Review of Laser Ignition for Methane-Air Mixtures

Abstract:

Reducing vehicle pollutant emissions and fuel consumption is becoming more and more important challenges, while lean-burning are a promising development. However, lean-burning may leads to other problems including combustion instability and incomplete combustion. Recently, laser ignition system has become an attractive field of research in order to replace the conventional spark plug ignition systems in the internal combustion engines to solve problem above. Moreover, methane was regarded as very promising fuel. Therefore, the objective of this article is to review the ignition and combustion characteristics of methane-air mixtures by laser-induced ignition.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 727-728)
• Pages: 592-596
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.727-728.592
• Online since: January 2015
• Authors: Hong Tao Wang, Cang Su Xu*
• Keywords: Flammable Limit, Laser Ignition, Methane-Air Mixtures, Minimum Ignition Energy

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