The use of renewable natural gas and green hydrogen can significantly reduce the carbon footprint of engines. For future spark ignition engines, lean burn strategy and high compression ratio need to be adopted to further improve thermal efficiency, reducing energy consumption. The efficacy of the ignition system is essential to initiate self-sustainable flame under those extreme conditions. In this work, a rapid compression machine is employed to compress air-fuel mixture to engine-like boundary conditions before the spark event to experimentally investigate the ignition and combustion characteristics of the methane-air mixtures under extreme lean conditions. Hydrogen is also added to support the ignition process and enhance flame propagation speed. Lean methane-air mixtures with excess air ratio up to 2.8 are used, with 10 vol% hydrogen addition into the methane fuel. The ignition criteria under various ignition strategies are explored. Both in-cylinder pressure and high-speed direct imaging are collected to analyze combustion parameters, such as heat release rate and flame propagation speed. The impact of discharge current amplitude and duration on the lean burn limit of the fuel-air mixture is investigated.


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    Title :

    Effective Ignition of Lean Methane/Hydrogen Mixture in a Rapid Compression Machine


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:
    Reader, Graham (author) / Jin, Long (author) / Wang, Meiping (author) / Zheng, Ming (author) / Yu, Xiao (author)

    Conference:

    WCX SAE World Congress Experience ; 2023



    Publication date :

    2023-04-11




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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