modern engine concepts, such as the double compression-expansion engine, may achieve around 56% brake thermal efficiency with the DICI H2 combustion, which is 1.1 percentage point higher than with diesel fuel. Thus, this work contributes to the knowledge base required for future improvements in H2 engine efficiency.
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- Babayev, Rafig, 1995, et al.
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Double compression-expansion engine (DCEE) fueled with hydrogen: Preliminary computational assessment
- 2022
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Ingår i: Transportation Engineering. - : Elsevier BV. - 2666-691X. ; 8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hydrogen (H2) is currently a highly attractive fuel for internal combustion engines (ICEs) owing to the prospects of potentially near-zero emissions. However, the production emissions and cost of H2 fuel necessitate substantial improvements in ICE thermal efficiency. This work aims to investigate a potential implementation of H2 combustion in a highly efficient double compression-expansion engine (DCEE). DICI nonpremixed H2 combustion mode is used for its superior characteristics, as concluded in previous studies. The analysis is performed using a 1D GT-Power software package, where different variants of the DICI H2 and diesel combustion cycles, obtained experimentally and numerically (3D CFD) are imposed in the combustion cylinder of the DCEE. The results show that the low jet momentum, free jet mixing dominated variants of the DICI H2 combustion concept are preferred, owing to the lower heat transfer losses and relaxed requirements on the fuel injection system. Insulation of the expander and removal of the intercooling improve the engine efficiency by 1.3 and 0.5%-points, respectively, but the latter leads to elevated temperatures in the high-pressure tank, which makes the selection of its materials harder but allows the use of cheaper oxidation catalysts. The results also show that the DCEE performance is insensitive to combustion cylinder temperatures, making it potentially suitable for other high-octane fuels, such as methane, methanol, ammonia, etc. Finally, a brake thermal efficiency of 56% is achieved with H2 combustion, around 1%-point higher than with diesel. Further efficiency improvements are also possible with a fully optimized H2 combustion system.
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