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  • Publication
    Performance and combustion characteristics of a DI diesel engine fueled with waste palm oil and canola oil methyl esters
    (ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2009) SAYIN, CENK; Ozsezen, Ahmet Necati; Canakci, Mustafa; Turkcan, Ali; Sayin, Cenk
    This study discusses the performance and combustion characteristics of a direct injection (DI) diesel engine fueled with biodiesels such as waste (frying) palm oil methyl ester (WPOME) and canola oil methyl ester (COME). In order to determine the performance and combustion characteristics, the experiments were conducted at the constant engine speed mode (1500 rpm) under the full load condition of the engine. The results indicated that when the test engine was fueled with WPOME or COME, the engine performance slightly weakened; the combustion characteristics slightly changed when compared to petroleum based diesel fuel (PBDF). The biodiesels caused reductions in carbon monoxide (CO), unburned hydrocarbon (HC) emissions and smoke opacity, but they caused to increases in nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Exhaust Emissions and Combustion Characteristics of a Direct Injection (DI) Diesel Engine Fueled with Methanol-Diesel Fuel Blends at Different Injection Timings
    (AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2008) SAYIN, CENK; Canakci, Mustafa; Sayin, Cenk; Gumus, Metin
    In the recent years, environmental concerns and depletion in petroleum resources have forced researchers to concentrate on finding renewable alternatives to conventional petroleum fuels. Therefore, alcohols as renewable and alternative energy sources for the diesel engines gain importance. For this reason, in this study, the performance, exhaust emissions, and combustion characteristics of a single cylinder diesel engine have been experimentally investigated under different injection timings when methanol-blended diesel fuel was used from 0 to 15%, with an increment of 5%. The tests were conducted at three different injection timings (15 degrees, 20 degrees, and 25 degrees CA BTDC) by changing the thickness of advance shim. All tests were conducted at four different loads (5, 10, 15, and 20 Nm) at constant engine speed of 2200 rpm. The experimental test results showed that BSFC, BSEC, combustion efficiency, and NOx and CO2 emissions increased as BTE, rate of heat release, peak cylinder pressure, smoke number, and CO and UHC emissions decreased with an increasing amount of methanol in the fuel blend. In comparison to the values at the original injection timing (20 degrees CA BTDC), the values at the retarded injection timing (15 degrees CA BTDC) of peak cylinder pressure, rate of heat release, combustion efficiency, and NOx and CO2 emissions decreased, while smoke number and UHC and CO emissions increased at all test conditions. On the other hand, The advanced injection timing (25 degrees CA BTDC), smoke number, and UHC and CO emissions diminished and peak cylinder pressure, rate of heat release, combustion efficiency, and NOx and CO2 emissions increased at all test conditions. In terms of BSFC, BSEC, and BTE, retarded and advanced injection timings gave negative results in all fuel blends compared to original injection timing.
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    Effect of Injection Pressure on the Combustion, Performance, and Emission Characteristics of a Diesel Engine Fueled with Methanol-blended Diesel Fuel
    (AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2009) SAYIN, CENK; Canakci, Mustafa; Sayin, Cenk; Ozsezen, Ahmet Necati; Turkcan, Ali
    In this study, the effect of injection pressure on the engine performance, exhaust emissions and combustion characteristics of a single cylinder, four stroke, direct injection, naturally aspirated diesel engine has been experimentally investigated when using methanol-blended diesel fuel from 0 to 15% with an increment of 5%. The engine has original injection pressure of 200 bar. The tests were conducted at three different injection pressures (180, 200, and 220 bar) with decreasing or increasing washer number. All tests were conducted at four different loads (5, 10, 15, and 20 N m) for constant engine speed of 2200 rpm. The experimental test results proved that brake thermal efficiency, heat release rate, peak cylinder pressure, smoke number, carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbon emissions reduced as brake-specific fuel consumption, brake specific energy consumption, combustion efficiency, and nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide emissions increased with increasing amount of methanol in the fuel blend. When comparing the results to the original injection pressure, at the decreased injection pressure (180 bar), peak cylinder pressure, rate of heat release, combustion efficiency, and nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide emissions decreased, whereas smoke number, unburned hydrocarbon, and carbon monoxide emissions increased at all test conditions. On the other hand, with the increased injection pressure (220 bar), smoke number, unburned hydrocarbon, and carbon monoxide emissions diminished, and peak cylinder pressure, heat release rate, combustion efficiency, and nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide emissions boosted at all test conditions. With respect to brake-specific fuel consumption, brake-specific energy consumption, and brake thermal efficiency, changing injection pressure gave negative results in the all fuel blends compared to the original injection pressure.
