Title: An extensive study of a diesel engine propelled with biodiesel blend of Karanja

Authors: Nabnit Panigrahi

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Gandhi Institute for Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Abstract: An effort has been made to investigate the enhancing performance of a diesel engine using energy and exergy analysis technique propelled with diesel and KB20 (20% Karanja biodiesel by volume blended with 80% diesel by volume). The experiments were conducted per mole of fuel basis on a 3.5 kW single cylinder; water cooled engine with 1,500 rpm. The energy analysis indicates that about 37.23% and 37.31% of input energy is converted into output work for diesel and KB20 fuel respectively. The combustion efficiency of KB20 was higher than that of diesel by 5.35%. Exergetic efficiency of diesel and KB20 was found to be 34.8%. Study indicates that KB20 biodiesel results coherence with the same energetic and exergetic performance as diesel fuel.

Keywords: compression ignition engine; diesel; efficiency; energy; exergy; Karanja oil methyl ester.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSGGC.2020.109601

International Journal of Smart Grid and Green Communications, 2020 Vol.2 No.1, pp.19 - 37

Received: 04 Dec 2017
Accepted: 03 Oct 2018
Published online: 16 Sep 2020 *

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