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Experimental Research on the Macroscopic and Microscopic Spray Characteristics of Diesel-PODE 3-4 Blends

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  • Yulin Chen

    (College of Mechanical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China)

  • Songtao Liu

    (College of Mechanical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China)

  • Xiaoyu Guo

    (College of Mechanical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China)

  • Chaojie Jia

    (College of Mechanical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China)

  • Xiaodong Huang

    (College of Mechanical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China)

  • Yaodong Wang

    (Department of Engineering, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK)

  • Haozhong Huang

    (College of Mechanical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China)

Abstract

Polyoxymethylene dimethyl ether (PODE) is a low-viscosity oxygenated fuel that can improve the volatility of blended fuels. In this work, the macroscopic and microscopic spray characteristics of diesel-PODE 3-4 under different ambient temperatures and injection pressures (IP) are studied. The studied blends consisted of pure diesel (P0), two diesel blend fuels of 20% (P20) and 50% (P50) by volume fraction of PODE 3-4 . The Mie scattering and Schlieren imaging techniques are used in the experiment. The results show that with the increase in IP, the vapor phase penetration distance and the average cone angle of the three fuels increased, and the Sauter mean diameter (SMD) of the three fuels decreased. When the ambient temperature increased, the vapor phase projection area and the average vapor phase cone angle of P20 and P50 increased, and the SMD decreased, but the vapor phase projection area of pure diesel did not change significantly. The results indicate that the blended fuel with PODE 3-4 has better spray characteristics than P0 at low temperature, and the SMD hierarchy between the three fuels is P0 > P20 > P50. Through the visualization experiment, it is helpful to further understand the evaporation characteristics of different fuel properties and develop appropriate alternative diesel fuel.

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  • Yulin Chen & Songtao Liu & Xiaoyu Guo & Chaojie Jia & Xiaodong Huang & Yaodong Wang & Haozhong Huang, 2021. "Experimental Research on the Macroscopic and Microscopic Spray Characteristics of Diesel-PODE 3-4 Blends," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-24, September.
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