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| Title: | Effect of injection timing on performance, combustion and emission characteristics of diesel engine using mahua oil methyl ester as fuel |
| Authors: | Solaimuthu, Chandrakasan
Govindarajan, Palanisamy |
| Keywords: | Diesel
Engine performance
Injection pressure
Injection timing
Mahua oil methyl ester |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | This study presents effect of
injection timing on performance, combustion and emission characteristics of
mahua biodiesel
(Madhuca indica) and its
blends with pure diesel on a 4 stroke tangentially vertical single cylinder (TV
1) direct injection diesel
engine. Standard injection
pressure (220 bar) is maintained throughout the experiment. Injection timings
(22°, 23° and 24° bTDC)
were considered under steady state
conditions at maximum load condition of the engine. At injection timing of 22°
bTDC, blend
B25 (25% mahua biodiesel and 75%
pure diesel, by vol) gave optimum performance, which is very close to pure
diesel. Thus B25
fuel can be effectively used in a
diesel engine as an alternative fuel without any modification in the engine.
Diesel (25%) thus saved
will greatly help the interests of railways in
meeting the demand for fuel, as diesel trains are operated at maximum load
condition. |
| Page(s): | 69-74 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1084 (Online); 0022-4456 (Print) |
| Source: | JSIR Vol.71(01) [January 2012]
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