NOx formation inside HCCI engines

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH 21, Science Huβ, http://www.scihub.org/ajsir ISSN: 2153-649X doi:1.5251/ajsir.21.1.2.293.32 NOx formation inside HCCI engines W. A. Abdelghaffar Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria 21544, Egypt ABSTRACT A multizones modeling of the combustion characteristics of the spark assisted homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine is performed. The main aim of this work is to deduce the simulation to reveal the in-cylinder conditions prevailing during the spark assisted HCCI combustion which is difficult to obtain experimentally. Conditions such as in-cylinder burned gas temperature, NOx formation, and mean in-cylinder charge temperature and pressure conditions. The second aim of the present work is the mapping of the influence of NO doping on the incylinder conditions. Recent experimental studies have shown that NO has significant impact on hydrocarbon autoignition and the NO formed inside the burned gas can be used for autoignition control of HCCI engine combustion. The tuning of a zero-dimensional multizones phenomenological model is performed separately using experimental data for SI and HCCI operation keeping the same engine parameters, engine speed and air-fuel ratio to maintain simulation similarity. Variation of the burned gas temperatures inside the individual zones due to recompression effects and the formation of NOx inside these zones in a single engine stroke for different engine speed conditions are investigated. The mean unburned gas temperature and pressure conditions before the start of ignition are obtained for different operating conditions. The effect of NO on in-cylinder conditions is done by doping it in the order of one magnitude up. Keywords: HCCI, NOx, NO, EGR, in-cylinder pressure, in-cylinder temperature. INTRODUCTION Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) is the combustion mode of internal combustion engines utilizing the combination of the conventional spark ignition (SI) and compression ignition (CI) operating modes. In an HCCI engine, the combustion process is due to the autoignition of the homogeneously mixed charge. Ideally, the autoignition process should eliminate the occurrence of either well defined flame front as occurs in SI engine or the diffusion flames that characterize CI combustion. The overall burn rates of HCCI combustion are typically fast, and if correctly phased in the cycle could approximate the ideal Otto cycle (Osborne et al.,23). The combustion processes that characterize the HCCI are found to give significantly low NOx than found in the conventional SI engines and it has better fuel economy. This is due to the formation of the low temperature inside the burned gas region. However, unburned hydrocarbon emissions from HCCI engines are subject of continuous debate. However, there are two critical problems with the HCCI combustion: (i) control of the auto-ignition timing, and (ii) control of the combustion rate. Both of which are significantly depend on the critical incylinder HCCI engine conditions. The interest in the understanding of the in-cylinder engine conditions for HCCI operation is very high, and modeling studies of these engines are highly desirable in parallel with the extensive experimental program to evolve the controlling strategies for combustion phasing and rates for HCCI operation. However, HCCI modeling is relatively new and developing area (Kamninos et al.,23; Wang et al.,26). In the present work, modeling work is carried out using the multizones phenomenological model concepts developed at Oxford Engine Research Group for simulation of engine studies (Ranie et al.,1995) and premixed laminar flames combustion in closed vessel (Saeed and Stone,24). The model is first tuned with the experimental results obtained from the experimental program carried out on the evaluation of HCCI for future gasoline powertrains at University of Brighton (Osborne et al., 23). The model is compared to SI and spark assisted HCCI engine operation in conformity with the experimental program. The model is found to give very good agreement with the experimental P~θ