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    Effects of biodiesel from used frying palm oil on the performance, injection, and combustion characteristics of an indirect injection diesel engine
    (AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2008) SAYIN, CENK; Ozsezen, Ahmet Necati; Canakci, Mustafa; Sayin, Cenk
    In this study, biodiesel from used frying palm oil and its blends with diesel fuel were used in a four-cylinder, naturally aspirated indirect injection (IDI) diesel engine. Using petroleum-based diesel fuel (PBDF), biodiesel, and its blends, the engine performance, injection, and combustion characteristics were investigated over a range of engine speeds at full load. When the test engine was fueled with biodiesel and its blends, the brake specific fuel consumption increased slightly relative to PBDF due to its fuel properties and combustion characteristics. Biodiesel and its blends also showed a slight drop in the engine power with increased peak cylinder pressure and reduced ignition delay when compared to PBDF. In the all test conditions, the premixed combustion phase and the start of injection timing of biodiesel and its blends took place earlier than with PBDF.
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    Effect of injection timing on the exhaust emissions of a diesel engine using diesel-methanol blends
    (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2009) SAYIN, CENK; Sayin, Cenk; Ilhan, Murat; Canakci, Mustafa; Gumus, Metin
    Environmental concerns and limited resource of petroleum fuels have caused interests in the development of alternative fuels for internal combustion (IC) engines. For diesel engines, alcohols are receiving increasing attention because they are oxygenated and renewable fuels. Therefore, in this study, the effect of injection timing on the exhaust emissions of a single cylinder, naturally aspirated, four-stroke, direct injection diesel engine has been experimentally investigated by using methanol-blended diesel fuel from 0% to 15% with an increment of 5%. The tests were conducted for three different injection timings (15 degrees, 20 degrees and 25 degrees CA BTDC) at four different engine loads (5 Nm, 10 Nm, 15 Nm, 20 Nm) at 2200 rpm. The experimental test results showed that Bsfc, NOx and CO2 emissions increased as BTE, smoke opacity, CO and UHC emissions decreased with increasing amount of methanol in the fuel mixture. When compared the results to those of original injection timing, NOx and CO2 emissions decreased, smoke opacity, UHC and CO emissions increased for the retarded injection timing (15 CA BTDC). On the other hand, with the advanced injection timing (25 degrees CA BTDC), decreasing smoke opacity, UHC and CO emissions diminished, and NOx and CO2 emissions boosted at all test conditions. In terms of Bsfc and BTE, retarded and advanced injection timings gave negative results for all fuel blends in all engine loads. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Energy and exergy analyses of a gasoline engine
    (WILEY, 2007) SAYIN, CENK; Sayin, C.; Hosoz, M.; Canakci, M.; Kilicaslan, I.
    This study presents comparative energy and exergy analyses of a four-cylinder, four-stroke spark-ignition engine using gasoline fuels of three different research octane numbers (RONs), namely 91, 93 and 95.3. Each fuel test was performed by varying the engine speed between 1200 and 2400 rpm while keeping the engine torque at 20 and 40 Nm. Then, using the steady-state data along with energy and exergy rate balance equations, various performance parameters of the engine were evaluated for each fuel case. It was found that the gasoline of 91-RON, the design octane rating of the test engine, yielded better energetic and exergetic performance, while the exergetic performance parameters were slightly lower than the corresponding energetic ones. Furthermore, this study revealed that the combustion was the most important contributor to the system inefficiency, and almost all performance parameters increased with increasing engine speed. Copyright (c) 2006 John Wiley & Sons. Ltd.
