Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2025, 27(3):B158-B169 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2025.034

Research on the Use of Biogas as an Additive to Compressed Natural Gas for Supplying Vehicle Engines

Oleksandr Kravchenko ORCID...1, *, Roman Symonenko ORCID...2, Juraj Gerlici ORCID...1, Andrii Golovan ORCID...3, Serhii Shymanskyi ORCID...4, Igor Gritsuk ORCID...5, Yuriy Grytsuk ORCID...6
1 University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
2 Center for Scientific Research of Complex Transport Problems, State Road Transport Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
3 Department of Navigation and Maritime Safety, Odesa National Maritime University, Odesa, Ukraine
4 Sector for Ensuring the Circulation of Cards for Digital Tachographs, State Road Transport Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
5 Department of Operation of Ship Power Plants, Kherson State Maritime Academy, Odessa, Ukraine
6 Department of General Engineering Training, Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Internal combustion engines, which operate in various load and speed conditions, are significant sources of environmental pollution that affect a vehicle's movement in traffic. Automotive engines typically operate in unsteady-state modes, transitioning cyclically from one operating mode to another during vehicle operation. The potential of using biogas as an additive to compressed natural gas for automotive engines was explored within this research. The results of experimental studies on the fuel efficiency and environmental performance of a vehicle with a petrol engine, converted to run on a mixture of compressed natural gas and biogas, are presented. A comparative analysis was conducted on the fuel and economic performance, as well as environmental indicators of A-92 petrol, compressed natural gas, and a mixture of compressed natural gas and biogas in the European driving cycle modes.

Keywords: biogas, compressed natural gas, alternative fuel, European driving cycle, harmful substances, internal combustion engine
Grants and funding:

This research was funded by the Cultural and Educational Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic in the project KEGA 031ZU-4/2023: Development of key competencies of the graduate study program Vehicles and Engines and KEGA 024ZU-4/2024: Deepening the knowledge of university students in the field of construction of transport means by carrying out professional and scientific research activities in the field; the Slovak Research and Development Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Sport in the project VEGA1/0513/22 “Investigation of the properties of railway brake components in simulated operating conditions on a flywheel brake stand”; the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia was under the project No. 09I03-03-V01-00129.

Conflicts of interest:

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: November 9, 2024; Accepted: March 18, 2025; Prepublished online: April 14, 2025; Published: July 1, 2025  Show citation

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Kravchenko, O., Symonenko, R., Gerlici, J., Golovan, A., Shymanskyi, S., Gritsuk, I., & Grytsuk, Y. (2025). Research on the Use of Biogas as an Additive to Compressed Natural Gas for Supplying Vehicle Engines. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 27(3), B158-169. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2025.034
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