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    A car is equipped with a flexible four cylinder SI engine running on a mixture of methanol and gasoline. As the percentage of methanol in the fuel increases from 10% to 85%, the air-fuel ratio that the engine requires must change. Specifically, as the methanol percentage increases, the required air-fuel ratio decreases from 14.53 to 8.09. This is because methanol has a lower molecular weight than gasoline, so more air is needed to combust a lower methanol fuel mixture than a higher methanol mixture.

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    A car is equipped with a flexible four cylinder SI engine running on a mixture of methanol and gasoline. As the percentage of methanol in the fuel increases from 10% to 85%, the air-fuel ratio that the engine requires must change. Specifically, as the methanol percentage increases, the required air-fuel ratio decreases from 14.53 to 8.09. This is because methanol has a lower molecular weight than gasoline, so more air is needed to combust a lower methanol fuel mixture than a higher methanol mixture.

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    A car is equipped with a flexible four cylinder SI engine running on a mixture of methanol and gasoline. As the percentage of methanol in the fuel increases from 10% to 85%, the air-fuel ratio that the engine requires must change. Specifically, as the methanol percentage increases, the required air-fuel ratio decreases from 14.53 to 8.09. This is because methanol has a lower molecular weight than gasoline, so more air is needed to combust a lower methanol fuel mixture than a higher methanol mixture.

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    A car is equipped with a flexible four cylinder SI engine running on a mixture of methanol and gasoline. As the percentage of methanol in the fuel increases from 10% to 85%, the air-fuel ratio that the engine requires must change. Specifically, as the methanol percentage increases, the required air-fuel ratio decreases from 14.53 to 8.09. This is because methanol has a lower molecular weight than gasoline, so more air is needed to combust a lower methanol fuel mixture than a higher methanol mixture.

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    A car is equipped with a flexible four cylinder SI engine running in a mixture of methanol and

    gasoline at an equivalence ratio of 0.95. How must the air-fuel ratio change as the fuel flow to the
    engine shifts from 10% methanol to 85% methanol?

    SOLUTION:

    @ 10 % methanol ; 1kg fuel

    FUEL MASS(kg) M(kg/mol) MOLS(m/M) MOLE FRACTION


    CH3OH 0.10 32 0.003125 .278
    C8H15 0.9 111 0.008108 .722
    1 .011233 1.00

    For 1 kg fuel reacting with stoichiometric air:

    0.278 CH3OH + 0.722 C8H15 + 8.9005 O2 + 8.9005(3.76) N2 6.054 CO2 + 5.971 H2O + 8.9005(3.76) N2

    For 1kg mol fuel reacting with an equivalence ratio of 0.95:


    8.9005 8.9005 8.9005
    0.278 CH3OH + 0.722 C8H15 + O2 + (3.76) N2 6.054 CO2 + 5.971 H2O + (3.76) N2 +
    0.95 0.95 0.95

    0.4680 O2
    8.9005
    (4.76)(28.97)
    0.95
    raf = ; raf = 14.53
    .278(32)+ .722(111)

    @ 85 % methanol ; 1 kg fuel

    FUEL MASS(kg) M(kg/mol) MOLS(m/M) MOLE FRACTION


    CH3OH 0.85 32 0.0265625 .952
    C8H15 0.15 111 0.0013513 .048
    1 0.0279138 1.00

    For 1 kg fuel reacting with stoichiometric air:

    .952 CH3OH + .048 C8H15 + 1.992 O2 + 1.992(3.76) N2 1.336 CO2 + 2.264H2O + 1.992(3.76) N2

    For 1kg mol fuel reacting with an equivalence ratio of 0.95:


    1.992 1.992 1.992
    0.952 CH3OH + 0.048 C8H15 + O2 + (3.76) N2 1.336 CO2 + 2.264 H2o + (3.76) N2 +
    0.95 0.95 0.95

    0.1048 O2
    1.992
    (4.76)(28.97)
    0.95
    raf = .278(32)+ .722(111)
    ; raf = 8.09

    Answer : 6.44 ; from 14.53 to 8.09

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