Experimental study of combustion in a spark ignition engine operating with producer gas from various biomass feedstocks

Tsiakmakis, Stefanos; Mertzis, Dimitrios; Dimaratos, Athanasios; Toumasatos, Zisimos; Samaras, Zissis

doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2014.01.013

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“…Reference [16] shows report an engine operating with biomass producer gas the derating from the designed power rating was in the ranges of 40-50% when the compression ratio (CR) was 7:1 and 20% when was 11:1. It also similar with another literature where de-rating of the genset engine using biomass producer gas was ranges from 40-50% [16], [17], [18]. Fig.…”

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Comparison of an Internal Combustion Engine Derating Operated on Producer Gas from Coal and Biomass Gasification

Efendi

Nurhadi

2016

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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Producer gas is yield gases from gasification that can be burned, composed by CO, H 2 , and CH 4 , and non-combustible gases like CO 2 and N 2. Producer gas utilization for internal combustion engine has been studied, not only from biomass gasification but also from coal gasification. This paper compares the research that has done author using coal gasification with other research results using biomass gasification. Coal gasifier performance test conducted with capacity of 20 kg/h of coal. The proximate and ultimate analysis of raw coal, ash product and producer gas was conducted and comparised. The result of analysis shows that the efficiency of the coal gasification was 61% while range of gasifier efficiency for biomass is between 50-80%. Meanwhile, the experimental results on the performance of internal combustion engines using producer gas shows that the derating for power generation using coal producer gas was 46% and biomass was 20-50% depend on compression ratio of engine and characteristic of producer gas. Therefore, concluded from the experiment result, producer gas from coal gasification is more promising as fuel for internal combustion engine.

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Comparison of an Internal Combustion Engine Derating Operated on Producer Gas from Coal and Biomass Gasification

Efendi

Nurhadi

2016

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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“…Several authors [7,8,[13][14][15][16][17] have studied syngas mixtures and compared them with conventional fuels (gasoline, natural gas, and hydrogen) in terms of engine performance, durability, combustion stability, and exhaust emissions. A reduction in efficiency and power was observed due to low energy density.…”

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Effect of Fuel and Air Dilution on Syngas Combustion in an Optical SI Engine

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To mitigate the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, energy production processes must change from fossil to renewable resources. Bioenergy utilization from agricultural residues can be a step towards achieving this goal. Syngas (fuel obtained from biomass gasification) has been proved to have the potential of replacing fossil fuels in stationary internal combustion engines (ICEs). The processes associated with switching from traditional fuels to alternatives have always led to intense research efforts in order to have a broad understanding of the behavior of the engine in all operating conditions. In particular, attention needs to be focused on fuels containing relatively high concentrations of hydrogen, due to its faster propagation speed with respect to traditional fossil energy sources. Therefore, a combustion study was performed in a research optical SI engine, for a comparison between a well-established fuel such as methane (the main component of natural gas) and syngas. The main goal of this work is to study the effect of inert gases in the fuel mixture and that of air dilution during lean fuelling. Thus, two pure syngas blends (mixtures of CO and H2) and their respective diluted mixtures (CO and H2 with 50vol% of inert gases, CO2 and N2) were tested in several air-fuel ratios (stoichiometric to lean burn conditions). Initially, the combustion process was studied in detail by traditional thermodynamic analysis and then optical diagnostics were applied thanks to the optical access through the piston crown. Specifically, images were taken in the UV-visible spectrum of the entire cycle to follow the propagation of the flame front. The results show that hydrogen promotes flame propagation and reduces its distortion, as well as resulting in flames evolving closer to the spark plug. All syngas blends show a stable combustion process, even in conditions of high air and fuel dilution. In the leanest case, real syngas mixtures present a decrease in terms of performance due to significant reduction in volumetric efficiency. However, this condition strongly decreases pollutant emissions, with nitrogen oxide (NOx) concentrations almost negligible.

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“…Overall efficiencies roughly 20% were reported when the engine was fueled with 100% syngas. Performance of an internal combustion engine fueled with producer gas was also evaluated for Tsiakmakis et al [6] but in this case, the engine was coupled with a fluidized bed reactor. The syngas obtained from three kinds of biomasses was mixed with propane and different blends ratios were used to feed the engine.…”

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Power generation alternatives from biomass gasification using different syngas pathways

Campuzano¹,

Arenas²,

Betancur³

et al. 2015

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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In this work three different ways to produce 1 MWe from biomass gasification syngas are presented. The studied pathways considered the biomass gasification in order to produce syngas able to be transformed into liquid fuels through (i) fermentation and (ii) Fischer Tropsch (FT) synthesis. Later, both liquid fuels were assumed to be powered in a spark ignition engine and in a compression ignition engine, respectively. The third pathway is (iii) the direct use of syngas in a gas-fired reciprocating engine. Syngas composition was predicted from three residual lignocellulosic biomasses (rice husk, sugarcane bagasse and coffee husk) using a stoichiometric equilibrium model. It was found that the direct use of syngas (LHV ~6.72 MJ/Nm 3) needs less biomass (~800 kg/h) to achieve 1 MWe in comparison with the other two pathways. Diesel fuel from FT and ethanol from the fermentation process require around 1500 kg/h and 2500 kg/h of biomass respectively to achieve the same power. The FT synthesis considered the production of a synthetic liquid fuel similar to diesel fuel in terms of heating value (LHV ~44 MJ/kg), while syngas fermentation took into account the ethanol production (LHV ~27 MJ/kg). The above results, for the three different fuels, were assessed considering the thermal efficiencies of each specific internal combustion engine.

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Experimental study of combustion in a spark ignition engine operating with producer gas from various biomass feedstocks

Cited by 55 publications

References 31 publications

Comparison of an Internal Combustion Engine Derating Operated on Producer Gas from Coal and Biomass Gasification

Comparison of an Internal Combustion Engine Derating Operated on Producer Gas from Coal and Biomass Gasification

Effect of Fuel and Air Dilution on Syngas Combustion in an Optical SI Engine

Power generation alternatives from biomass gasification using different syngas pathways

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