Performance, Emission and Combustion Characteristics of Direct Injection Diesel Engine Running on Rice Bran Oil / Diesel Fuel Blend
Triglycerides and their derivatives are considered as viable alternatives for diesel fuels. Rice bran oil is used as diesel fuel. Highly viscous rice bran oil can be reduced by blending it with diesel fuel. The present research is aimed to investigate experimentally the performance, exhaust emission and combustion characteristics of a direct injection (DI) diesel engine, typically used in agricultural sector, over the entire load range when fuelled with rice bran oil and diesel fuel blends, RB10 (10% rice bran oil + 90% diesel fuel) to RB50. The performance, emission and combustion parameters of RB20 were found to be very close to neat diesel fuel (ND). The injector opening pressure (IOP) undoubtedly is of prime importance in diesel engine operation. Performance, emission and combustion characteristics with RB30 at enhanced IOPs are better than ND. Improved premixed heat release rate were noticed with RB30 when the IOP is enhanced.
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Biomass and Bioenergy, 25: 209-318
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evaluation of a vegetable oil fuelled compression ignition engine.
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using blends of diesel fuel with vegetable oils or bio-diesels of various
origins. Energy Conversion and Management, 47: 3272-3287.
[1] Herchel, T.S.; Machacon, C.; Yutaka M. et al., 2001. The Effect of
coconut oil and diesel fuel blends on diesel engine performance and
exhaust missions. JSAE Review, 22: 349-355.
[2] Silvo C.A. de Almeida, Carlos Rodrigues Belchior et al. (2002)
Performance of a diesel generator fuelled with palm oil. Fuel, 81: 2097-
2102.
[3] Murat, C. and Fikret Y. 2007. The use of hazelnut oil as a fuel in pre
chamber diesel engine. Applied Thermal Engineering, 27: 63-67.
[4] Nwafor, O.M.I. 2004. Emission characteristics of diesel engine running
on vegetable oil with elevated fuel inlet temperature. Biomass and
Bioenergy, 27: 507-511.
[5] Agarwal, D. and Agarwal, A.K. 2007. Performance and emissions
characteristics of Jatropha oil (preheated and blends) in a direct injection
compression ignition engine. Applied Thermal Engineering, 27: 3214-
2323.
[6] Heywood, J.B. 1998. Internal Combustion Engines Fundamentals, Mc
Graw Hill International Edition, Singapore.
[7] Agarwal, A.K. and Das. L.M. 2001. Bio-diesel development and
characterization for use as a fuel in compression ignition engines.
Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbine and Power Transactions of the
ASME, 123: 440-447.
[8] Altin, R.; Cetinkaya S. and Yucesu, H.S. 2001. The potential of using
vegetable oil fuel as fuel fior diesel engines. Energy Conversion and
Management, 42: 529-538.
[9] Agarwal, A.K.; Bijwe J. and Das. L.M. 2003. Effect of bio-diesel
utilization of wear of vital parts in compression ignition engine. Journal
of Engineering for Gas Turbine and Power Transactions of the ASME,
125: 604-611.
[10] Ramadahas, A.A.; Jayaraj, S. and Muraleedharan, C. 2004. Use of
vegetable oils as I.C.Engines fuel - A review. Renewable Energy,
29:727-742.
[11] He, Y. and Y.D.Bao, Y.D. 2003. Study on rapeseed oil as alternative fuel
for a single cylinder diesel engine. Renewable Energy, 28:1447-1453.
[12] Senthil, K.; Ramesh, A. and Nagalimgam, B. 2003. An experimental
comparison of methods to use methanol and Jatropha oil in a C.I.Engine.
Biomass and Bioenergy, 25: 209-318
[13] Huzayyin, A.S.; Bawady, A.H.; Rady M.A. and Dawood, A. 2004.
Experimental evaluation of Diesel engine performance and emission
using blends of jojoba oil and Diesel fuel. Energy Conversion and
Management, 45: 2093-2112.
[14] Agarwal D.; Lokesh Kumar, and Agarwal, A.K. 2008. Performance
evaluation of a vegetable oil fuelled compression ignition engine.
Renewable Energy, 33: 1147-1156.
[15] Venkataramana R.C. 2003. PhD thesis, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological
University, Hyderabad, Andra Pradesh, India.
[16] Barie, N.J. and Humke, A.L. 1981. Performance and emission
characteristics of a naturally aspirated diesel engine with vegetable oil
fuels. SAE, paper No. 810262.
[17] Scholl, K.W. and Sorenson, S.C. 1993. Combustion of soybean oil
methyl ester in a direct Injection Diesel Engine. SAE, paper No.
930934.
[18] Wang, Y.; Neil, H.; Phillip, E. et al., 2005. Performance and Emission
characteristics of a diesel engine using vegetable oil blended fuel.
Proceedings of ICEF2005, ASME ICE division, Fall Technical
Conference, September 11-14, Ottawa, Canada, 1-5.
[19] Rakopoulos, C.D.; Antonopoulos, K.A. et al., 2006. Comparative
performance and emissions study of a direct injection diesel engine
using blends of diesel fuel with vegetable oils or bio-diesels of various
origins. Energy Conversion and Management, 47: 3272-3287.
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