US EPA

8628347 

Journal Article 

Experimental analysis of engine performance and emission characteristics using biodiesel obtained from winter green oil 

Rajasekar, R; Ganesan, S 

2018 

Chk 

Indian Journal of Environmental Protection
ISSN: 0253-7141 

Scientific Publishers 

38 

12 

998-1003 

English 

Nowadays, the productivity of vehicles goes on increasing and in the same way the rate and emission of fuels also getting high.∗ In this paper, winter green oil has been blended with diesel in various proportions and three kinds of emulsion fuels were employed. The emulsion fuels are: (A) Diesel-80%, winter green oil-20% by volume, (B) Diesel-90%, winter green oil-10% by volume and (C) Diesel-95%, winter green oil-5% by volume. Due to the presence of molecular oxygen, present in the biodiesel, that leads to improved combustion and produces less polluting emission compared with a normal diesel engine. The performance testing has been done by using varying load conditions for each blended fuel at a constant speed of 1500 rpm. In the case of engine exhaust gas emission, reduction in HC (hydrocarbon), CO (carbon monoxide) and NOt (oxides of nitrogen) were found for B5, B10. The emission result in B20 is equal to diesel fuel. As a result of an investigation, the BTE (brake thermal efficiency) is increased and TFC (total fuel consumption) is decreased compared to diesel and carbon monoxide, hydrocarbon was reduced by 10% to 20%. At the same time oxides of nitrogen emission has increased by 5% to 8%. © 2018 Scientific Publishers. All rights reserved. 

Biodiesel; Carbon monoxide (co); Diesel engine; Hydrocarbon (hc); Oxides of nitrogen {noj; Winter green oil