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    Effects of biodiesel from used frying palm oil on the exhaust emissions of an indirect injection (IDI) diesel engine
    (AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2008) SAYIN, CENK; Ozsezen, Ahmet Necati; Canakci, Mustafa; Sayin, Cenk
    In our previous paper, the influences of biodiesel and its blends on the performance, combustion, and injection characteristics of an indirect injection (IDI) diesel engine have been discussed. The results have indicated that, when the test engine was fueled with biodiesel and its blends, the maximum brake torque, brake thermal efficiency, and brake power dropped, while the brake-specific fuel consumption increased compared to the petroleum-based diesel fuel (PBDF). The main differences in the combustion and injection characteristics of biodiesel and its blends are earlier premixed combustion, shorter ignition delay, higher cylinder gas pressure, and earlier start of injection in terms of the PBDF. This paper discusses the exhaust emission results obtained in the same study. The emission results showed that carbon monoxide (CO), unburned hydrocarbon (HC) emissions, and smoke opacity decreased with the increase of biodiesel percentage in the fuel blend for all engine speeds under the full-load condition. However, NOx and CO2 emissions showed different behaviors in terms of the engine speed.
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    Performance and exhaust emissions of a gasoline engine using artificial neural network
    (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2007) SAYIN, CENK; Sayin, Cenk; Ertunc, H. Metin; Hosoz, Murat; Kilicaslan, Ibrahim; Canakci, Mustafa
    This study deals with artificial neural network (ANN) modelling of a gasoline engine to predict the brake specific fuel consumption,. brake thermal efficiency, exhaust gas temperature and exhaust emissions of the engine. To acquire data for training and testing the proposed ANN, a four-cylinder, four-stroke test engine was fuelled with gasoline having various octane numbers (91, 93, 95 and 95.3), and operated at different engine speeds and torques. Using some of the experimental data for training, an ANN model based on standard back-propagation algorithm for the engine was developed. Then, the performance of the ANN predictions were measured by comparing the predictions with the experimental results which were not used in the training process. It was observed that the ANN model can predict the engine performance, exhaust emissions and exhaust gas temperature quite well with correlation coefficients in the range of 0.983-0.996, mean relative errors in the range of 1.41-6.66% and very low root mean square errors. This study shows that, as an alternative to classical modelling techniques, the ANN approach can be used to accurately predict the performance and emissions of internal combustion engines. (C) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Influence of injection timing on the exhaust emissions of a dual-fuel CI engine
    (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2008) SAYIN, CENK; Sayin, Cenk; Uslu, Kadir; Canakci, Mustafa
    Environmental concerns and limited amount of petroleum fuels have caused interests in the development of alternative fuels for internal combustion (IC) engines. As an alternative, biodegradable, and renewable fuel, ethanol is receiving increasing attention. Therefore, in this study, influence of injection timing on the exhaust emission of a single cylinder, four stroke, direct injection, naturally aspirated diesel engine has been experimentally investigated using ethanol blended diesel fuel from 0% to 15% with an increment of 5%. The engine has an original injection timing 27 degrees CA BTDC. The tests were performed at five different injection timings (21 degrees, 24 degrees, 27 degrees, 30 degrees, and 33 degrees CA BTDC) by changing the thickness of advance shim. The experimental test results showed that NOx and CO2 emissions increased as CO and HC emissions decreased with increasing amount of ethanol in the fuel mixture. When compared to the results of original injection timing, at the retarded injection timings (21 degrees and 24 degrees CA BTDC), NOx and CO2 emissions increased, and unburned HC and CO emissions decreased for all test conditions. On the other hand, with the advanced injection timings (30 degrees and 33 degrees CA BTDC), HC and CO emissions diminished, and NOx and CO2 emissions boosted for all test conditions. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    NUMERICAL EVALUATION BY MODELS OF LOAD AND SPARK TIMING EFFECTS ON THE IN-CYLINDER HEAT TRANSFER OF A SI ENGINE
    (TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, 2009) SAYIN, CENK; Sanli, A.; Sayin, C.; Gumus, M.; Kilicaslan, I.; Canakci, M.
    The aim of this study is to examine numerically the effects of spark timing and load parameters on the in-cylinder heat transfer of a SI engine by using experimental engine test data. For the investigation, a four-stroke, air-cooled, single-cylinder SI engine was tested at different spark timings and loads at a single engine speed of 2000 rpm. Woschni, Hohenberg, and Han models were employed to estimate the in-cylinder heat transfer coefficient in the case of different test conditions because of being favorable models on the SI engine operations. The evaluations show that the in-cylinder heat transfer characteristics of the air-cooled SI engine strongly depend on the load while they slightly depend on the spark timing.