Contact of fuels with engine components at low and elevated temperatures for various amounts of time is found to be challenging as this contact has several effects on engine fuel system components and fuels. Also, storage of fuels for a long period of time is found to have almost the same effect on both engine components and fuels upon engine use. In this thesis fuel and engine components’ contact have been studied for four typical metals used in the construction of many engine fuel systems; in form of pure or alloys (copper, aluminium, mild carbon steel and stainless steel), studied after contact with three of the currently available fuels for use in compression ignition engines. Ultra-low sulphur diesel fuel (ULSD) was used as the fossil fuel, rapeseed methyl ester (RME) as the first generation biofuel and finally gas-to-liquid (GTL) as the second generation of biofuel, obtained via the Fischer-Tropsch process. The investigation was performed in different sections: fuels and metals have been studied for any degradation after contact at low and high temperatures for short and long exposure times, and an understanding of the corrosion process and any degradation on both metals and fuels has been achieved; due to the high hygroscopic character of these fuels and the presence of possible impurities in the fuel, the investigation was extended for analysis of the effect of the presence or absence of absorbed water and dissolved air (in the form of Oxygen) in fuels on degradation and corrosion characteristics of these fuels.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:619413 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Norouzi, Shahrouz |
| Publisher | University of Birmingham |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5369/ |
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