Study on the influence of alumina nanomethanol fluid on the performance, combustion and emission of DMDF diesel engine

¹ China Automotive Technology & Research Center Co.Ltd, China
² Hefei University of Technology, China

^* Corresponding author: wjiangjun@hfut.edu.cn

Abstract

With the increasingly strict domestic emission regulations, how to reduce diesel emission without affecting its output power has become a hot and important research topic. Due to their unique physical and chemical properties, the combined use of methanol and Al₂O₃ nanoparticles plays a unique role in promoting combustion and reducing emissions. In this study, Al₂O₃ methanol nanofluid fuel was injected into the inlet and diesel fuel was injected into the cylinder to explore the influence of Al₂O₃ nanoparticles on the performance, combustion and emissions of diesel methanol dual fuel (DMDF) entered. The experienced results showed that with the addition of Al₂O₃ nanoparticles in methanol, the peak pressure and heat release rate in the cylinder of the diesel engine were improved, the combustion delay period and the combustion duration were shortened, the fuel consumption rate was reduced by up to 10.8%, and the braking thermal efficiency was increased by 12.11% at most. With the addition of Al₂O₃ nanoparticles, NOx, CO, HC and soot ratio emissions of the engine were reduced, among which the NOx reduction ratio was small, and the maximum reduction ratio of the last three was 28.82%, 83.33% and 29.27% respectively.