TY - JOUR
T1 - Hydrogen double compression-expansion engine (H2DCEE): A sustainable internal combustion engine with 60%+ brake thermal efficiency potential at 45 bar BMEP
AU - Babayev, Rafig
AU - Im, Hong G.
AU - Andersson, Arne
AU - Johansson, Bengt
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-06-17
Acknowledgements: Babayev R. and Johansson B. would like to thank the Combustion Engine Research Center (CERC) at the Chalmers University of Technology for the financial support. Im H.G. was sponsored by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The computations and data handling were enabled by resources provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at Chalmers Centre for Computational Science and Engineering (C3SE), partially funded by the Swedish Research Council through grant agreement no. 2018-05973. Additionally, Convergent Science provided CONVERGE licenses and technical support for this work.
PY - 2022/5/19
Y1 - 2022/5/19
N2 - Hydrogen (H2) internal combustion engines may represent cost-effective and quick solution to the issue of the road transport decarbonization. A major factor limiting their competitiveness relative to fuel cells (FC) is the lower efficiency. The present work aims to demonstrate the feasibility of a H2 engine with FC-like 60%+ brake thermal efficiency (BTE) levels using a double compression-expansion engine (DCEE) concept combined with a high pressure direct injection (HPDI) nonpremixed H2 combustion. Experimentally validated 3D CFD simulations are combined with 1D GT-Power simulations to make the predictions. Several modifications to the system design and operating conditions are systematically implemented and their effects are investigated. Addition of a catalytic burner in the combustor exhaust, insulation of the expander, dehumidification of the EGR, and removal of the intercooling yielded 1.5, 1.3, 0.8, and 0.5%-point BTE improvements, respectively. Raising the peak pressure to 300 bar via a larger compressor further improved the BTE by 1.8%-points but should be accompanied with a higher injector-cylinder differential pressure. The λ of ∼1.4 gave the optimum tradeoff between the mechanical and combustion efficiencies. A peak BTE of 60.3% is reported with H2DCEE, which is ∼5%-points higher than the best diesel-fueled DCEE alternative.
AB - Hydrogen (H2) internal combustion engines may represent cost-effective and quick solution to the issue of the road transport decarbonization. A major factor limiting their competitiveness relative to fuel cells (FC) is the lower efficiency. The present work aims to demonstrate the feasibility of a H2 engine with FC-like 60%+ brake thermal efficiency (BTE) levels using a double compression-expansion engine (DCEE) concept combined with a high pressure direct injection (HPDI) nonpremixed H2 combustion. Experimentally validated 3D CFD simulations are combined with 1D GT-Power simulations to make the predictions. Several modifications to the system design and operating conditions are systematically implemented and their effects are investigated. Addition of a catalytic burner in the combustor exhaust, insulation of the expander, dehumidification of the EGR, and removal of the intercooling yielded 1.5, 1.3, 0.8, and 0.5%-point BTE improvements, respectively. Raising the peak pressure to 300 bar via a larger compressor further improved the BTE by 1.8%-points but should be accompanied with a higher injector-cylinder differential pressure. The λ of ∼1.4 gave the optimum tradeoff between the mechanical and combustion efficiencies. A peak BTE of 60.3% is reported with H2DCEE, which is ∼5%-points higher than the best diesel-fueled DCEE alternative.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/679078
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0196890422004940
U2 - 10.1016/j.enconman.2022.115698
DO - 10.1016/j.enconman.2022.115698
M3 - Article
SN - 1879-2227
VL - 264
SP - 115698
JO - ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT
JF - ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT
ER -