Effect of phenol group antioxidant on performance and emission characteristics of variable compression ratio diesel engine fuelled with diesel-palm biodiesel blend

Authors

  • Jaykumar M. Patel PG student, Mechanical Engineering Department, GEC-Bhuj, Gujarat, India
  • Vinod M. Makwana Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, GEC-Bhuj, Gujarat, India,
  • Rushi B. Rawal Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, GEC-Bhuj, Gujarat, India

Keywords:

Phenol group antioxidant, Palm biodiesel-diesel blends, NOx reduction, variable compression ratio, CI engine

Abstract

In conventional CI engine diesel is used as a fuel which provides better power, efficiency and basic specific fuel consumption, but it increases the CO2, CO, HC, SOX and NOx emission. These gases affect the environment and human health. It causes global warming, greenhouse effect and responsible for acid rain too. Diesel is nonrenewable energy resources and increases our dependency for importing fuel on other country. Due to depleting the fossil fuel and increasing effect of environment pollution from this fuel demands an ecofriendly alternative which can be used in diesel engine without any design modification. In this present work, palm-biodiesel and diesel blend B20 (20%palm biodiesel and 80% diesel) was used as alternate fuel. It was observed that compression ignition engine
with B20 emits higher level of NOx emission compared to pure diesel as fuel. Higher level of NOx emission can be reduced by adding phenol group antioxidant in biodiesel and its blend. Experiment has been done by taking palm biodiesel blend B20 at variable compression ratio for 4 stroke diesel engine. Result for performance and emission characteristics were analyzed.

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Published

2018-04-17

How to Cite

Patel, J. M. ., Makwana, V. M. ., & Rawal, R. B. . (2018). Effect of phenol group antioxidant on performance and emission characteristics of variable compression ratio diesel engine fuelled with diesel-palm biodiesel blend. International Journal of Technical Innovation in Modern Engineering & Science, 4(4), 354–364. Retrieved from https://ijtimes.com/index.php/ijtimes/article/view/1918

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 4 (2018): Vol. 4 No. 4: Volume 4 Issue 4 (April-2018)

Section

Articles