The Effects of Advanced Fuels and Additives on Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Combustion and Deposit Formation.

.................................................................................................................................... xxxix CHAPTER 1 PROJECT INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND .......................................................... 1 1.1 Project Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 HCCI Background ........................................................................................................................ 3 1.3 Fuel Chemistry Overview ........................................................................................................... 11 1.4 Combustion Chamber Deposits .................................................................................................. 15 1.4.1 Deposits in Spark-Ignited Engines ...................................................................................... 16 1.4.2 Deposits in HCCI Engines .................................................................................................. 35 1.5 Motivation for the Research ........................................................................................................ 48 1.6 Research Objectives and Projected Contributions ...................................................................... 55 CHAPTER 2 – EXPERIMENTAL SETUP .............................................................................................. 59 2.1 Engine Specifications ................................................................................................................. 59 2.2 Intake Air System ....................................................................................................................... 64 2.3 Exhaust System ......................................................................................................................... 66 2.4 Fuelling Hardware ...................................................................................................................... 67 2.5 Data Acquisition ......................................................................................................................... 71 2.5.1 Crank-Angle Resolved Measurements ................................................................................ 72 2.5.2 Time Resolved Measurements ........................................................................................... 81

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