A 4-stroke spark-ignition engine fuelled with low quality gas
			
	
 
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				Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering at Cracow University of
Technology.
				 
			 
						
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				Engine Portfolio Team
within Technology & Solution, Wärtsila Finland Oy.
				 
			 
						
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				Research and development
department – HORUS Energia Sp. z o. o.,
Sulejówek.
				 
			 
										
				
				
		
		 
			
			
		
		
		
		
		
			
			 
			Publication date: 2017-02-01
			 
		 			
		 
	
							
																								
		
	 
		
 
 
Combustion Engines 2017,168(1), 122-124
		
 
 
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Huge  amount  of  by-products  is  still  considered  as  waste  and  is  simply  disposed,  for  example  by-product  gas  is  usually  flared. Political and social pressure to reduce air pollution and national needs for energy security make these waste fuels interesting for near-future power generation. Unfortunately most of these waste fuels, even when liquefied or gasified, have very low quality and can hardly be used in high-efficiency power systems. Among main challenges are low calorific value and composition fluctuation. Additionally very often there is a high content of sulphur, siloxanes, tars, etc., which have to be removed from the fuel. Modern  4-stroke  gas  engines  designed  for  power  generation  applications  provide  very  high  efficiency,  high  reliability  and availability. Unfortunately,  these gas engines  require high quality  fuel with  stable composition. Horus-Energia  together with Cracow University  of Technology  developed  a  novel  gas  supply  system HE-MUZG  that  can  adapt  to  current  gas  quality  and change  engine settings accordingly.This article will present results from the HE-MUZG system tests on modern 4-stroke spark-ignition gas engine. Tests focus on low quality gas, such as gas with low calorific value, gas with very low methane number and gas with very big variations of calorific value. Test results compared with performance of that engine in the original configuration show huge improvements. Moreover the HE- MUZG system is easy to implement in commercial gensets.
		
	
		
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