• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.158-162
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• 2010

The effect of fuel injection characteristics on engine performance has been known for improving fuel economy and emission reduction. In this study, the spray characteristics of crude palm oil blended fuel with conventional diesel fuel was investigated. The experiments were performed to evaluate the effect of crude palm oil blending ratio and injection pressure on the spray behavior. The droplet size of injected fuel was analyzed through laser diffraction particle analyzer (LDPA). Also, spray atomization characteristics were investigated in terms of Sauter mean diameter (SMD) and droplet distribution at various injection conditions. Fuel containing crude palm oil has different spray pattern on account of the high viscosity. Through those experimental results, we found that the increase of blending ratio made droplet size larger, SMD of biodiesel 100% was increased 30.2% than that of diesel fuel 100% under injection pressure of 60 MPa.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.52-58
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• 2004

To develop a low emission engine, it is necessary to obtain some better quality of automotive fuels. Sulfur in fuel is transformed to sulfate-laden PM as DOC is applied. Therefore, it necessary to provide low sulfur fuels before DOC is applied. According to the specification of test fuels, flash point, distillation 90％, cetane index are improved but viscosity is decreased in the process of desulfurization. Excessively reduced sulfur may cause to decrease lubricity of fuel and engine performance in fuel injection system. Therefore, this research was emphasized how the application of Bio-diesel affects on the emission characteristics and engine performance under the circumstance of ULSD and DOC.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제36권7호
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• pp.745-752
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• 2012

디젤엔진은 바이오연료 적용을 위한 엔진으로서 가솔린엔진과 비교해 사용연료가 바이오연료와 유사한 높은 세탄가를 가지며, 가솔린엔진과 달리 점화계통 장치의 불필요 등 기존 엔진의 개조비용 등에서 유리한 장점이 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 상용 디젤 엔진의 커먼레일 분사시스템을 사용하여 바이오연료인 식물성 팜유의 분무거동특성을 해석하고, 그 결과를 기존의 디젤엔진 연료인 경유와 비교 분석하였다. 실험변수로서는 분사압력과 경유에 대한 바이오디젤 연료의 혼합비율(BD3, BD5, BD20, BD30, BD50, BD100)을 달리하였다. 분사압력은 500bar, 1000bar, 1500bar 및 1600bar로 설정하고 분사기간은 $500{\mu}s$로 동일하게 하였다. 본 연구의 결과로서, 분사압력이 동일한 경우 사용한 바이오디젤 연료의 혼합비 변화에 대한 거시적 분무거동특성(분무선단도달거리 및 분무각)의 변화는 뚜렷하지 않았다. 특히 분무각의 경우 본 연구의 모든 실험조건에 있어서 약 $15^{\circ}$의 값을 나타내었다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.762-767
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• 2009

해외 열대작물 씨앗에서 추출한 식물성 오일을 이용하여 바이오디젤을 생산하고 물성분석을 통해 차량연료로서의 사용가능성을 검토하는 연구를 수행하였다. 유리지방산 함량이 높은 열대작물 오일의 효율적인 바이오디젤 생산을 위해서는 유리지방산을 산촉매로 에스테르화한 후 전이에스테르화 반응하는 2단계 반응공정의 적용이 필요하였다. 전처리(에스테르화) 반응에 적합한 촉매를 선정하기 위해 3가지 산 촉매의 비교실험 수행 결과 황산이 최적 촉매임을 확인하였고, 반응표면분석법(response surface method, RSM)에 의해 도출한 최적 반응조건은 황산 촉매 0.982%와 메탄올 26.7%로 나타났다. 전이에스테르화 반응에 대한 최적화 실험을 반응표면분석법에 근거하여 수행하고, 결과로 KOH 촉매 1.24%, 메탄올 22.76%로 확인되었지만 본 연구팀의 선행 실험의 반응조건(KOH 0.8%)보다 과량의 촉매가 투입된 것으로 나타났다. 이에 대한 확인실험으로 메탄올과 촉매 투입량에 대한 추가 실험을 수행하였으며, 그 결과로서 최적 반응조건으로 KOH 촉매 0.8%와 메탄올:오일 몰비 6.2:1로 도출하였으며 반응생성물의 분석결과 지방산 메틸에스테르(fatty acid methyl ester, FAME) 100.8%, 산가 0.45 mgKOH/g, 수분 0.00%, 산화안정성 0.70 h, 총 글리세롤 함량 0.04%, Mono-glyceride 함량 0.04%, Di-glyceride 함량 0.01%, Tri-glyceride 함량 0.00%, 동점도($40^{\circ}C$에서) $4.041mm^2/s$, 저온필터막힘점 $1.0^{\circ}C$로 주요 바이오디젤 품질규격을 만족하는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.80-87
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• 2010

