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As the exhaustion of petroleum resources and air pollution problems are getting more serious day by day, demands for low emission levels and higher thermal efficiency of vehicle engines have been increased. In light of this, the diesel engine has many advantages such as high thermal efficiency, a cheaper price of fuel, and what is more it has a low CO2 exhaustion level well known as the factor of ‘Global Warming’, therefore the use of diesel engines is getting increased. However in the case of diesel engine, NOx increases in the local high temperature region, and particulate matter increases in fuel rich regions. That is why, getting down the peak temperature to reduce NOx emission and making better air-fuel mixing to minimize particulate matter formation are required and Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) is a technique which can make those conditions.

Bio-gas as an internal combustion (I.C.) engine fuel has many advantages such as cheaper fuel cost, low emission levels and especially the neutral recirculation loop of carbon dioxide, which is one of the principal factors in global warming. In this study, positive potentialities of bio-gas were investigated using a micro co-generation engine. The mixing ratio of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) was changed to simulate various types of bio-gases. Intake air and fuel flow rates were controlled to change the equivalence ratio. The engine load condition could be changed with the electric output power used. Base on the result, the higher CO2 content rate slowed down the engine speed in the same load condition and the combustion speed generally decreased under the same load condition with maintaining the engine speed. However thermal efficiency increased with lean burn conditions and NOX emission decreased with higher CO2 mixing rates.

In present days, most of researches concerned with vehicle engines have been performed to reduce vehicle emissions and to improve engine efficiency. For the requirements, LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) engine which has lots of advantages such as low emission level, cheaper fuel cost and enough infrastructures has had lots of interest as an alternative fuel engine. What is more, it has a low emission level of CO2 well-known as the factor of ‘Global Warming’, thus the use of LPG engines has been increased. Especially since MPI(Multi Point Injection) type LPLi(Liquid Phase LPG injection) system was used for the fuel supply system, disadvantages of LPG engine such as low engine performance, decreased charging efficiency and cold starting difficulty have been improved and prejudices against LPG engines have been changed a lot. In light of this, the motion to use LPLi engines instead of diesel engines has been increasing.