Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Users and Conversion Devices
- 1 Aero Gas Turbines
- 2 Ground-Based Gas Turbines
- 3 Reciprocating Engines
- 4 Process Heaters
- 5 Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Production
- Part II Chemical Energy Carriers
- 6 Syngas and Biogas
- 7 Liquid Fuel Synthesis
- 8 Ammonia
- 9 Metal Fuels
- 10 Bio-based Solid Fuels
- Part III Fundamental Combustion Processes
- 11 Fundamentals of Gaseous Combustion
- 12 Liquid Fuel Atomization and Combustion
- 13 Pollutant Emissions of Alternative Fuels
- Part IV Case Studies
- 14 Certification of Drop-In Alternative Fuels for Aviation
- 15 Fuel Composition Influences on Reciprocating Engine Performance
- 16 Near-Zero- and Zero-Carbon Fuels in Industrial Gas Turbines
- 17 Hydrogen Solutions for Net-Zero Power Generation
- Index
15 - Fuel Composition Influences on Reciprocating Engine Performance
from Part IV - Case Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Users and Conversion Devices
- 1 Aero Gas Turbines
- 2 Ground-Based Gas Turbines
- 3 Reciprocating Engines
- 4 Process Heaters
- 5 Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Production
- Part II Chemical Energy Carriers
- 6 Syngas and Biogas
- 7 Liquid Fuel Synthesis
- 8 Ammonia
- 9 Metal Fuels
- 10 Bio-based Solid Fuels
- Part III Fundamental Combustion Processes
- 11 Fundamentals of Gaseous Combustion
- 12 Liquid Fuel Atomization and Combustion
- 13 Pollutant Emissions of Alternative Fuels
- Part IV Case Studies
- 14 Certification of Drop-In Alternative Fuels for Aviation
- 15 Fuel Composition Influences on Reciprocating Engine Performance
- 16 Near-Zero- and Zero-Carbon Fuels in Industrial Gas Turbines
- 17 Hydrogen Solutions for Net-Zero Power Generation
- Index
Summary
The introduction of new fuels into the market is a unique opportunity to take advantage of new fuel compositions to improve the efficiency and emissions of internal combustion reciprocating engines and alternative fuel feedstocks. However, there are numerous challenges that introductions of new fuels face before they can become first legal, then ubiquitous. This chapter reviews four different case studies related to changing fuel composition. In some circumstances, the fuel formulation was changed in seemingly minor ways, and resulted in the unanticipated consequences. In other cases, a fuel change was desired, but an unexpected barrier slowed the introduction of the fuel change. These case studies should be viewed as opportunities to understand the interdependencies that exist and factors that need to be considered when trying to change the fuel in the marketplace.
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- Renewable FuelsSources, Conversion, and Utilization, pp. 501 - 514Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022