Open AccessEFFECT OF STERCULIA FOETIDA BIODIESEL ON SINGLE CYLINDER FOUR STROKE DIESEL ENGINE PERFORMANCE AND EMISSIONS
Author(s) -
M. Vijayakumar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of advances in chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2321-807X
DOI - 10.24297/jac.v12i12.792
Subject(s) - biodiesel , thermal efficiency , diesel fuel , four stroke engine , diesel engine , pulp and paper industry , biofuel , combustion , environmental science , brake specific fuel consumption , materials science , cylinder , waste management , automotive engineering , chemistry , combustion chamber , engineering , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering , catalysis
In the present work, transesterified new biodiesel of sterculia foetida oil is mixed with diesel and the engine performance, combustion and emission was analysed. The primary objective work is to produce a new alternate and biodegradable fuel for compression ignition engine. The biofuel oil is an extract from sterculia foetida seed and transesterfied with 20 % methanol and 2 % KOH. The transesterfied biofuel concentrations were varied at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% with diesel viz. B25, B50, B75 and B100. The engine is operated at different load conditions with different concentration of fuel. The experiments are conducted and the fuel blend B25 produces maximum of brake thermal efficiency in comparison with other biodiesel blends and produced maximum heat release and minimum emission produced at B25 biodiesel blend.