Open AccessEffect of ternary fuel blends on performance and emission characteristics of single cylinder diesel engine
Author(s) -
V. Vinodkumar,
A. Karthikeyan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2054/1/012007
Subject(s) - ternary operation , diesel fuel , materials science , nox , combustion , biodiesel , thermal efficiency , diesel engine , chemical engineering , thermodynamics , chemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis , physics , computer science , programming language , engineering
The higher alcohol such as hexanol was added at various concentrations with diesel in this current research work while retaining the neem biodiesel at 20% concentration to form the ternary fuel blend. In a single cylinder diesel engine, three distinct ternary blends (B20HB10, B20HB20, B20HB30) were taken and all the blends were tested and the results were contrasted with a binary blend (D80:B20, namely B20) and pure diesel fuel. The experiment showed that when the alcohol concentration rises from 10 % to 30 % because of the decrease in calorific value, the brake thermal efficiency decreases slightly. In addition, owing to the availability of intrinsic oxygen in it, all the ternary blend contributes to a decrease in HC and CO emissions, which leads to more complete combustion. It was also found that there was a substantial reduction in NOx emissions for all ternary blend due to the high latent heat of vaporization.