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Research Article

Investigation of water/steam direct injection on performance and emissions of two-stroke marine diesel engine

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Pages 843-855 | Received 17 Nov 2020, Accepted 30 Dec 2020, Published online: 15 Feb 2021
 

ABSTRACT

Water/steam direct injection is an effective method to lower emissions and improve the power of engines by using waste heat recovery (WHR). The parameters of water injection (WI) and steam injection (SI) were analyzed at compression stroke on the effect of brake power and emissions in marine engines, including injected timing, mass, and temperature. The results demonstrated that NOx emissions were substantially reduced by using WI method. However, brake power was also decreased. The SI method not only decreased NOx emissions but also improved brake power. The NOx emissions were ascended with increasing temperature and delaying injected timing of water. Opposing trends were found for SI method. The injected mass has a large effect on power and emissions compared with the influence of temperature and timing. The NOx emissions can be reduced by 72.8% with 2.08% power loss when the 20 g of water was injected into the cylinder at −50 °CA, 15 bar and 400 K. The NOx emissions can be reduced by 38.9% with 24.7% power improvement when the same mass of superheated steam with 500 K of temperature was injected into the cylinder. It can be obvious that SI method can increase power while reducing fuel consumption and emissions.

Declaration of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Funding

This work was supported by Science and Technology Planning Project of Ningbo under [Grant 2019B10111]; and Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province under [Grant E2020202017].

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