Engine Performance Investigations of Palm Oil, Jatropha Oil and Waste Cooking Oil as Alternative Fuel

Abstract:

The continued using of petroleum energy as a sourced for fuel is widely recognized as unsustainable because of the decreasing of supplies while increasing of the demand. Therefore, it becomes a global agenda to develop a renewable, sustainable and alternative fuel to meets with all the demand. Thus, biodiesel seems to be one of the best choices. In Malaysia, the biodiesel used is from edible vegetable oil sources; palm oil. The uses of palm oil as biodiesel production source have been concern because of the competition with food materials. In this study, various types of biodiesel feedstock are being studied and compared with diesel. The purpose of this comparison is to obtain the optimum engine performance of these different types of biodiesel (edible, non-edible, waste cooking oil) on which are more suitable to be used as alternative fuel. The optimum engine performance effect can be obtains by considering the Brake Power (BP), Specific Fuel Consumption (SFC), Exhaust Gas Temperature (EGT) and Brake Thermal Efficiency (BTE).

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1113)
• Pages: 674-678
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1113.674
• Online since: July 2015
• Authors: Syarifah Yunus*, Noriah Yusoff, Muhammad Faiz Fikri Ahmad Khaidzir, Siti Khadijah Alias, Freddawati Rashiddy Wong, Syazuan Abdul Latip, Amirul Abd Rashid
• Keywords: Alternative Fuel, Engine Performance, Jatropha Oil, Palm Oil, Waste Cooking Oil

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