SBIR Phase I: Continuous Water in Fuel Emulsification to Decrease Fuel Consumption and Increase Brake Thermal Efficiency in a Diesel Engine for Maritime Application

SBIR 第一阶段：通过燃油乳化中的连续水来降低航海柴油机的燃油消耗并提高制动热效率

• 批准号: 2150734
• 负责人: Boris Blancovich
• 金额: $ 24.57万
• 依托单位: RE-SYNTH INTERNATIONAL, CORP.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-15 至 2023-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150734&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Continuous; Water; Fuel

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will be to enable maritime shipping companies around the world to decrease their energy consumption costs and improve greenhouse gas emissions. The economic benefits are substantial since almost half of maritime shipping operating costs are related to fuel consumption. The expected outcome of this project is a technology that will be retrofitted to existing shipping fleets to increase fuel efficiency while decreasing environmentally harmful emissions. This project seeks to improve thermal efficiency of fuel distillates, ranging from diesel to heavy fuel oil, by using water in fuel emulsions. The technical approach involves the development of process to continuously and consistently achieve a homogeneous emulsion that can efficiently ignite inside an internal combustion engine. An inline system for immediate consumption will be developed to mitigate phase separation and droplet agglomeration. The novel emulsion will provide adequate heat content, lubricity, and low corrosivity comparable to standard water-free fuel. The increased thermal efficiency will in part contribute to efforts by the maritime industry to achieve their goals of reducing CO2 emissions per transport work by at least 40% by 2030, pursuing efforts towards 70% by 2050.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目的更广泛影响是使世界各地的海上运输公司能够降低其能源消耗成本并改善温室气体的排放。 由于海上运输运营成本的几乎一半与燃料消耗有关，因此经济利益是可观的。该项目的预期结果是一项技术，该技术将改装为现有的运输机队，以提高燃油效率，同时减少环境有害的排放。该项目旨在通过在燃油乳液中使用水来提高燃油馏出物的热效率，从柴油到重型燃油。 技术方法涉及过程的开发，以连续且一致地达到均匀的乳液，该乳液可以在内部燃烧引擎内有效点燃。 将开发出一种直接消耗的内联系统，以减轻相分离和液滴团聚。这种新型乳液将提供足够的热含量，润滑性和与标准无水燃料相当的低腐蚀性。 提高的热效率将在某种程度上有助于海上行业的努力，以在2030年到2050年将每辆运输工具的二氧化碳排放量减少至少40％，到2050年，这一奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并一直在追求70％的努力。认为值得通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持。