Publication Type : Conference Paper
Publisher : AIP Conference Proceedings
Source : AIP Conference Proceedings, American Institute of Physics Inc., Volume 1859 (2017)
ISBN : 9780735415331
Campus : Bengaluru
School : School of Engineering
Department : Mechanical Engineering
Year : 2017
Abstract : In this research work an experimental investigation of butanol-biodisel-diesel blends on combustion, performance and emission characteristics of a direct injection (DI) diesel engine is carried out. The blends are prepared at different proportions and fuel properties such as calorific value, viscosity, flash point and fire point, cloud point, pour point of butanol (B), biodiesel (B), diesel (D), biodiesel-diesel (BD) blends and butanol-biodiesel-diesel (BBD) blends are determined. The engine test is conducted at different speed and load. From the results obtained for fuel properties we can observe that the flash, fire and pour point, viscosity and density are decreasing by increasing the percentage of butanol in BBD blends. It is also observed that the performance parameters such as brake thermal efficiency (BTE) and exhaust gas temperature increases with increase in the proportion of butanol in BBD blend. However, the brake specific fuel consumption (BFSC) decreases with increase in the proportion of butanol in BBD blend. The increase of butanol in BBD blends also influence to increase on emission characteristic such as carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbon (HC) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx). © 2017 Author(s).
Cite this Research Publication : A. S. Divakar Shetty, Dineshkumar, L., Koundinya, S., and Mane, S. K., “Experimental investigation on CRDI engine using butanol-biodiesel-diesel blends as fuel”, in AIP Conference Proceedings, 2017, vol. 1859.