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Applied Thermal Engineering

Volume 159, August 2019, 113763

Research Paper

Thermal efficiency improvement of PODE/Gasoline dual-fuel

RCCI high load operation with EGR and air dilution
Hu Wang a, Daojian Liu a, Tianyu Ma a, Laihui Tong b, Zunqing Zheng a, Mingfa Yao a

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Highlights
• 15% ITEg improvement is achieved by air/EGR dilution.

• The total charge heat capacity has greater influence on ITEg than Φ.

• ηc is an important factor to determine ITEg with air/EGR dilution.

Abstract
In recent years, polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (PODE) is used for reactivity gradient
enlargement in direct injection engines due to its high Cetane Number (CN). In the current
study, thermal efficiency improvement of PODE/Gasoline dual-fuel reactivity controlled
compression ignition (RCCI) high load operation with exhausted gas recirculation (EGR) and
air dilution is experimentally investigated, together with a zero-dimension (0-D)
thermodynamic analysis. The experimental result shows that 15% gross indicated thermal
efficiency (ITEg) improvement can be achieved through both air dilution and EGR dilution.
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Air dilution under fixed intake pressure shows significant effects on ITEg improvements. EGR
dilution under fixed equivalence ratio (Φ) slightly reduces the ITEg. Further study with fixed
the total charge heat capacity reveals that at lean conditions, the total charge heat capacity has
greater influence on the combustion processes and ITEg than equivalence ratio. Comparing
the experimental results with the thermodynamic modelling results, it indicates that
combustion efficiency is an important factor that determines the ITEg with air/EGR dilution.
Further analysis reveals that air dilution greatly improves the CO oxidation owing to the
increased oxygen concentration, which obviously improves the combustion efficiency and
ITEg.

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Keywords
Thermal efficiency; EGR dilution; Air dilution; PODE/Gasoline RCCI

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