Experimental Investigation on Performance of DI Diesel Engine Using Madhuca Indica Biodiesel and its Diesel Blends

Authors

  • Sirivella Vijaya Bhaskar  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sreenidhi Inst. of Science & Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Keywords:

Biodiesel, Mahuca Indica Oil, Methyl Ester, Engine Performance, Diesel Blends

Abstract

The lack and high price of fossil fuel forced the scientific community look forward towards alternative renewable energy sources. The past research results revealed that vegetable oils can be used as fuel in unmodified dieel engine. But the direct use of edible and non-edible oils as fuel in diesel engine causes severe damage/reducing the operating life of the engine as well as releasing very hazardous exhaust emissions due to number of unfavorable properties such as high kinematic viscosity, density, acid value and lower cetane number. In the recent time, to overcome the mentioned problems, the transesterified biodiesels are gaining momentum further as fuel in diesel engines as one of the alternative renewable energy source. In this research work, the experimental performance evaluation of 4-stroke, single cylinder, and water cooled direct injection diesel engine was carried-out using mahuca indica oil methyl ester (MIOME) and its diesel blends as alternative biodiesel fuel to diesel. The experiment results revealed that B20M blend of mdhuca indica biodiesel has comparable brake thermal efficiency as diesel fuel. B20M has lowest and B100M has highest BSFC, BSEC among all the tested biodiesel blends. B20M has demonstrated comparable performance as diesel fuel and it can be considered as alternative to diesel.

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2018-02-28

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Volume 4, Issue 2, January-February-2018

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Sirivella Vijaya Bhaskar, " Experimental Investigation on Performance of DI Diesel Engine Using Madhuca Indica Biodiesel and its Diesel Blends , International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Volume 4, Issue 2, pp.565-570, January-February-2018.