Conceptual study of an advanced ethanol-fueled engine

• Grant number: 13/50238-3
• Support Opportunities: Program for Research on Bioenergy (BIOEN) - Research Centers in Engineering Program
• Start date: November 01, 2014
• End date: October 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
• Agreement: Peugeot Citroën
• Principal Investigator: Francisco Emílio Baccaro Nigro
• Grantee: Francisco Emílio Baccaro Nigro
• Host Institution: Escola de Engenharia Mauá (EEM). Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia. São Caetano do Sul , SP, Brazil
• Company: Peugeot Citroën do Brasil Automóveis Ltda
• Pesquisadores principais:( Últimos ): Guenther Carlos Krieger Filho ; Janito Vaqueiro Ferreira ; Marco Lucio Bittencourt ; Pedro Teixeira Lacava
• Pesquisadores principais:( Antigos ): Celso Argachoy ; Francisco Emílio Baccaro Nigro
• Associated research grant(s): 21/03683-8 - Multi-user equipment approved in grant 2013/50238-3: High Speed Camera, AP.EMU; 21/00758-7 - Multi-user equipment approved in grant 2013/50238-3: Fuel Consumption Measurement and Conditioning System, AP.EMU; 21/00759-3 - Multi-user Equipment approved in grant 2013/50238-3: Gaseous Emissions Bench, AP.EMU
• Associated scholarship(s): 21/01746-2 - Experimental analysis and measurement of turbulent interactions in ethanol spray, BP.MS; 16/14073-8 - Development of a spark-ignition engine prototype with variable compression ratio and displacement, BP.IC; 16/06043-1 - Conceptual study of an internal combustion engine with adjustable cubic capacity and compression ratio, BP.DD; + associated scholarships 15/24187-8 - Study of computer model to predict the knock occurence on an advanced ethanol engine, BP.MS; 15/20801-3 - Study of the operation of the internal combustion engine fueled by ethanol with addition of water to the combustion chamber, BP.DR; 15/16470-1 - Virtual texturing of lightweight crankshafts bearings, BP.MS; 15/17041-7 - Pollutants formation simulation models (CO, NOx and HC) in ethanol engines, BP.MS; 15/10310-2 - Numerical and experimental fatigue simulation of lightweight cranckshafts, BP.MS; 15/03170-0 - Performance evaluation of an ethanol-fueled engine with EGR to reduce NOx emissions and to control knock, BP.DR - associated scholarships
• FAPESP publication: https://media.fapesp.br/bv/uploads/pdfs/FAPESP_Engineering_4wOIBoE_9_10.pdf

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RUFINO, CAIO HENRIQUE; TRUTA BESERRA DE LIMA, ALESSANDRO JOSE; MIN ALLAH, FAZAL UM; FERREIRA, JANITO VAQUEIRO; RIBEIRO GALLO, WALDYR LUIZ. Study on combustion irreversibility in turbocharged spark-ignition engines. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXERGY, v. 35, n. 1, SI, p. 19-34, 2021. (18/20394-7, 13/50238-3, 18/18859-1)

DUARTE, C. A. R.; LACAVA, P. T.. Combustion characterization of commercial ethanol fuels in an optical research SI ignition engine for different injection strategies. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, v. 44, n. 6, p. 13-pg., 2022-06-01. (13/50238-3)

CUNHA GALEAZZO, FLAVIO CESAR; FUKUMASU, NEWTON KIYOSHI; DENEV, JORDAN ASENOV; WEIS, CHRISTOF; HABISREUTHER, PETER; KRIEGER FILHO, GUENTHER CARLOS. Change in Flame Geometry of an Ethanol Spray Flame by Varying the Spray Characteristics. COMBUSTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, v. 191, n. 9, JULY 2019. (13/50238-3, 13/02940-0)

HAVEROTH, G. A.; VALE, M. G.; BITTENCOURT, M. L.; BOLDRINI, J. L.. A non-isothermal thermodynamically consistent phase field model for damage, fracture and fatigue evolutions in elasto-plastic materials. COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING, v. 364, JUN 1 2020. (13/50238-3, 15/20188-0)

CHIARELLI, L. R.; FUMES, F. G.; BARROS DE MORAES, E. A.; HAVEROTH, G. A.; BOLDRINI, J. L.; BITTENCOURT, M. L.. Comparison of high order finite element and discontinuous Galerkin methods for phase field equations: Application to structural damage. COMPUTERS & MATHEMATICS WITH APPLICATIONS, v. 74, n. 7, p. 1542-1564, OCT 1 2017. (15/20188-0, 15/10310-2, 13/50238-3)

CUNHA GALEAZZO, FLAVIO CESAR; SAVARD, BRUNO; WANG, HAIOU; HAWKES, EVATT R.; CHEN, JACQUELINE H.; KRIEGER FILHO, GUENTHER CARLOS. Performance assessment of flamelet models in flame-resolved LES of a high Karlovitz methane/air stratified premixed jet flame. PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE, v. 37, n. 2, p. 2545-2553, 2019. (14/50279-4, 13/50238-3)

