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Download or read book Hydrogen Enrichment in Internal Combustion Engines written by Eddie Allan Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation was made to determine the effects of hydrogen enrichment of ethanol at ultra-lean operating regimes utilizing both experimental and computational methods. A 0.745 liter 2-cylinder SI engine was modified to operate on both hydrogen and ethanol fuels. The study looked at part throttle, fixed RPM operation of 0%, 15%, and 30% hydrogen fuel mixtures operating in ultra-lean operating regimes. Data were collected to calculate NO and HC emissions, power, thermal efficiency, volumetric efficiency, brake-specific fuel consumption, and Wiebe burn fraction curves. The data from the experiments were used to develop an empirically based computational engine model utilizing Ricardo's WAVE. Once calibrated, WAVE combustion software was shown to be capable of accurately predicting the results of power and emissions of the ultra-lean hydrogen and ethanol mixtures. It was shown that hydrogen enrichment of ethanol demonstrated an ability to reduce NOx and stabilize and accelerate the combustion process. Both the model and experiments showed that operating near the LOL at both 15% and 30% hydrogen by volume reduced engine out NOx emissions by more than 95% as compared to stoichiometric gasoline operation. This reduction is comparable to the efficiency of modern three-way catalyst and could offer an alternative to current NOx reduction technologies. Power, thermal efficiency, and volumetric efficiency were not affected by the hydrogen mixture at a given equivalence ratio. However, hydrogen addition allowed an increase in the lean operating limit which helped further reduce NOx emissions, but at reduced power and thermal efficiency.