Overview
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The transportation sector is in urgent need of alternative fuels due to the peak-oil scenario and the growing global demand for transport, and the accompanying increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Biofuels are being pursued as a replacement for diesel in the transportation sector to facilitate global warming mitigation, to reduce exhaust emissions and also for energy security reasons. It has been well documented that the use of biofuels in compression ignition (CI) engines, as a replacement to diesel fuel, results in a significant reduction in particulate mass emissions. The reasons for the reduction in particle mass emissions are still unknown.
Hypothesis/Aims
This project will aim at analysing the morphology and structure of nanoparticles formed in CI engines for different biofuels (ethanol, biodiesel, FT, etc.) and different technologies of biofuel introduction (fumigation v.s. blending) in order to understand the mechanisms that lead to the reduction in particle mass emissions. This knowledge will be crucially important for the development of new fuels and engine technologies that would lead to environmentally more sustainable fuels.
Approaches
This project will be realised through the Biofuels Engine Research Facility which is the best equipped engine research laboratory in Australia and is part of QUT.
- Study level
- Honours
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
- Please contact the supervisor.
Professor Zoran Ristovski
