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DME – A Sustainable Fuel Solution for Clean and Closed CO2-Cycle-Mobility for CI Powertrain

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Reducing emissions and greenhouse gas emissions have become the major challenge for developing sustainable powertrain concepts. In addition to electrification strategies up to full battery electric vehicles, the conventional internal combustion engine can fulfil the CO2 and emission requirements if the fuel of the engine is carefully selected. In the paper, DME (Dimethyl ether) as a promising Diesel fuel replacement will be discussed with regard to mixture preparation, combustion and emission performance and compared against the conventional Diesel baseline. For the comparison, results of detailed simulations and experimental investigations (Spray chamber, single cylinder engine) will be discussed.

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the German ministry for economy and energy (BMWi) for the financial funding of the xME-Diesel project as well as TÜV Rheinland and FVV for their administrative support. Further to that, the authors would like to thank their partners DENSO, IAV and the LVK from TU Munich as well as Oberon Fuels for DME fuel support. Simulations were performed with computing resources granted by RWTH Aachen University under project rwth0158.

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    M. Zubel, T. Ottenwälder & B. Heuser

  2. Ford Research and Innovation Center Aachen, Süsterfeldstr. 200, 52072, Aachen, Germany

    C. Herudek, H. Maas & W. Willems

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Glossary

CN

Cetane number

CPC

Constand pressure chamber

DME

Dimethyl ether

EGR

Exhaust Gas Recirculation

GHG

Green house gas

GPL

Gaseous Penetration Length

LOL

Flame Lift off length

LPL

Liquid Penetration Length

OME

Oxymethylen-ether

TtW

Tank-to Wheel

WtW

Well-to Wheel

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Zubel, M., Ottenwälder, T., Heuser, B., Herudek, C., Maas, H., Willems, W. (2019). DME – A Sustainable Fuel Solution for Clean and Closed CO2-Cycle-Mobility for CI Powertrain. In: Maus, W. (eds) Zukünftige Kraftstoffe. ATZ/MTZ-Fachbuch. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58006-6_30

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