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of ethanol blending ratio and fuel temperature in diesel-ethanol blended fuel on the spray-atomization characteristics in a high pressure common-rail injection system. In this work, a diesel fuel and three blended fuels were used as test fuels. Blended fuels were made by blending ethanol with a purity 99.9% to diesel fuel, from 0% to 30%. In order to keep diesel-ethanol blending stability, 5% of biodiesel fuel as volumetric ratio was added into test fuels. The fuel temperature was controled in steps with 40K, from 290K to 370K. Macroscopic spray characteristics were investigated by analyzing the spray tip penetration and spray cone angle through spray images obtained from visualization system. In addition, in order to study microscopic spray characteristics of ethanol blended fuels, the droplet diameter, was analyzed using the droplet measuring system. It is revealed that the spray tip penetration is similar regardless of ethanol blending ratio. As ethanol blending ratio is increased, the spray cone angle becomes wider. It is shown that the spray cone angle is affected by low viscosity and density of ethanol. As the fuel temperature increases, the spray tip penetration and spray cone angle become shorter and narrower respectively. The SMD of ethanol blending fuels is smaller than that of diesel fuel because of low viscosity and surface tension of ethanol.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.91-97
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• 2010

This paper described the effects of DME blended fuel on the engine combustion and emission characteristics of four cylinder CRDI diesel engine. Biodiesel was added into the DME fuel in order to improve the low kinematic viscosity of DME fuel. In this work, the experiment was performed under th various injection timings and injection strategy at constant engine speed and engine load. To maintain the fuel pressure and temperature, pressure and temperature controllers were installed to the DME fuel system. The results show that ignition delay was shortened and combustion duration was extended when DME blended fuel is supplied. Despite of slightly higher NOx emission with DME blended fuel at equal conditions in comparison with those of diesel fuel, the engine showed lower HC and CO emission characteristics.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회B
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• pp.2934-2939
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• 2008

We conducted a test of a direct burning of crude Jatropha oil (CJO) in a commercial boiler system. The fuel, crude Jatropha oil is not biodiesel which comes from transeterification process of bio oil, but it is pure plant oil. The higher heating value (HHV) of the CJO is 39.3 MJ/kg (9,380 kcal/kg) and is higher than that of a commercial heating oil, 37.9 MJ/kg. The kinematic viscosity of CJO is 36.2 mm2/s at $40^{\circ}C$ and 8.0 mm2/s at $100^{\circ}C$. The burner used in the test is a commercial burner for a commercial heatingoil and its capacity is 140 kW (120,000 kcal/h). We did a preliminary test whether the combustion is stable or not. The preliminary test was a kind of open air combustion test using the commercial burner with crude Jatropha oil. We found that the combustion can be stable if the crude Jatrophaoil temperature is higher than $90^{\circ}C$. We measured the flue gas concentration by using a gas analyzer. The NOx concentration is $80{\sim}100\;ppm$ and CO concentration is nearly 0 ppm at flue gas O2 concentration of 3.0 and 4.5%.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.160-165
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• 2007

In this study, the breakup characteristics of mono disperse droplets were studied with various fuels, ethanol, diesel fuel, biodiesel fuel extracted from soybean oil, and pure water. In order to investigate the droplet behavior in air cross-flow conditions, the experimental equipment was composed of a droplet generator with an air nozzle, and a high-magnification photo detecting system. Droplets produced by the droplet generator were injected into the air stream flowing normal to a direction of liquid drop jet. Digital images of the droplet behavior in air flow field were recorded by controlling the air flow rate. From the inspections, droplet breakup mechanism is primarily classified into the two kinds of stage, first breakup stage and second breakup stage. At the first breakup stage, droplet deformation rate seems to be affected by the force induced by the surface tension and the viscosity. On the other hand, at the second breakup stage, droplet is broken up mainly induced by the surface tension, so the breakup transition can be divided by the regular Weber number.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.136-147
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• 2015

신재생에너지 공급 의무화제도(Renewable Portfolio Standard(RPS))가 시행됨에 따라, 발전 사업자들은 의무공급량 이행을 위해 발전용 바이오중유를 사용하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 발전용 바이오중유의 원료물질별 물성과 원료 조성에 따른 발전용 바이오중유의 품질특성을 알아보았다. 발전용 바이오중유와 원료유지의 연료특성은 전산가, 동점도, 금속분 등 고시 상 품질기준 항목을 분석하였으며, 적외선 분광광도계와 고성능 액체크로마토그래피를 이용하여 조성분포를 분석하였다. 팜유계열의 저가의 고산가 유지는 유리지방산 함량이 높아 전산가가 높고, 금속분에 의한 회분함량이 높았으며, 바이오디젤 공정부산물은 점도가 높았다. 동점도, 전산가, 금속분과 같은 발전용 바이오중유의 연료특성은 원료물질 의 조성 및 혼합비와 관련이 깊다.