Am. J. Sci. Ind. Res., 21, 1(2): 293-32 output. The investigations are then carried out to obtain the variations of the burned gas temperatures inside the individual zones due to recompression effects. The formation of NOx inside these zones in a single engine stroke for different engine speed conditions is investigated. The mean unburned gas temperature and pressure conditions before the start of ignition are obtained for different operating conditions. The effects of start of ignition (SOI) varying from 5 BTDC to 25 BTDC and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) varying from to 2% are performed to investigate their influence on the incylinder conditions. The influence of NO is performed by doping the NO in the air-fuel mixture in the order of one magnitude up i.e..1%,.1 % and.1 % by volume. Multizones model: The simulation model used in the present study is a development of the multiple burned gas engine simulation model developed at Oxford Engine Research Group (Raine et al.,1995; Saeed, and Stone, 24). Mathematical equations solved using the model in engine are given in Raine et al. [9] and for constant volume vessel for burning velocity calculations in Saeed and Stone [1]. In the present study, spark assisted HCCI operations are investigated. Therefore, the concepts developed above can be used for modelling. The zerodimensional model use nitric oxides kinetics, friction model, heat transfer correlations, completeness of the combustion and different burn rate models are provided in Raine et al (1995) and Saeed and Stone (24) The different burn rate laws can be used but in the present study the cosine burn rate is found to give good tuning with the experimental data and hence is selected. The nitric oxide generation is investigated through the equilibrium burned gas and kinetic models. A ten-burned gas zones model is selected to model the combustion. The reasons for this selection are discussed in the earlier study by Saeed et al. (26). Ten- zones model is an extension of the two zones model of Ferguson,(1986). A derivation of the two-zone model equations was extended to three zones (unburned plus two burned zones) and then to multiple zones. The equations for the multizones formulation are summarized in Raine et al. (24). The mole fractions in each zone are weighted with the mass fraction burned to calculate the engine fully mixed emissions. In the present model, the unburned gas is assumed homogeneously mixed and the model is independent of spray shape or air motion. The aim is to understand the general tendency of the combustion characteristics under homogeneously charged gas undergoing stable combustion with spark assisted ignition. The model makes use of the assumption that the burned gas is in chemical equilibrium and the burned gas temperature, pressure, heat loss and work per degree of crank angle are calculated using the equation given in Raine et al. (1995) NO formation is calculated in every burned gas zone using the extended Zeldovisch NO mechanism and rate coefficient for NO kinetics provided by Raine et al. (1995) Table 1 shows the rate coefficients used in the present study. Table 1: Rate Coefficients Used, Heywood [13] A Β E/R O 2 + N2 NO + N 1.6E+13 N+ O 2 NO + O 6.4E+9 1 316 N + OH NO + H 4.1E+13 The heat loss to the walls from the burned and unburned gas is modeled using the Hohenberg (1979).and the frictional losses are modeled using the correlations of Chen and Flynn,(1965). (Gordon and B. McBride ) Equilibrium calculations are made using the Gordon and McBride ECP model (Gordon and B. McBride) and the fuel coefficients used for the calculation of the charge properties for the pure and doped charge are presented in Table 2. A method of obtaining these coefficients is described in detail in Saeed (23). Table 2: coefficients used for the calculations of charge properties GASOLINE NO A 4.652 3.2728 B.6977.972 C -1.881E-5-1.8419E-7 D -3588. 9837.7 E 15.45 6.4 294

Am. J. Sci. Ind. Res., 21, 1(2): 293-32 Engine specifications: The engine specifications and the conditions, at which simulation is run, is given in Table 3. The engine parameters used are the same as used by Osborne et al. (23). to keep simulation similarity. The engine is two stroke engine with high degree of commonality with modern four-valve four-stroke gasoline engine. The engine employs four poppet valves, a central spark plug and an in-cylinder fuel injector mounted at the edge of the combustion chamber between the intake valves. Table 3: Engine Specifications, Osborne et al. Osborne, et al. (23). Bore 74. mm Stroke displacement Compression ratio (geometric) Fuel pressure Fuel 75.5 mm.3247 liters 9 1 MPa BP 95 RON ULG RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Tuning of the model: The ten burned gas zones model used in the present study is tuned with the experimental data (Osborne et al., 23). to obtain the model results. The engine speed and overall air/fuel ratio are kept constant at the conditions given by Osborne et al. (23). for the HCCI and SI combustion modes. The data shown in Table 4 shows the conditions given by the experiments (exp) and the parameters used for the tuning process (num) for the HCCI and SI combustion modes. Cosine burn rate law is used in the present study to simulate the rate of heat release, and the engine wall temperature is adjusted to tune the model with the experimental data of Osborne et al. (23). Figs 1a, 1b show the pressure versus crank angle based on the experiments and the ten-zones model for HCCI and SI combustion modes respectively. It can be seen from Fig. 1a that the pressure output from the ten-zones model