Experimental Investigation of Diesel Fuel Blended with Emulsified Biodiesel Produced from Orange Peel & Bran Oil on Diesel Engine Performance and Emissions Characteristics

International Journal of Mechanical Engineering

© 2020 by SSRG - IJME Journal

Volume 7 Issue 5

Year of Publication : 2020

Authors : P.Janarthanan, Dr. K. Anandavelu, M.E., Ph.D

10.14445/23488360/IJME-V7I5P104

How to Cite?

P.Janarthanan, Dr. K. Anandavelu, M.E., Ph.D, "Experimental Investigation of Diesel Fuel Blended with Emulsified Biodiesel Produced from Orange Peel & Bran Oil on Diesel Engine Performance and Emissions Characteristics," SSRG International Journal of Mechanical Engineering, vol. 7,  no. 5, pp. 20-36, 2020. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488360/IJME-V7I5P104

Abstract:

This project aims to compare performance, emission, and combustion of orange and bran oil when blended with diesel in a single-cylinder four-stroke water-cooled direct injection diesel engine. Because of modernizations and the increase in the number of automobiles worldwide, diesel consumption has massively increased. As petroleum is a non-renewable major source of energy and its reserves are scare nowadays, there is a need for research in finding alternative fuels for automobiles. And also, biodiesels are renewable, non-toxic, and eco-friendly fuels that can play an important role in automobile industries. Based on the above facts, various studies and investigations are carried out with different vegetable oils to prepare cost-effective and reduced NOX with improved efficient biodiesel. After the intensive study, the identified was orange peel & bran oil. The intensive focus of alternative fuels for the compression ignition engines has been extracted from orange peel & bran oil is found to be potential Fuel for CI engines. The properties of orange peel & bran oil are determined by using standard techniques, and properties are compared with diesel.
The mixed orange peel & bran oil have a lesser cetane number than diesel, which prevented the 100% replacement of diesel with the mixed orange peel & bran oil in the diesel engines.
The mixing proportions are B25%, B50%, B75%, with varying percentage of exhaust gas recirculation. The analysis focuses on all regulated exhaust pollutants, i.e., Opacity, Nitrogen Oxides (NOx), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Carbon-Di-Oxide (CO2), and Unburned Hydrocarbons (UHC). Performance analyses such as Brake Power (BP), Brake Specific Fuel Consumption (BSFC), and Brake Thermal Efficiency (BTE) are considered for experimental investigation.

Keywords:

Diesel Fuel, Diesel Engine

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