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    Dual fuel engines can operate on both liquid and gaseous fuels. They work on the diesel cycle, using a liquid pilot fuel for ignition of a compressed air-gas mixture. This allows the engines to take advantage of cheaper gaseous fuels while maintaining the ability to switch to liquid fuel if needed. Dual fuel engines are slightly more efficient than conventional diesel engines at full load and can help utilize waste gases as fuels.

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    Dual fuel engines can operate on both liquid and gaseous fuels. They work on the diesel cycle, using a liquid pilot fuel for ignition of a compressed air-gas mixture. This allows the engines to take advantage of cheaper gaseous fuels while maintaining the ability to switch to liquid fuel if needed. Dual fuel engines are slightly more efficient than conventional diesel engines at full load and can help utilize waste gases as fuels.

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    Dual fuel engines can operate on both liquid and gaseous fuels. They work on the diesel cycle, using a liquid pilot fuel for ignition of a compressed air-gas mixture. This allows the engines to take advantage of cheaper gaseous fuels while maintaining the ability to switch to liquid fuel if needed. Dual fuel engines are slightly more efficient than conventional diesel engines at full load and can help utilize waste gases as fuels.

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    Internal Combustion Engines

    Introduction

     Shortage of liquid fuel and gaseous fuels being cheaper then liquid fuels gave birth to
    duel fuel engines.
     From recent air and water pollution concern it became necessary to utilize sewage gas.
     Gaseous fuels have high self-ignition temperature and burn efficiently.
     Dual-fuel operation combines the possibility of operation a diesel engine on liquid fuels
    such as diesel oil or gas oil and on gaseous fuel such as natural gas, sewage gas and cook
    oven gas.

    Working Principle
     Works diesel cycle.
     Gaseous fuel (primary fuel) is added to air inducted into the engine or supplied by
    supercharger.
     The mixture of air and gaseous fuel gets compressed in the cylinder.
     Liquid fuel called pilot fuel injected near the TDC acts as a source of ignition.
     Gas-air mixture ignites establishing a number of flame-fronts.
     In a dual-fuel engine combustion starts similar to CI engine, but it is propagated by
    flame-fronts as in SI engine.

    Gas mode

     High efficiency and low emissions.


     Automatic and instant transfer to diesel operation in alarm situations.
     Transfer to diesel operation at any load.

    Diesel mode

     As an ordinary diesel engine.


     Transfer to gas operation preferably at part load.
     Pilot fuel injection in operation.

    Performance of Dual-Fuel engine

     Produce equal power when operating on liquid fuels as with gaseous fuel.
     Duel fuel engines are slightly more efficient to conventional diesel at full load.
     However, the maximum output is about the same.
     Efficiency of duel in part load is slightly poor.
     Typical diesel efficiency is 41%, and duel efficiency is 38.5.

    Advantages of Dual Fuel Engines

     Increased utility of the power plant as the versatility of change-over from gas to diesel
    and vice-versa.
     Only a small amount of liquid full needed to run engine.
     Suitable for total energy installation (sewage gas).
     Can be used to produce synthetic gas, which is a mixture of CO and H

     Ideal for LPG tankers as they can utilize the gas which evaporates.

    Factors affecting combustion in a duel fuel engine

     Pilot fuel quantity.


     Injection timing.
     Effect of cetane number.
     Effect of inlet temperature.
     Effect of type of gaseous fuels.
     Effect of throttling.
     Effect of mixture strength.

    Main type gaseous fuel & their requirement

     Natural gas.
     Sewage gas.
     LPG.
     Town gas.
     Hydrogen gas.

    Clean
    Dry
    Minimum calorific value
    Gas-4500kcl/cm
    light fuel oil-10,200 kcl/kg

    Knock control in duel engine


     Excess supply of air
     Use of cold combustion air
     Increased cooling of piston
     Use of additives
     Reducing the pressure of the gaseous fuel

    Multi-fuel Engines

     A multi-fuel engine is one which would operate satisfactorily with substantially


    unchanged performance and efficiency, on a wide verity of fuels ranging from
    diesel oil, crude oil to lighter fuels like gasoline and even normal lubrication oil.
     Mainly developed for military requirements.
     Has good idling and part load efficiency and low exhaust smoke.
     Should have high compression ratios as gasoline have low cetane number.
     Must be capable of starting at subzero temperatures.
     Large stroke/before ratio gives a compact combustions chamber so that it remains
    hot in all conditions of speed.
     An open combustion chamber is suited as in a pre-combustion chamber, additional
    heat losses due to throat occur (e.g., spherical or M-combustion chamber).

    Difficulties

     Tendency of vapour lock while using lighter fuels.


     Tendency of increased wear due to lower lubricate of gasoline.
     Requirements for injecting different volumes of fuel depending on their heating values
    and compressibility.

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