Ignition source characteristics for natural-gas-burning vehicle engines

Abstract

Natural gas is a promising alternative fuel to petrol for vehicles. However, one of the factors hampering the design of natural gas burning engines for domestic cars is the long delay from the time of ignition to the commencement of significant heat release. This is mainly due to the substantially endothermic phase during the early development of the combustion in natural gas. It is well known that high-energy, extended or multiple ignition sources can reduce this problem. The present article uses a large-scale computer simulation of a natural gas engine to examine the issues affecting the optimization of such ignition sources.

Full Chemical Kinetic Simulation of Biogas Early Phase Combustion in SI Engines

“…The new gas phase temperature is then updated at the end of the time step in the CFD solver, which is consistent with the KIVA-3V formulation. A similar approach was used by Yossefi et al ,, to simulate natural gas combustion in SI engines and by Kong to simulate DME mixture combustion in a HCCI engine. The governing equations for the constant volume adiabatic reactorare shown in Appendix I.…”