4. Conclusion
This work investigated the impact of NO on knock onset in a CFR octane rating engine under constant knocking, continuous firing conditions. The influences of engine intake temperature, charge equivalence ratio, and fuel composition on the impact of NO were investigated with 0–800 ppm NO added via the engine intake. Major conclusions of this work are as follows.
• Temperature strongly affected the impact of NO on fuel iso-octane. With an engine intake temperature of 52 °C, NO advanced the knock onset of iso-octane (ϕ = 1.43) only up to 200 ppm, with a peak promotion at 25 ppm, and then inhibited it as more NO was added. The promotion effect became much stronger as temperature increased, where the knock onset is monotonically advanced with increasing levels of NO at the intake temperature of 200 °C.
• The impact of NO on iso-octane autoignition was affected by the mixture equivalence ratio. This effect, however, was complicated by the varying amounts of residual NO at different equivalence ratios and also strongly affected by the charge temperature.
• The impact of NO varied with fuel chemical composition. The seven gasoline surrogate fuels of a similar octane number showed that higher contents of toluene and ethanol led to stronger promotion effects which correlated to an increase of the octane sensitivity in these fuels.