MEASURING AND COMPARING THE IGNITION DELAY TIMES OF DIESEL, ETHANOL ADDITIVE AND BIODIESEL USING A SHOCK TUBE

Abstract

A burning process in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine is very important to know the maximum temperature of the gases, the speed of combustion, the ignition delay time of fuel and air mixture exact moment at which ignition will occur. The automobilist industry has invested considerable amounts of resources in numerical modeling and simulations in order to obtain relevant information about the processes in the combustion chamber and then extract the maximum engine performance control the emi…