INFLUENCE OF STRUCTURE AND OTHER CHARACTERISTICS OF SUBSTITUTE FUEL COMPONENTS IN PETROL ON ENGINE EFFICIENCY AND POLLUTION.

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: EN3E0053

Project closed

Start date 1 April 1986

End date 31 October 1989

Funded under

• Research and development programme (EEC) in the field of Non-Nuclear Energy, 1985-1988

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Greece

Objective

TO MODIFY PETROL COMPOSITION BY ADDITION OF SUBSTITUTIVE FUEL COMPONENTS AND TO ASSESS THE EFFECT, WITH REGARD TO THE COMPONENT CHEMICAL STRUCTURE, ON THE EFFICIENCY AND POLLUTANT EMISSIONS OF AN S.I. ENGINE OPERATING AT BOTH STANDARD AND REALISTIC CONDITIONS.

IT IS PROPOSED TO STUDY THIS PROBLEM BY COMBINING THE EXPERTISE IN LIQUID FUELS AT THE NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, ATHENS, WITH THAT ENERGY AND COMBUSTION RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD. THE WORK IN ATHENS INCLUDES PREPARATION OF MODEL FUELS, SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL ADDITIVES, OCTANE NUMBER MEASUREMENTS AND VARIABLE COMPRESSION RATIO MEASUREMENTS INCLUDING OCTANE NUMBER AND EXHAUST EMISSIONS AT THE CFR ENGINE. WORK BASED AT SHEFFIELD WILL INCLUDE THE ASSESSMENT OF THE VARIOUS FUEL COMPOSITIONS IN A STANDARD SI ENGINE OPERATING UNDER REALISTIC CONDITIONS; MEASURING COMBUSTION AND BRAKE THERMAL EFFICIENCY WITH FULL ANALYSIS OF EXHAUST GASES.

THE MAIN STAGES OF THE RD WORK IN ATHENS ARE:
1. MODEL FUEL PREPARATION:
A) BASE FUEL WHOSE COMPOSITION VARYING AS TO AROMATE AND DEFINITE CONTENT AND OTHER PARAMETERS SUCH AS METHYL GROUP CONCENTRATION AND RELATIVE POSITION, TYPE OF ALKANE CHAINS AND RINGS ETC...
B) CHECK OF FUEL ADDITIVE COMPONENTS AS ALCOHOL AND OTHER IN FUNCTION OF CONCENTRATION AND STRUCTURE.
2. SYNTHESIS OF NEW COMPONENTS.
3. OCTANE NUMBER MEASUREMENTS = RON AND MON MEASUREMENTS OF THE FUEL BLENDS WILL BE MADE.
4. VARIABLE COMPRESSION RATIO MEASUREMENTS - ASSESSMENT OF THE MODEL FUELS BY CHECKING THEIR BEHAVIOUR UNDER INCREASED COMPRESSION RATIO OPERATION ON CFR ENGINE.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › energy and fuels › liquid fuels
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › organic chemistry › hydrocarbons
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › environmental sciences › pollution
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › organic chemistry › alcohols

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Programme(s)

• FP1-ENNONUC 3C - Research and development programme (EEC) in the field of Non-Nuclear Energy, 1985-1988

Topic(s)

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Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Iroon Polytechnioy 5 ; 15780 ATHENS ; Greece
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

University of Sheffield

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Western Bank ; S10 2TN Sheffield
• Total cost: No data