is in a good agreement with the experimental data through the compression stroke, burn duration and the first part of the power stoke (up to 2 CAD ATDC). After that a small deviation is noticed between the numerical and experimental data. This can be attributed to the heat lost to the cylinder wall. The results in Fig. 1b show a good agreement between the experimental data and the numerical calculations with an error less than 1%. Burned gas temperature and NOx formation Fig. 2 shows the variation in the burned zones temperature of the ULG 95 RON inside the first, fifth and tenth zones of the ten zones model for λ =2. and speeds 18 rpm and 36 rpm. Both of these speeds are an extension of the experimental program operating windows. In the ten-zones model selected in the present study, the expansion of the first zone leads to the compression of the remaining unburned zones, which start burning at higher initial temperature and pressure and therefore jump to higher burned gas temperature than the previously burned zone. The burning of the second and subsequent zones leads to the compression of both the burned and unburned zones. The first zone temperature continues in increasing even after it is completely burned. This establishes a temperature difference between the very first zone burned and the last zone burned. It can be seen from Fig. 2 that the increase in zones temperature due to recompression is found to be maximum in the first zone, where the temperature is found to increase to 2 K due to combustion. Table 4 The experimental parameters used for tuning of the Multizones model. Case HCCI SI Engine speed (rpm) (exp) Overall AFR (exp) Start of ignition (deg) (num) Duration of ignition (deg) (num) 2753 15 18.67 2.82 11 BTDC 5 BTDC 15 3 EGR (num) 3 % % Inlet manifold pressure (exp) 25 mbar 25 mbar 295

Am. J. Sci. Ind. Res., 21, 1(2): 293-32 Pressure (bar) Pressure (bar) 35 3 25 2 15 1 5 3 25 2 15 1 Experimental Data Ten-zones model -9-45 45 9 Crank Angle (deg) Experimental Data Ten- zones model a b Burned temperature (K) 24 23 22 21 2 19 18 3 2 1 18 rpm -2-1 1 2 3 36 rpm Zone 1 Zone 5 Zone 1 Zone 1 Zone 5 Zone 1-3 3 6 9 5-9 -45 45 9 Crank Angle (deg) Fig.1. Variation of in-cylinder pressure rise versus crank angle for experimental data (Osborne et al. Osborne, et al. (23).) with ten-zones model for HCCI (a) and SI (b) combustion modes. 4 3 2 1 18 rpm Zone 1 Zone 5 Zone 1-3 3 6 9 Burned temp erature ( K ) 24 22 2 18 36 rpm Zone 1 Zone 5 Zone 1-2 -1 1 2 3 Fig. 2. Variation of the burned gas temperature and NOx formation inside the individual burned gas zone The combustion of the subsequent zones leads to its recompression and hence increases its temperature further to ~ 228 K, an increase of around 28 K. The expansion of the first zone recompresses the unburned gas and the combustion of the subsequent zones compresses both the burned and unburned gas. Therefore, the burned gas temperature of the 296

Am. J. Sci. Ind. Res., 21, 1(2): 293-32 fifth zone (~ 213 K) ends up higher than that of the first zones (~2 K) but the recompression effect in the fifth zones is lower than that observed in the first zone. As a result, fifth zones maximum burned gas temperature is ~223 K, an increase of ~1 K due to recompression. Tenth zones does not undergo any recompression effect as it is the last zone to be burned, therefore, no further increase in its maximum burned gas temperature is observed. Fig. 2 also shows the variation in the formation of the NOx inside the burned gas region due to crank angle and speed. Since temperature in the burned gas region has a direct influence on the NOx formation, NOx formation inside the ten-zones of the ten zones model is studied and compared with the single zone model. This has also enabled the decoupling of the NOx formation due to the recompression effect. Fig. 2 shows the formation of the NOx inside the tenth, fifth and first zones of the ten-zones model. The recompression effect inside the burned gas region introduces the formation of the NOx due to the dissociation of the equilibrium O, O2, OH, H, H2 and N2, species via the extended Zeldovich mechanism leading to the significant NOx variation inside the inner zones. It can be seen from Fig. 2 that the maximum NOx is formed inside the first zone, which undergoes maximum re-compression effect and hence maximum rise in temperature. Therefore, there is a maximum dissociation of the equilibrium products inside this zone leading to the formation of the NOx. It can be seen that the total NOx (at N=18 rpm & λ = 2; sum of NOx formed in zone1, zone 5, and zone 1) formed due to recompression effect inside the burned gas region is nearly ~45 ppm, which is roughly an order of magnitude lower than that formed under the SI operation. This has established the fact that HCCI operation leads to a significant decrease in NOx formation. The low NOx formation inside the HCCI operation is directly