Abstract
It is needed to greatly modify fuel component because of strengthened sulfur component regulations in fuel oil for ships by IMO (International Maritime Organization). Light Cycle Oil (LCO) which contains less sulfur component has been focused as a base fuel. The increase of the LCO mixing ratio in fuels for diesel engines is expected in the future. Evaporation characteristics which are one of a physical process in spray combustion affect flame stabilities and combustion emissions. The objective of this study is to clarify the relationships between evaporation characteristics and fuel characteristics of LCO by conducting evaporation experiments of LCO. The evaporation experiments of LCO were conducted by single LCO droplets at various ambient temperatures (473~873 K) and pressures (0.1, 0.5, 1.0 MPa). Moreover, the evaporation characteristics of 5 types LCO were compared to clarify how the fuel properties affect the evaporation characteristics. As a result, it was found that the difference of the droplet lifetimes between fuels is large at low ambient temperature. This is because high boiling components in LCO make the droplet lifetimes of LCO longer from the middle to the late of evaporation. The pressure dependence of evaporation coefficient of some LCO at high ambient temperature was different from that of single component fuel. This is possibly caused by effect of multicomponent of LCO on the behavior of the evaporation coefficients.
