Esters as a potential renewable fuel: A review of the combustion characteristics

F Oppong, C Xu, X Li, Z Luo - Fuel Processing Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Esters are considered as potential fuels in the transportation sector including road, marine
shipping, and aviation to control greenhouse gas emissions. In the context of this possibility …

Technical-environmental assessment of CO2 conversion process to dimethyl carbonate/ethylene glycol

X Gu, X Zhang, Z Yang, W Shen, C Deng… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Utilization of CO 2 to produce value-added chemicals is a promising approach to mitigate
greenhouse gas emissions. In this work, a new process for the conversion of CO 2 to …

Continuous synthesis of oxymethylene ether fuels from dimethyl ether in a heterogeneously catalyzed liquid phase process

M Drexler, P Haltenort, U Arnold… - Chemie Ingenieur …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oxymethylene ethers (OME) are an attractive alternative to fossil diesel fuel due to strongly
reduced harmful emissions. An anhydrous, liquid phase production process based on …

Synthesis of methylal and poly (oxymethylene) dimethyl ethers from dimethyl ether and trioxane

CF Breitkreuz, N Hevert, N Schmitz… - Industrial & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Poly (oxymethylene) dimethyl ethers (OME) are interesting synthetic fuels that could replace
fossil diesel fuel. Therefore, economic routes for OME production have to be developed. One …

Spray dynamics of synthetic dimethyl carbonate and its blends with gasoline

W Huang, RH Pratama, M Oguma, K Kinoshita… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Synthetic dimethyl carbonate (DMC) is a promising alternative or oxygenated additive fuel to
reduce not only CO 2 but also particle number (PN) emissions from gasoline direct injection …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of diesel-OME1 blended fuel on combustion characteristics of a heavy-duty compression ignition engine by a numerical study

K Ghadamkheir, J Zareei, X Yang, M Hatami - Alexandria Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Diesel engines are playing an important role in the transportation system and regardless to
their acceptable efficiency (near 40%), the main problems are the amounts of CO 2 and soot …

Potential analysis of a dmc/mefo mixture in a DISI single and multi-cylinder light vehicle gasoline engine

S Blochum, B Gadomski, M Retzlaff, F Thamm… - … International Journal of …, 2021 - sae.org
In this study a mixture of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and methyl formate (MeFo) was used as
a synthetic gasoline replacement. These synthetic fuels offer CO2-neutral mobility if the fuels …

An assessment of soot chemical property from a modern diesel engine fueled with dimethyl carbonate-diesel blends

C Fan, Z Guan, J Wei, M Pan, H Huang, M Wei - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Dimethyl carbonate (DMC) is a promising alternative fuel for diesel engines. Comparing with
the traditional diesel fuel, the DMC application can lead to a different combustion process …

Continuous Anhydrous Synthesis of Oxymethylene Dimethyl Ethers by Reaction of Dimethyl Ether with Molecular Formaldehyde

A Billion, J Schulte, A Vogel, F Hilfinger, I Krossing - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A novel gaseous synthesis route to oxymethylene dimethyl ethers (OMEn, n= 3− 5) starting
from CO2 and green H2 by using molecular formaldehyde (FA) and dimethyl ether (DME) is …

Progress in the anhydrous production of oxymethylene ethers (OME) as a renewable diesel fuel in a liquid phase process

M Drexler, P Haltenort, U Arnold, J Sauer… - Catalysis Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Oxymethylene ethers (OME) are a type of synthetic diesel fuel with particularly beneficial
emission characteristics, caused by the presence of oxygen in the molecule. A production …