OLIVEIRA, GUTHMAN PALANDI; SBAMPATO, MARIA ESTHER; MARTINS, CRISTIANE APARECIDA; SANTOS, LEILA RIBEIRO; BARRETA, LUIZ GILBERTO; BOSCHI GONCALVES, RENE FRANCISCO. Experimental laminar burning velocity of syngas from fixed-bed downdraft biomass gasifiers. RENEWABLE ENERGY, v. 153, p. 1251-1260, JUN 2020. (13/50238-3)

DE OLIVEIRA, ENRICO R. MALHEIRO; RUFINO, CAIO HENRIQUE; LACAVA, PEDRO TEIXEIRA. Effects of direct injection and mixture enleament on the combustion of hydrous ethanol and an ethanol-gasoline blend in an optical engine. FUEL, v. 327, p. 16-pg., 2022-07-09. (13/50238-3)

RUFINO, CAIO HENRIQUE; CORACA, EDUARDO MORAES; LACAVA, PEDRO TEIXEIRA; FERREIRA, JANITO VAQUEIRO. Deep learning based techniques for flame identification in optical engines. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINE RESEARCH, v. N/A, p. 15-pg., 2022-07-01. (13/50238-3)

RUFINO, CAIO H.; DE LIMA, ALESSANDRO J. T. B.; MATTOS, ANA P.; ALLAH, FAZAL U. M.; FERREIR, JANITO V.; GALLO, WALDYR L. R.. Effects of combustion products composition models on the exergetic analysis of spark-ignition engine fuelled with ethanol. ARCHIVES OF THERMODYNAMICS, v. 40, n. 3, p. 27-42, 2019. (13/50238-3, 15/20801-3, 16/06043-1)

FILHO, GUENTHER C. KRIEGER; SILVA, FILIPI M. FERNANDES; PACIFICO, ANTONIO L.; FILHO, FERNANDO L. SACOMANO; ZABEU, CLAYTON B.; NIGRO, FRANCISCO B.; JR., OSWALDO M. FRANCA; PENARANDA, ALEXANDER; LACAVA, PEDRO T.. Extended Coherent Flame Model applied to an optical single-cylinder engine fueled with ethanol. APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING, v. 236, p. 15-pg., 2024-01-05. (13/50238-3)

BOLDRINI, J. L.; BARROS DE MORAES, E. A.; CHIARELLI, L. R.; FUMES, F. G.; BITTENCOURT, M. L.. A non-isothermal thermodynamically consistent phase field framework for structural damage and fatigue. COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING, v. 312, p. 33-pg., 2016-12-01. (13/50238-3, 15/10310-2)

BOLDRINI, J. L.; BARROS DE MORAES, E. A.; CHIARELLI, L. R.; FUMES, F. G.; BITTENCOURT, M. L.. A non-isothermal thermodynamically consistent phase field framework for structural damage and fatigue. COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING, v. 312, n. SI, p. 395-427, DEC 1 2016. (15/10310-2, 13/50238-3)

RUFINO, CAIO H.; DE LIMA, ALESSANDRO J. T. B.; MATTOS, ANA P.; ALLAH, FAZAL U. M.; BERNAL, JAIR L. L.; FERREIRA, JANITO V.; GALLO, WALDYR L. R.. Exergetic analysis of a spark ignition engine fuelled with ethanol. ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT, v. 192, p. 20-29, JUL 15 2019. (16/06043-1, 15/20801-3, 13/50238-3)

RUFINO, CAIO H.; FERREIRA, JANITO V.. Kinematics of a variable stroke and compression ratio mechanism of an internal combustion engine. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, v. 40, n. 9, SEP 2018. (16/06043-1, 13/50238-3)

DE LIMA, A. J. T. B.; RUFINO, C. H.; FERREIRA, V, J.; GALLO, W. L. R.. Study on Exergy Recovery in Hybrid Vehicles via Wastegate Losses. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMODYNAMICS, v. 23, n. 1, p. 43-51, 2020. (13/50238-3, 18/18859-1)

GEOVANE A. HAVEROTH; EDUARDO A. BARROS DE MORAES; JOSÉ L. BOLDRINI; MARCO L. BITTENCOURT. Comparison of semi and fully-implicit time integration schemes applied to a damage and fatigue phase field model. LATIN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES, v. 15, n. 5, 2018-06-14. (13/50238-3, 15/20188-0, 15/10310-2)

RUFINO, CAIO HENRIQUE; TRUTA BESERRA DE LIMA, ALESSANDRO JOSE; MIN ALLAH, FAZAL UM; FERREIRA, JANITO VAQUEIRO; RIBEIRO GALLO, WALDYR LUIZ. Study on combustion irreversibility in turbocharged spark-ignition engines. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXERGY, v. 35, n. 1, p. 16-pg., 2021-01-01. (18/18859-1, 13/50238-3, 18/20394-7)