Diesel engine emissions and performance from blends of karanja methyl ester and diesel

✍ Scribed by H. Raheman; A.G. Phadatare

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 359 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-9534
• DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2004.03.002

✦ Synopsis

This paper presents the results of investigations carried out in studying the fuel properties of karanja methyl ester (KME) and its blend with diesel from 20% to 80% by volume and in running a diesel engine with these fuels. Engine tests have been carried out with the aim of obtaining comparative measures of torque, power, speciÿc fuel consumption and emissions such as CO, smoke density and NOx to evaluate and compute the behaviour of the diesel engine running on the above-mentioned fuels. The reduction in exhaust emissions together with increase in torque, brake power, brake thermal e ciency and reduction in brake-speciÿc fuel consumption made the blends of karanja esteriÿed oil (B20 and B40) a suitable alternative fuel for diesel and could help in controlling air pollution.