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Effects of air intake temperature on the fuel consumption and exhaust emissions of natural aspirated gasoline engine
Nik Rosli Abdullah1, Hazim Sharudin2, Hazimi Ismail3, Zeno Michael4, Asiah Ab Rahim5.
Improving fuel consumption with lower exhaust emissions give more focused to all car
manufactures. A higher engine performance with lower exhaust emissions requires a
complete mixing process resulted in ultra-lean high combustion efficiency. Air intake
temperature is one of the alternative strategies to improve fuel consumption and reduced
exhaust emissions. This is due to the cold air is denser and contain higher oxygen
availability. Air intake temperature will affect to the oxygen concentration in the charged
air that influence the combustion process through ignition delay and fuel burning rate.
The objective of this experiment is to investigate the effects of air intake temperature to
the fuel consumption and exhaust emission at variation of engine speeds and constant
load by using 1.6L gasoline engine. Air intake temperature was changed from 20 °C to 30
°C. The DaTAQ Pro V2 software was used to measure the engine fuel consumption while
gas analyzer (MRU Gas Analyzer) was used to measure the exhaust emission such as
Unburned hydrocarbons (UHCs) and carbon monoxide (CO). The results showed that fuel
consumption, UHCs and CO emissions increased with the increase of air intake
temperature. The increase of air intake temperature resulted in advanced and shorter
combustion duration. Higher oxygen concentration at lower air intake temperature leads
to the complete mixing process and complete combustion. Therefore, the experimental
results can be concluded that the lower air intake temperature resulted in improved fuel
consumption and reduced UHCs and CO emissions.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
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