Combustion Characteristics of CI Engine Running with Biodiesel Blends

Tesfa, Belachew, Mishra, Rakesh, Gu, Fengshou and Ball, Andrew (2011) Combustion Characteristics of CI Engine Running with Biodiesel Blends. In: International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ'11), 13-15 April 2011, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

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Abstract

Biodiesel is one of the promising renewable, alternative and environmentally friendly biofuels that can be used in diesel engine with little or no modification in the engine. In the present study an experimental investigation has been carried out on the combustion and performance characteristics of a CI engine running with biodiesel under steady state operating conditions. The experimental work has been conducted on a four-cylinder, four -stroke, direct injection (DI) and turbocharged diesel engine. In this investigation, biodiesel (produced from the waste oil by transesterfication process) and normal diesel have been used. During the experiment the in-cylinder pressure and the specific fuel consumption were measured. The experimental results of this study can be summarised as follows. The tests on engine running with different fuels (biodiesel and diesel) have resulted almost overlapped P-V diagrams. The power outputs at 1300rpm and 105, 210, 315Nm and 420 loads of the diesel and biodiesel are almost the same. The engine running with biodiesel has produced slightly higher in-cylinder pressure and peak heat release rate than the engine running with normal diesel at all operating conditions. Furthermore, the brake specific fuel consumption values for the engine running with biodiesel are higher than the engine running with normal diesel by a maximum of 14%. However, the thermal efficiency of the engine running with biodiesel is lower than engine running by diesel by 10%.

Key words: combustion characteristics, brake specific fuel consumption, thermal efficiency

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	combustion characteristics, brake specific fuel consumption, thermal efficiency
Subjects:	T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Schools:	School of Computing and Engineering School of Computing and Engineering > Automotive Engineering Research Group School of Computing and Engineering > Diagnostic Engineering Research Centre > Energy, Emissions and the Environment Research Group School of Computing and Engineering > Diagnostic Engineering Research Centre > Machinery Condition and Performance Monitoring Research Group School of Computing and Engineering > Diagnostic Engineering Research Centre > Measurement System and Signal Processing Research Group
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Depositing User:	Belachew Tesfa
Date Deposited:	01 Mar 2011 14:20
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2016 03:58
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9676

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