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An experimental study on the performance and emission characteristics of a CI engine fuelled with Jatropha biodiesel and its blends with diesel

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The performance and emission characteristics of a compression ignition engine using mixture of jatropha biodiesel and mineral diesel have been experimentally investigated. It is observed that brake specific fuel consumption increases with higher percentage of biodiesel in the blends. Brake thermal efficiency decreases with the increased percentage of biodiesel in the blends. The maximum efficiency is found to be 29.6% with pure diesel and 21.2% with pure biodiesel. Carbon mono-oxide and hydrocarbon emissions are improved with the addition of biodiesel to diesel. NOx emission is found to be increased with pure biodiesel by 24% compared to mineral diesel.

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    Ambarish Datta, Samiddha Palit & Bijan Kumar Mandal

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Ambarish Datta obtained his bachelor degree in Automobile Engineering 2008 and Master of Automobile Engineering from Jadavpur University, in 2010. Presently he is a Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, BESU, Shibpur, India.

Samiddha Palit completed his Masters of Mechanical Engineering from Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, India. Presently, he is working as an assistant engineer under Govt. of West Bengal. He is also pursuing research work at BESU, Shibpur.

Bijan Kumar Mandal got his B.Tech (Hons.) and M. Tech. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the IIT, Kharagpur and Ph.D. from Jadavpur University. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at BESU, Shibpur. His areas of interest includes alternative fuels and combustion.

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Datta, A., Palit, S. & Mandal, B.K. An experimental study on the performance and emission characteristics of a CI engine fuelled with Jatropha biodiesel and its blends with diesel. J Mech Sci Technol 28, 1961–1966 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-014-0344-7

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