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The adoption of highly efficient, low-emission alternative biofuels just got a boost thanks to $7 million worth of Department of Energy grants announced earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The University of Central Florida landed two grants worth more than $1.25 million, which will help the Department of Energy accelerate the introduction of affordable, scalable and sustainable high-performance alternative fuels for use in high-efficiency, low-emission vehicle engines. UCF and seven other teams won a total of eight grants.<\/p>\n

Competition was stiff and the UCF team bested hundreds of other multi-university teams. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, also successfully won a grant. Its team includes UCF Engineering Professor Subith Vasu, who also is working with the UCF team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are honored and excited to be the recipient of two of eight awards from this highly competitive program,\u201d said Debra Reinhart, associate vice president for research and scholarship. \u201cThese awards place us in an elite group of researchers who are paving the way toward maximizing fuel-use efficiency while minimizing environmental impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The federal agency announced the awards as part of its Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines initiative, which \u201caims to simultaneously transform both transportation fuels and vehicles in order to maximize performance and energy efficiency, minimize environmental impact, and accelerate widespread adoption of innovative combustion strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the challenge isn\u2019t just finding the best fuel that works with high-performance engines. To achieve widespread adoption, there are many other challenges that must be solved. For example, can the new fuel be piped into stations without leaking into surrounding soil and damaging the environment? Will special seals be needed in engines or at distribution points to protect engine parts and humans from fumes?<\/p>\n

UCF\u2019s project will not only look at the viability of compounds and their potential use in high-performing engines, but the team will put the compounds through nine tests that will provide information about the likelihood of being able to safely, efficiently and cost-effectively mass produce and deliver the alternative fuels.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be looking at hundreds of compounds,\u201d said UCF Engineering Assistant Professor Kareem Ahmed, who is the lead investigator for the UCF-led project. \u201cSome of them have never been tested, so we will be putting them through an array of tests to explore and evaluate fuel-spray atomization, flame topology, flame speed, auto-ignition, volatility, viscosity, soot\/coking, and compatibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

These tests will provide the DOE information that will help the agency and engine manufacturers determine which fuels might be good ones to pursue for further development.<\/p>\n

UCF\u2019s experience with similar fuel studies for aircraft engines helped position the university to be competitive, Ahmed said. And the Center for Advanced Turbomachinery and Energy Research<\/a> on the main campus is positioned to test and provide the data.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis effort aims at holistic or comprehensive characterization of biofuels or any other alternative fuel,\u201d said UCF Engineering Professor and CATER director Jayanta Kapat. He is also a member of the team. \u201cMost prior research efforts have been aimed at production of fuels and\/or evaluation of a few properties. However, automotive applications, and supply-and-delivery logistics require a plethora of properties to be within prescribed ranges for such fuel to be classified as a \u2018drop-in\u2019 replacement. This is the need that this project will address.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kapat said he believes this is the first effort in holistic or comprehensive characterization of biofuels in a U.S university.<\/p>\n

Vasu\u2019s work with MIT is unique, as well. The project will construct computer models to predict the combustion chemistry of proposed biofuels, which can then be used to determine which of the proposed fuels will have high performance in advanced engines. Vasu\u2019s role will be to provide data from experiments in his lab, which will feed the computer models.<\/p>\n

\u201cMIT is a pioneer in this field of computer-generated models,\u201d Vasu said. \u201cThey are the main people doing it in this country. I\u2019m happy to be partnering with them. The shock tube experiments in my lab will provide data to calibrate their models and hopefully accelerate the process of finding the best fuel options among a sea of hundreds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vasu will also work on the UCF-led team.<\/p>\n

UCF researcher Richard Blair, who is also a member of CATER and UCF\u2019s Cluster for the Rational Design of Catalysts for Energy Applications and Propulsion, is providing his expertise in chemical and physical characterization of fuels to the project. Blair\u2019s work will provide new insight into the temperature-dependent properties of gasoline-equivalent fuels.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen that bio-derived fuels can have compositional differences that add challenges to realizing a drop-in fuel,\u201d Blair said.<\/p>\n

Ahmed said the development of this technology is critical not just for science\u2019s sake, but for the nation\u2019s security and economic future.<\/p>\n

\u201cGasoline and diesel-fuel combustion is the dominant source of automotive power generation,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a broad desire to develop alternative fuels and blended fuels for automotive combustion for the foreseeable future. The depleting availability of fuels has had a destabilizing influence on the economic security of the nation, while emission of carbon dioxide from combustion continues to impact the environment. In this context, there is a critical need to explore and implement these alternative biofuels in combustion systems that have high conversion efficiencies and minimized environmental impact.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The adoption of highly efficient, low-emission alternative biofuels just got a boost thanks to $7 million worth of Department of Energy grants announced earlier this month. 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