STUDY ON REFORMED ETHANOL ENGINE
The energy and the environment are the focus cared by the world. Ethanol as engine fuel for the transport facilities has some advantages, such as renewable, comparable power density. In this paper, a new approach –ethanol steam reforming, which uses common industry alcohol, is introduced for the existing engines. The main compositions of the gas from reformed ethanol include H2, CO and unreformed ethanol, and with little CH4, CO2 and C2*. The performances of the reformed ethanol engine, such as power, economy and emissions, have been studied in this paper. Compared to E100-engine and fuel cell, the reformed ethanol engine can be common spark ignition (SI) engine with few structure changes, and the hydrogen enrichment mixture needs no purification. The experimentation results indicate that it is feasible that the reformed ethanol is supplied to the engine. And the ignition performance of the engine can be improved by the mixture with hydrogen-rich. Moreover, lean combustion can be realized in the cylinder. The energy consumption performance and the emission performance are improved remarkably.
You Fubing Li Gesheng Gao Xiaohong
School of Energy and Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430063, China
国际会议
2007世界太阳能大会(Proceedings of ISES Solar World Congress 2007)
北京
英文
2007-09-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）