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Particle is the main pollutant in diesel engine exhaust, which seriously endangers human health and the atmospheric environment. The use of alcohol fuels in diesel engines can effectively reduce particle emissions, but alcohol fuels with different carbon chain lengths will affect the generation process of particles, which in turn changes the physicochemical properties and oxidation characteristics of the particles. Therefore, it is particularly important to study the properties of particle emitted by diesel engines fueling alcohol fuels with different carbon chain lengths. The physicochemical properties of soot emitted from commercial diesel engines were studied by thermogravimetric analyzer, HRTEM (high-resolution transmission electron microscopy), and XPS (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy) in this paper, respectively. The diesel engine used alcohol-diesel blends of different carbon chain lengths with the same oxygen content as fuels, such as methanol/diesel blend (M10), n-butanol/diesel blend (NB25), and n-octanol/diesel blend (NO45), and pure diesel fuel was used as a reference. The results showed that the use of alcohols reduced the fractal dimension (D) of particles, and the NB25 particles had the smallest D. Moreover, the particles of blended fuels had smaller primary particle diameter (d) compared to pure diesel. However, with the use of short-chain to long-chain alcohols, an increasing tendency of d was observed. In terms of the nanostructure, as the use of short-chain to long-chain alcohols, the L (fringe length) increased, both the d (fringe separation distance) and T (fringe tortuosity) reduced, which was not favorable for the oxidation of the particles. In addition, in terms of oxygenated surface functional groups (SFGs), the CO group occupied a higher proportion in most working conditions relative to the groups of CO and COO. Further analysis showed that the d and nanostructure had more influence on the oxidation behavior of soot than D and oxygenated SFGs.
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