related to the low burned gas temperature formed under HCCI operation. This could also be due to the low compression ratio used in the experimental program and the lean mixture (λ =2.). However, it is found from the experimental programs that under the above conditions HCCI operation frequently misfires. Therefore, as the HCCI operation moves towards decreased λ (up to λ=1), the mean burned gas temperature rise would be higher and faster and hence the NOx formation rate would also be higher. The increase in speed from 18 to 36 rpm is found to lower the burned gas temperature inside the zone 1, zone 5 a zone 1 of the ten-zones model. As a result, the NOx formed at higher speed is slightly lower than that formed at lower speed. Thus, at different engine speeds, the mean burned gas temperature formed under HCCI operation is significantly lower than that formed under the SI operation and consequently, NOx formation is very low. Effects of start of ignition (SOI) HCCI combustion is found to give lower NOx in comparison to that observed in the CI and SI modes. However, the HCCI concept has two biggest hurdles to cross before it can be successfully implemented for commercial applications. The two critical problems with the HCCI combustion are: (i) control of the autoignition timing, and (ii) control of the combustion rate. Both of which are significantly dependent on the critical in-cylinder HCCI engine conditions as autoignition is a kinetics dependent phenomenon. The control on the precise start of autoignition under HCCI operation is investigated using different control strategies (Sjoberg and Dec, 1999; Hardy, and Reitz,26) and one of the strategies involved in the experimental program is trapping of the burned gas so as to use the controlled unburned gas temperature and use of NO inside it (Risberg et al.,26). In the present work, a detailed investigation is carried out to map out the variation, if any, on the NOx formation rates due to the variable start of ignition conditions. The start of ignitions is fixed at different crank angles BTDC for the particular excess air factor and engine speed conditions. This is carried out to establish whether different ignition timing significantly affects the quantity of NOx formation. Fig. 3 shows the variation in the average NOx formed during combustion stroke inside the burned gas regions for different start of ignition (SOI) conditions. The SOI is varied in a step of 5 CAD. The initial conditions are set at 25 CAD BTDC and then SOI is retarded 2, 15, 1 and 5 CAD BTDC. It can be seen from the figure that the SOI significantly affects the NOx concentration inside the burned gas under HCCI operation. With the advance in SOI, the NOx formation is found to increase significantly. At N=18 rpm, λ=2 and 5 CAD BTDC start of ignition, the maximum NOx formed is 25 ppm, which is found to increase to around 3 ppm when the SOI is advanced to 25 CAD BTDC. Every 5 CAD advance in 297

Am. J. Sci. Ind. Res., 21, 1(2): 293-32 SOI leads to around 1% increase in NOx formation. At 1 CAD SOI BTDC, NOx formed is around 5 ppm, which is roughly 1% more than that formed at SOI of 5 CAD BTDC. This shows that early ignition under HCCI operation leads to a greater average burned gas temperature rise and hence more recompression effects inside it. The increased average temperature rise leads to an increased NOx formation due to the dissociation reactions. The effect of engine speed on NOx formations at different SOI is carried out at 18 rpm, 24 rpm, 3 rpm and 36 rpm is illustrated in Fig. 3. It can be seen from these figures that, at a value of high excess air factor, increase in speed leads to the decrease in NOx formation for any fixed SOI. The maximum NOx formed at 25 CAD BTDC SOI is around 3 ppm, which is found to decrease to around 25 ppm for 24 rpm and 22 ppm for 3 rpm. Thus, the increase in speed is found to affect the NOx formation under HCCI operation. These results are in agreement with the results obtained in Saeed et al. (26) 35 3 25 2 15 1 5 35 3 25 2 15 1 5 SOI = 5 BTDC SOI = 1 BTDC SOI = 15 BTDC SOI = 2 BTDC SOI = 25 BTDC 18 rpm 1 2 3 SOI = 5 BTDC SOI = 1 BTDC SOI = 15 BTDC SOI = 2 BTDC SOI = 25 BTDC 24 rpm 1 2 3 35 3 25 2 15 1 5 35 3 25 2 15 1 5 SOI = 5 BTDC SOI = 1 BTDC SOI = 15 BTDC SOI = 2 BTDC SOI = 25 BTDC 3 rpm 1 2 3 SOI = 5 BTDC SOI = 1 BTDC SOI = 15 BTDC SOI = 2 BTDC SOI = 25 BTDC 36 rpm 1 2 3 Fig. 3. Variation of the NOx concentration inside the burned gas region as a fuction of different start of ignitions (SOI) The trends are also found to be same in the current analysis as the increase in speed are found to decrease the NOx concentration. These can be attributed to the variation of the burned gas temperature. At higher engine speed, the average burned gas rise due to recompression effects could be less than that observed at lower speeds. Also, the lowering of the average burned gas temperature at higher speeds could be due to the lesser time available for the recompression effects to take place. Another factor which might be greatly influencing the NOx formation at higher speed is the 298

