ANALYSIS FOR PREDICTING SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND COMBUSTION OF HEAVY-DUTY, PRE-CHAMBER-ENABLED, HYDROGEN ENGINES
Tony Spezia
Hydrogen as an alternative fuel shows great promise to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from heavy duty engines. However, the challenge for hydrogen engines is that hydrogen has very different combustion properties compared to conventional hydrocarbon fuels. Hydrogen has very high flame speeds, very low ignition energy, and very wide flammability limit. These properties result in hydrogen engines being prone to abnormal combustion. Abnormal combustion makes hydrogen engines difficult to cont