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Natural Gas Engines

For Transportation and Power Generation

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Editors:
  1. Kalyan Kumar Srinivasan

    1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

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  2. Avinash Kumar Agarwal

    1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

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  3. Sundar Rajan Krishnan

    1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

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  4. Vincenzo Mulone

    1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

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  • Discusses high-efficiency technologies for future transportation and power generation applications
  • Presents advanced low temperature combustion technologies
  • Describes novel experimental and high-fidelity multidimensional modeling techniques

Part of the book series: Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (ENENSU)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction to Advanced Combustion Technologies: The Role of Natural Gas in Future Transportation and Power Generation Systems

    • Kalyan Kumar Srinivasan, Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Sundar Rajan Krishnan, Vincenzo Mulone
    Pages 1-6

  3. Low-Temperature Natural Gas Combustion Engines

    • Sotirios Mamalis
    Pages 7-27

  4. The Ultra-Lean Partially Stratified Charge Approach to Reducing Emissions in Natural Gas Spark-Ignited Engines

    • L. Bartolucci, E. C. Chan, S. Cordiner, R. L. Evans, V. Mulone
    Pages 29-63

  5. Simulation and Modeling of Direct Gas Injection through Poppet-type Outwardly-opening Injectors in Internal Combustion Engines

    • Abhishek Y. Deshmukh, Mathis Bode, Tobias Falkenstein, Maziar Khosravi, David van Bebber, Michael Klaas et al.
    Pages 65-115

  6. Prospects and Challenges for Deploying Direct Injection Technology for Compressed Natural Gas Engines

    • Rajesh Kumar Prasad, Tanmay Kar, Avinash Kumar Agarwal
    Pages 117-141

  7. Effects of EGR on Engines Fueled with Natural Gas and Natural Gas/Hydrogen Blends

    • Luigi De Simio, Michele Gambino, Sabato Iannaccone
    Pages 143-168

  8. Natural Gas Combustion in Marine Engines: An Operational, Environmental, and Economic Assessment

    • Roussos G. Papagiannakis, Theodoros C. Zannis, Efthimios G. Pariotis, John S. Katsanis
    Pages 169-213

  9. Advanced Combustion in Natural Gas-Fueled Engines

    • Ulugbek Azimov, Nobuyuki Kawahara, Kazuya Tsuboi, Eiji Tomita
    Pages 215-250

  10. Advances of the Natural Gas/Diesel RCCI Concept Application for Light-Duty Engines: Comprehensive Analysis of the Influence of the Design and Calibration Parameters on Performance and Emissions

    • Giacomo Belgiorno, Gabriele Di Blasio, Carlo Beatrice
    Pages 251-266

  11. Design and Calibration Strategies for Improving HCCI Combustion in Dual-Fuel Diesel–Methane Engines

    • A. P. Carlucci, A. Ficarella, D. Laforgia, L. Strafella
    Pages 267-296

  12. Dual Fuel (Natural Gas Diesel) for Light-Duty Industrial Engines: A Numerical and Experimental Investigation

    • Enrico Mattarelli, Carlo Alberto Rinaldini, Tommaso Savioli
    Pages 297-328

  13. Cyclic Combustion Variations in Diesel–Natural Gas Dual Fuel Engines

    • Kalyan Kumar Srinivasan, Sundar Rajan Krishnan, Prabhat Ranjan Jha, Hamidreza Mahabadipour
    Pages 329-358

  14. Emissions Control Technologies for Natural Gas Engines

    • A. Wahbi, A. Tsolakis, J. Herreros
    Pages 359-379

  15. A Review of Residential-Scale Natural Gas-Powered Micro-Combined Heat and Power Engine Systems

    • Gokul Vishwanathan, Julian Sculley, David Tew, Ji-Cheng Zhao
    Pages 381-419
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About this book

This book covers the various advanced reciprocating combustion engine technologies that utilize natural gas and alternative fuels for transportation and power generation applications. It is divided into three major sections consisting of both fundamental and applied technologies to identify (but not limited to) clean, high-efficiency opportunities with natural gas fueling that have been developed through experimental protocols, numerical and high-performance computational simulations, and zero-dimensional, multizone combustion simulations. Particular emphasis is placed on statutes to monitor fine particulate emissions from tailpipe of engines operating on natural gas and alternative fuels.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

    Kalyan Kumar Srinivasan, Sundar Rajan Krishnan

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

    Avinash Kumar Agarwal

  • Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

    Vincenzo Mulone

About the editors

Kalyan Kumar Srinivasan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Alabama, USA. He completed his MS and PhD from the University of Alabama in 2002 and 2006, respectively. His interests include Research and development of novel low temperature combustion concepts to minimize pollution formation and increase thermal efficiency of internal combustion engines for transportation, development of Laser-based diagnostics to measure temperature and species in open flames and internal combustion engines, investigation of energy destruction in combustion and thermodynamic processes  and combined first and second law analyses to design/analyze bottoming. He has authored 1 book chapter, 20 conference papers and more than 35 journal articles.

Avinash K Agarwal is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His areas of interest are IC engines, combustion, alternative fuels, conventional fuels, optical diagnostics, laser ignition, HCCI, emission and particulate control, and large bore engines. He has published 24 books and 230+ international journal and conference papers. Prof. Agarwal is a Fellow of SAE (2012), ASME (2013), ISEES (2015) and INAE (2015). He received several awards such as Prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award-2016 in Engineering Sciences, Rajib Goyal prize-2015, NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award-2012; INAE Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award-2012; SAE International’s Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award-2008; INSA Young Scientist Award-2007; UICT Young Scientist Award-2007; INAE Young Engineer Award-2005.

Sundar Rajan Krishnan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the University of Alabama, USA. He received his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama in 2001 and 2005 respectively, and has subsequently worked in Argonne National Laboratory (USA), Mississippi State University (USA) and University of Rome (Italy). His research interests include performance and emission analysis of internal combustion engines, advanced combustion strategies and developing alternative fuels and waste energy recovery. He has authored 7 technical reports, 20 conference papers and 35 journal articles.

Vincenzo Mulone is an Associate Professor in the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", from where he has also done his PhD. His research activities are mainly concerned with the fluid dynamics of energy conversion processes and their impact on environment, especially focusing on the analysis of internal combustion engines, aftertreatment components and systems, fuel cells and renewables. He has authored more than 100 publications.



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