Am. J. Sci. Ind. Res., 21, 1(2): 293-32 different engine wall heat transfer. This factor needs to be investigated in the future studies. Effects of exhaust gas residuals or recirculation (EGR) Fig. 4 shows the variation of the NOx formations as function of exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). EGR or trapped residuals inside the HCCI engines is currently most widely investigated as the most potential strategies for the autoignition control. EGR is used for controlling both the ignition temperature and maximum temperature rise inside the HCCI operation. Also, recent work by Risberg et al [22] have shown that the NO doping can significantly affects the combustion phasing of the HCCI engines and presents a promising potential for the autoignition control. If both of these strategies are used in combination for the autoignition phasing inside HCCI engines, then the quantity of NOx present inside the burned gas regions and subsequently the influence of exhaust gas recirculation on the NOx formations assumes significance. In the present study, investigations are also carried out to quantify the influence of EGR on the NOx formation. Fig. 4 shows the variation of NOx formation for the variable EGR quantity at 18 rpm, 3 rpm and 36 rpm. It can be seen from the figure that the EGR additions significantly affects the NOx formations. This is due to the reduced burned gas temperature as a result of the dilution of the charge. Fig. 4 shows that at 18 rpm, the maximum NOx formed is 15 ppm when no EGR addition is made. This has reduced to 4 ppm with the increase of EGR addition from % to 2%. This is a very significant decrease in the NOx formation. It could be concluded from the present study that a very high EGR additions leads to a very low formation of NOx. Risberg et al. (26) have found that low temperature heat release is significantly affected by NO. They found that NO addition advances the low temperature heat release up to a concentration of 15 ppm. At higher concentration of NO the low temperature heat release starts to retard. It can be seen from Fig. 4 that the low NOx formation is at higher EGR additions and higher NOx formation is at low EGR. Thus, the higher EGR additions, as shown in Fig. 4, forms lower quantity of NOx and thereby advance the lower temperature heat release. 2 15 1 5 2 15 1 5 EGR = % EGR = 5 % EGR = 1 % EGR = 2 % 18 rpm 1 2 3 EGR = % EGR = 5 % EGR = 1 % EGR = 2 % 36 rpm 1 2 3 Fig.4. variation of the NOX concentration as a function of different EGR additions. NOx (max),tb (max) 25 2 15 1 5 NO 18 rpm NO-36 rpm Tb(max) -18 rpm Tb (max)-36 rpm.1.1.1 % of NO added Thus, high EGR additions lowers the charge temperature and low NOx quantity could increase the reactivity of the cool flame, whereas low EGR additions leads to the higher NOx formation as shown in Fig. 4, which would results in the retarded cool flame formations. This could be due to the fact that although lower EGR additions leads to higher charge temperature but higher NOx presence could retard the cool flame reactivity. It can be seen from Fig. 4 that the increase in the speed is found to 299

Am. J. Sci. Ind. Res., 21, 1(2): 293-32 decrease the NOx formation. If NOx presence in the EGR plays an important role in the cool flame chemistry, then at higher speed the autoignition would advance due to the lower quantity of NOx in the EGR. Influence of NO Recent work by Risberg et al. (26) has demonstrated that NO doping in the unburned gas charge can provide a precise control autoignition phasing inside the HCCI engine. They have varied the NO doping from 4 ppm to 476 ppm and found that combustion phasing was advanced up to 12.5 CAD by the influence of NO doping. They found that at low NO addition the combustion phasing is advanced whereas the addition of large quantity retards it. The other strategy which is finding significant attentions from the researcher is the trapped exhaust gas residuals to control the incylinder temperature before autoignition. Both of these strategies, in combination, could be exploited for autoignition control inside the HCCI engines. However, for successful application of NO doping either NO has to be added as externally (Risberg et al., 26) or the NOx formed inside the burned gas could be used. Preferably, second approach would be more practical, if a good understanding of the quantity of NOx formed inside the burned gas region is established. This has lead to the investigation of the quantification of NOx formed inside the burned gas region for the varying engine operating conditions. As found from the above investigations, the range of doping used by Risberg et al. (26) is within the quantity of NOx formed at different engine operating conditions for HCCI