Performance Evaluation of Diesel Engine Runs on Biodiesel Blending

Abstract:

Diesel plays a very important role in rapid depletion of conventional energy sources along with increasing demand and also major contributors of air pollutants. Diesel is used in the present days for engines and the invention of an alternative or a blend to the conventional diesel seems very essential to the energy crisis. Major portion of today's energy demand in India is with fossil fuels. Hence it is high time that alternate fuels for engines should be derived from indigenous sources. As India is an agricultural country, there is a wide scope for the production of corn oil from the germ of corn (maize). In this experiment, an attempt has been made to investigate four types of fuels are considered 100% Diesel, 90% Diesel+10% Corn oil Methyl Ester, 80% Diesel+20% Corn oil Methyl Ester, 70% Diesel+30% Corn oil Methyl Ester and 60% Diesel+40% Corn oil Methyl Ester. The various performance parameters like, brake thermal efficiency, Mechanical efficiency and brake specific fuel consumption were measured and analyzed. In the experiment it found the biodiesel blends gives comparable performance to diesel.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 592-594)
• Pages: 1719-1722
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.592-594.1719
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: V. Gopinath*, P. Suresh
• Keywords: Biodiesel, Blends, Diesel, Performance

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