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Answer Fuel Problems

This document contains multiple chemistry and thermochemistry problems related to fuels and combustion. It includes calculating air-fuel ratios, excess air percentages, anti-knock indices, and ignition delays for various fuel mixtures burning in engines. Problems involve isooctane, isodecane, ethanol, methanol, hexadecane, heptamethylnonane and determining cetane numbers, ignition characteristics, and optimizing fuel injection timing.

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357 views

Answer Fuel Problems

This document contains multiple chemistry and thermochemistry problems related to fuels and combustion. It includes calculating air-fuel ratios, excess air percentages, anti-knock indices, and ignition delays for various fuel mixtures burning in engines. Problems involve isooctane, isodecane, ethanol, methanol, hexadecane, heptamethylnonane and determining cetane numbers, ignition characteristics, and optimizing fuel injection timing.

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Fuel and Thermochemistry

Isooctane is burned with air in an engine at an equivalence ratio of 0.8333. Assuming complete combustion,
write the balanced chemical reaction equation. Calculate:
(a) Air-fuel ratio.
(b) How much excess air is used. [%]
(c) AKI and FS of this fuel.
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Isodecane is used as a fuel. Calculate:
(a) Anti-knock index.
(b) MON if 0.2 gm/L of TEL is added to the fuel.
(c) How many gallons of butene-1 should be added to 10 gallons of isodecane to give a mixture MON of
87.
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A flexible-fuel vehicle operates with a stoichiometric fuel mixture of one-third isooctane,
one-third ethanol, and one-third methanol, by mass. Calculate:
(a) Air-fuel ratio.
(b) MON, RON, FS, and AKI.
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It is desired to find the cetane number of a fuel oil which has a density of 860 kg/m3 and a midpoint boiling
temperature of 229°C. When tested in the standard test engine, the fuel is found to have the same ignition
characteristics as a mixture of 23% hexadecane
and 77% heptamethylnonane. Calculate:
(a) Cetane number of fuel.
(b) Percent error if cetane index is used to approximate the cetane number. [%]
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A CI engine running at 2400 RPM has an ignition delay of 15° of crankshaft rotation. What is the ID in
seconds?
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A ten-cylinder CI engine running at 1295 RPM powers an electric generator. The engine has compression
ratio 16:1 and an average piston speed of 9.5 m/s. Inlet temperature and pressure at the start of compression
are 47 oC and 110 kPa. It is desired that combustion starts at 12o bTDC using fuel with cetane number of
51. Calculate:
(a) The crank angle when fuel injection should start.
(b) Ignition delay of fuel in milliseconds.
N = m/M
y = Ni/Nmix
Bth_mix=Sum(Yi*Bthi)
Type text here
degrees

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