Numerical study on the combustion and emission characteristics of a methanol/diesel reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI) engine

Effects of fuel ratio and injection timing on gasoline/biodiesel fueled RCCI engine: A modeling study

“…Some researchers turned their attention on applying alternative and renewable fuels to RCCI engines. For example, in the previous studies, natural gas [12,13], methanol [10,[14][15][16], ethanol [17] were used as the low reactivity fuel; meanwhile, diesel was still adopted as the high reactivity fuel.…”

Optimization of methanol powered diesel engine: A CFD approach

“…EGR leads to incomplete combustion in low surrounding temperature due to dilution of intake air and another reason could be the poor fuel utilization inside combustion chamber [16,27]. Fig.…”

“…The result shows the lower CO and soot emission; whereas NOx remained same at full load. Li et al [16] studied the reactivity controlled compression ignition engine (RCCI) by numerical simulation approach and revealed that the HC and soot emission decreases with moderate methanol quantity and advanced injection timing.…”

Effects of engine misfire on regulated, unregulated emissions from a methanol-fueled vehicle and its ozone forming potential

“…For both energy sustainability and greenhouse-gas reduction purposes, methanol serves as a partial http or neat alternative of gasoline in some countries like China and Iceland. In addition to a gasoline surrogate, methanol has been also considered as a promising additive for diesel/biodiesel [3][4][5][6][7], DME [8,9] and gasoline-ethanol-methanol ternary fuel [10]. Existing researches also consider methanol-hydrogen blends as a feasible option for future spark-ignition engines [11][12][13].…”