operation. This establishes the fact that enough NOx is formed inside HCCI operation so as to be utilized for the autoignition phasing control. In this section, investigation is carried out to establish whether doping of the amount of NO influences the NOx formation inside the burned gas region. Fig. 5 shows the maximum NOx formed and the burned gas temperatures formed. The quantity used for doping are.1 %,.1%, and.1% for the different load and speed conditions. It can be seen from the figure that the additions of the above quantity of NO does not introduce any variation in the NOx formation for both the conditions. This establishes that a small quantity of NO used for doping in one stroke of the cycle would not significantly alter the NOx formations for use in the further strokes. NOx(ppm), Tb(K) 14 12 1 8 6 4 2 λ = 1.1 NO 18 rpm NO-36 rpm Tb (Max)-18 rpm Tb(max)-36 rpm.1.1.1 % of NO added Fig.5. Maximum NOx and mean burned gas temperature formation with varying NO addition in the unburned charge. This stability would be highly useful for developing any future autoignition strategies for HCCI engines. The variation of the in-cylinder pressure and temperature before the start of ignition for HCCI engines is also important. This is because the autoignition process is chemical kinetics dependent, which is highly dependent on the initial temperature and pressure conditions. It can be seen from Fig. 6 that the in-cylinder unburned gas temperature and pressure conditions significantly varies as function of the EGR addition is changed. The maximum difference is found to be at low speed conditions (N=18 rpm), where the unburned charge temperature is found to decrease from 14 K to 121K when the EGR is changed from % to 2 %, a decrease of 2 K. Also, the pressure is found to decrease from 22 bars to 19.5 bars, a decrease of 2.5 bars. The increase of speed from 18 rpm to 36 rpm leads to the increase of unburned gas temperature of nearly 2 K. 3

Am. J. Sci. Ind. Res., 21, 1(2): 293-32 Pressure (Bars) Tunburned at SOI (K) 24 23 22 21 2 19 18 18 16 14 12 1 18 rpm 24 rpm 3 rpm 36 rpm 5 1 2 EGR % 18 rpm 24 rpm 3 rpm 36 rpm 5 1 2 EGR % Fig.6. Pressure and mean unburned gas temperature at different percent of EGR. CONCLUSIONS: An evaluation of the quantity of NOx and temperatures formed inside the burned gas region for HCCI engines at varying engine operating conditions is obtained computationally. This is performed because it is very difficult to be investigated experimentally. Also NO formed in the burned region has recently shown good potential for autoignition control inside HCCI engines. From the present work, following conclusions can be drawn: A multi-zones model is tuned successfully with the experimental test data of HCCI engine. A multi-zones model establishes that even at very high λ, recompression effects leads to the establishment of the burned gas temperature difference, which leads to the increase in mean both burned gas temperature and NOx formation at different positions inside the burned region. In the ten-zones model, the recompression is found to be maximum in the first zone, where the temperature is found to increase of around 28 K. The tenth zones does not undergo any recompression effect as it is the last zone to be burned, therefore, no further increase in its maximum burned gas temperature is observed. Since temperature in the burned gas region has a direct influence on the NOx formation, the maximum NOx is formed inside the first zone, which undergoes maximum recompression effect and hence maximum rise in temperature. The decrease in excess air factor leads to a significant increase in NOx formation. The variation in the formation of the NOx at different SOI for different engine speed is also studied. The start of ignition is found to significantly affect the NOx formation. Advance of ignition timing of 5 CAD leads to 1 % increase in the NOx formation. Exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) is also found to significantly affect the NOx formation. At no EGR conditions, HCCI operation produces NOx of around 3 ppm. However, it found to decrease to 4 ppm when the EGR level is increased to 2%. Doping of NO in the unburned gas charge is found to introduce no significant effect on the burned gas temperature and NOx formations. Unburned charge temperature and pressures are found to be affected with both the percent of EGR addition and engine speed. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The author wishes to express thanks to Dr Khizer Saeed at University of Brighton UK. Definitions, acronyms, abbreviations: BTDC: Before Top Dead Centre CAD : Crank Angle Degrees CI : Compression Ignition EGR : Exhaust gas recirculation HCCI: Homogeneous charge compression ignition NOx : Oxides of Nitrogen SI : Spark Ignition SOI : Start of Ignition Tb :Mean burned gas temperature 31

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