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Performance Optimization of 2 Cylinder Flex Fuel Engine for Small Commercial Vehicle A STEP TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY Tata Motors, Limited
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Kulkarni, Deepak, author.
- Conference Name:
- Symposium on International Automotive Technology (2026) (2026-01-28 : Pune, India)
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource cm
- Place of Publication:
- Warrendale, PA SAE International 2026
- Summary:
- Increasing ethanol blending in gasoline is significant from both financial (reducing dependency on crude oil) and sustainability (overall CO2 reduction) points of view. Flex Fuel is an ethanol-gasoline blend containing ethanol ranging from 20% to 85%. Flex Fuel emerges as an exceptionally advantageous solution, adeptly addressing the shortcomings associated with both gasoline and ethanol. Performance optimization of Flex Fuel is a major challenge as fuel properties like knocking tendency, calorific value, vapour pressure, latent heat, and stoichiometric air-fuel ratio change with varying ethanol content. This paper elaborates on the experimental results of trials conducted for optimizing engine performance with Flex Fuel for a 2-cylinder engine used in a small commercial vehicle. To derive maximum benefit from the higher octane rating of E85, the compression ratio is increased, while ignition timing is optimized to avoid knocking with E20 fuel. For intermediate blends, ignition timing is suitably interpolated. Fuel injection pressure is increased to address the higher fuel flow requirement, and a fuel heater is added to address cold starts with E85 fuel. Ethanol content detection is done through software, and by suitable interpolation, fuelling and ignition timing are optimized for the entire range of Flex Fuel in a single calibration file. Engine performance with E20 and E93 fuel is optimized considering all mechanical and thermal limits of the engine through various iterations. The experimental results are analysed using the first principle method
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Publisher Number:
- 2026-26-0119
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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