This study analyzed factors that influence the ignition delay characteristics of n-heptane/methane-blended fuel. The effects of chemical species, exhaust gas recirculation rate, compression ratio, cool/hot flames, and combustion chamber conditions (temperature, pressure, and O2 concentration) were determined and analyzed using CHEMKIN Pro. The experiment conditions for verification were 550–1000 K at 15 bar with 50% H2/50% CH4 fuel. The main combustion reactions were confirmed through reactivity analysis and sensitivity analysis on the ignition delay time. The ignition delay time at 14.7% O2 concentration was significantly higher than that at 21% O2 concentration by more than 30%. In addition, a higher ratio of methane in the blended fuel increased the ignition delay time as a result of methane dehydrogenation, delaying the ignition of heptane.
The ignition delay time is an important factor to understand the combustion characteristics of internal combustion engine. In this study, ignition delay times of cool and thermal flame were observed separately in homogeneous charge compression ignition(HCCI) engine. This study presents numerical investigation of ignition delay time of n-heptane and alcohol(ethanol and n-butanol) binary fuel. The O2 concentration in the mixture was set 9-10% to simulate high exhaust gas recirculation(EGR) rate condition. The numerical study on the ignition delay time was performed using CHEMKIN codes with various blending ratios and EGR rates. The results revealed that the ignition delay time increased with increasing the alcohol fraction in the mixture due to a decrease of oxidation of n-heptane at the low temperature. From the numerical analysis, ethanol needed more radical and higher temperature than n-butanol for oxidation. In addition, thermal ignition delay time is sharply increasing with decreasing O2 fraction, but cool flame ignition delay time changes negligibly for both binary fuels. Also, in high temperature regime, the ignition delay time showed similar tendency with both blends regardless of blending ratio and EGR rate.
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