TY - JOUR
T1 - SI Gas Engine
T2 - Evaluation of Engine Performance, Efficiency and Emissions Comparing Producer Gas and Natural Gas
AU - Ulfvik, Jonas
AU - Achilles, Matthias
AU - Tuner, Martin
AU - Johansson, Bengt
AU - Ahrenfeldt, Jesper
AU - Schauer, Franz Xaver
AU - Henriksen, Ulrik
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - The Technical University of Denmark, DTU, has designed, built and tested a gasifier [1, 8] that is fuelled with wood chips and achieves a 93% conversion efficiency from wood to producer gas. By combining the gasifier with an ICE and an electric generator a co-generative system can be realized that produces electricity and heat. The gasifier uses the waste heat from the engine for drying and pyrolysis of the wood chips while the gas produced is used to fuel the engine. To achieve high efficiency in converting biomass to electricity an engine is needed that is adapted to high efficiency operation using the specific producer gas from the DTU gasifier. So far the majority of gas engines have been designed and optimized for operation on natural gas. The presented work uses a modern and highly efficient truck sized natural gas engine to investigate efficiency, emissions and general performance while operating on producer gas compared to natural gas operation.
AB - The Technical University of Denmark, DTU, has designed, built and tested a gasifier [1, 8] that is fuelled with wood chips and achieves a 93% conversion efficiency from wood to producer gas. By combining the gasifier with an ICE and an electric generator a co-generative system can be realized that produces electricity and heat. The gasifier uses the waste heat from the engine for drying and pyrolysis of the wood chips while the gas produced is used to fuel the engine. To achieve high efficiency in converting biomass to electricity an engine is needed that is adapted to high efficiency operation using the specific producer gas from the DTU gasifier. So far the majority of gas engines have been designed and optimized for operation on natural gas. The presented work uses a modern and highly efficient truck sized natural gas engine to investigate efficiency, emissions and general performance while operating on producer gas compared to natural gas operation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79959553912&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4271/2011-01-0916
DO - 10.4271/2011-01-0916
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79959553912
SN - 1946-3936
VL - 4
SP - 1202
EP - 1209
JO - SAE International Journal of Engines
JF - SAE International Journal of Engines
IS - 1
ER -