Chemical model of gasoline-ethanol blends for internal combustion engine applications
Journal article, 2010

A semi-detailed chemical mechanism for combustion of gasoline-ethanol blends, which is based on sub-mechanisms of gasoline surrogate and for ethanol is developed and validated aiming at CFD engine modeling. The gasoline surrogate is composed of iso-octane, toluene, and n-heptane in volumetric proportions of 55%:35%:10%, respectively. In this way, the hydrogen-carbon atomic ratio H/C, which is around 1.87 for real gasoline, is accurately reproduced as well as a mixture equivalence ratio that is important for Gasoline Direct Injection engine applications. The integrated mechanism for gasoline-ethanol blends includes 120 species participating in 677 reactions. The mechanism is tested against experimental data on ignition delay times and laminar flame speeds, obtained for various n-heptane/iso-octane/toluene/ethanol-air mixtures under various equivalence ratios, initial temperatures, and pressures. Chemical, thermodynamic and transport properties used in the calculations are discussed.

Author

Chen Huang

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Combustion and Propulsion Systems

Valeri Golovitchev

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Combustion and Propulsion Systems

Andrei Lipatnikov

Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Combustion and Propulsion Systems

SAE Technical Papers

01487191 (ISSN) 26883627 (eISSN)

Subject Categories

Energy Engineering

Chemical Process Engineering

Other Chemical Engineering

DOI

10.4271/2010-01-0543

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