Title: 3Effects of ethyl tert-butyl ether addition to diesel fuel on characteristics of combustion and exhaust 4 emissions of diesel engines 5 6 7 8
Authors: 9Tie Li, Masaru Suzuki, Hideyuki Ogawa 10 The effects of ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE) addition to diesel fuel on the characteristics of 8 combustion and exhaust emissions of a common rail direct injection diesel engine with high rates of 9 cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) were investigated. Test fuels were prepared by blending 0, 10 10, 20, 30 and 40 vol% ETBE to a commercial diesel fuel. Increasing ETBE fraction in the fuel 11 helps to suppress the smoke emission increasing with EGR, but a too high fraction of ETBE leads to 12 misfiring at higher EGR rates. While the combustion noise and NOx emissions increase with 13 increases in ETBE fraction at relatively low EGR rates, they can be suppressed to low levels by 14 increasing EGR. Though there are no significant increases in THC and CO emissions due to ETBE 15 addition to diesel fuel in a wide range of EGR rates, the ETBE blended fuel results in higher aldehyde 16 emissions than the pure diesel fuel at relatively low EGR rates. With the 30% ETBE blended fuel, 17 the operating load range of smokeless, ultra-low NOx (<0.5 g/kWi·h), and efficient diesel combustion 18 with high rates of cooled EGR is extended to higher loads than with the pure diesel fuel. 19 20