Impacts of advanced diesel combustion operation and fuel formulation on soot nanostructure and reactivity

Sun, Chenxi; Martin, Jonathan; Boehman, André L.

doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2020.118080

Impacts of advanced diesel combustion operation and fuel formulation on soot nanostructure and reactivity

Journal Article · Thu May 28 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Fuel

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2020.118080· OSTI ID:1799165

Sun, Chenxi ^[1]; Martin, Jonathan ^[2]; ^[2]

Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); OSTI
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Advanced diesel combustion, accomplished via a single pulse fuel injection and high levels of exhaust gas recirculation (referred to as “PCCI”, partially-premixed charge compression ignition), is shown to be a path to reduce oxides of nitrogen and particulate matter simultaneously. This is well established in the literature. Less established is the extent to which such dilute combustion processes influence soot formation and affect soot that is emitted from diesel engines under such combustion modes. This work focuses on characterization of the nanostructure and oxidative reactivity of soot generated by a light-duty turbodiesel engine operating under a PCCI combustion mode, a dilute, low-temperature combustion process. Previous work on a type of PCCI combustion, referred to as high-efficiency clean combustion (HECC), showed soot samples having a fullerenic nanostructure, characterized by high levels of tortuosity of the fringe layers as seen in transmission electron micrograph images and as quantified using an image processing algorithm. Thermogravimetric analysis of the HECC mode soot samples showed that they displayed higher rates of oxidation than soot samples from a conventional diesel combustion mode. The present work returns to PCCI combustion, considering the timing of the main fuel injection, and the effects of operating on fuels rich in n-alkanes, particularly a fuel produced from a low temperature Fischer-Tropsch process (LTFT) and a renewable diesel fuel (RD) produced via hydrodeoxygenation of a plant oil. PCCI combustion conditions yield soot that shows higher reactivity compared to soot from the conventional combustion mode regardless of fuel type. LTFT and RD fuels produce soots with lower reactivity compared to ULSD. Soots produced from PCCI combustion have higher surface oxygen concentration and higher proportion of amorphous carbon. In addition, TEM images show that PCCI soots from all three fuels have smaller primary particle and particle aggregate sizes, and smaller graphene layers. These properties explain the higher reactivity of soot from PCCI combustion. The less reactive soots, which are produced from LTFT and RD fuel under conventional combustion, show internal burning during oxidation. However, soots with higher reactivity which are produced from late injection PCCI combustion and ULSD show shrinking core oxidation, most likely because of their overall amorphous structure.

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Research Organization:: Volvo Technology of America, Inc., Washington, DC (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Grant/Contract Number:: EE0004232

OSTI ID:: 1799165

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1775773

Journal Information:: Fuel, Journal Name: Fuel Journal Issue: C Vol. 276; ISSN 0016-2361

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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