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    Influence of piston bowl geometry on combustion and emission characteristics
    (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2019) ÖZDEMİR, MEHMED RAFET; Sener, Ramazan; Ozdemir, Mehmed R.; Yangaz, Murat U.
    Together with the global energy concerns, the norms are getting stringent to prevent the emission threat. There are on-going studies on systems working with both fossil and renewable energy sources aiming to create more efficient and less emissive processes and devices. Accordingly, a set of numerical simulations was performed to examine the effect of the bowl shape of a piston on the performance behaviour, emission rates and combustion characteristics in a four-cylinder, four strokes, water-cooled compression ignition engine using n-heptane (C7H16) as fuel. Six different piston bowl geometries, five from the literature and proposed one, were utilized having different length-to-diameter ratio, curvature and sidewall radius. The study was conducted at 1750 r/min engine speed and a constant compression ratio with a full performance condition. The intake and exhaust valves have been considered as closed during the analysis to provide the variation of crank angle from 300 CA to 495 CA. The results showed that the piston bowl geometry has a significant impact on the rate of heat release, in-cylinder pressure, in-cylinder temperature, and emission trends in the engine. Among the piston bowl geometries studied, design DE and design DF exhibited better combustion characteristics and relatively lower emission trends compared to other designs. The observed rate of heat release, in-cylinder pressure and in-cylinder temperature magnitudes of these two geometries was higher in comparison to other geometries. Moreover, the trade-off for NOx emission was also observed higher for these piston bowl designs.
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    Energy, Exergy and Exergo-Economic Characteristics of Hydrogen Enriched Hydrocarbon-Based Fuels in a Premixed Burner
    (TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, 2021) YILMAZ, İLKER TURGUT; Ozdemir, Mehmed Rafet; Yangaz, Murat Umut; Yilmaz, Ilker Turgut
    The enrichment of conventional fuels by hydrogen is quite popular owing to positive environmental aspects compared to the main fuel. In most of the studies, the entropy analysis was not examined in detail. In this research, exergy (second law) analysis of hydrogen-enriched methane, natural gas, propane, LPG, and biogas were analyzed using the numerical model in a premixed burner due to their wide usage in the industry as well as in the household appliances. In the numerical model, the discrete ordinates radiation and Realizable k- epsilon turbulence models were coupled with the premixed combustion model. The rate of increase for hydrogen of each fuel is considered as 10%. The premixed burner exhibited better performance in terms of energy and exergy with the rise of hydrogen enrichment. The most improvement was observed at biogas tests. The results showed that the chemical composition of the base fuel is a significant parameter that affects the exergy and energy capability of the burner due to chain reactions of radicals in the base fuel with hydrogen. It can be concluded that the hydrogen enrichment of biogas in premixed burners is promising in comparison with other tested fuels from both energy and exergy perspective.
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    Combustion performance of hydrogen-enriched fuels in a premixed burner
    (TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2020) ÖZDEMİR, MEHMED RAFET; Yangaz, Murat Umut; Ozdemir, Mehmed Rafet; Sener, Ramazan
    Premixed burners have been widely used in many applications for both industrial and household appliances. For this reason, it is very important to enhance the combustion and emission efficiency of premixed burners because of their strong position in the global dimension. On the other hand, the addition of hydrogen to various fuels has been a research topic in the last decade due to its environmental and economic positive effects. In this study, the effect of hydrogen addition to different gaseous fuels at different rates has been investigated in a premixed burner. A numerical parametric study has been carried out using a commercial CFD code. The gaseous fuels namely; methane, propane, LPG and natural gas have been enriched by different hydrogen addition rates with a 10% increment. Moreover, the results of pure hydrogen have been presented. The results reveal that the combustion efficiency for all fuels has been affected positively with hydrogen enrichment except for certain gas compositions. Furthermore, this study has shown that the hydrogen addition in general, decreases the unburnt HC and CO emissions.