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Modelling and Simulation of Biodiesel from Various Feedstocks into Compression Ignition Engine

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This article has described how a 4-cylinder compression ignition (C.I.) engine model can be developed using the GT-Suite software interface with known specifications of an existing engine fleet. Fuel properties of various grades of biodiesel were computed and their mean values were fed into the simulated model. The simulation of engine in GT-Power established that biodiesel fuels produced lower amounts of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and Sulphur dioxide emissions as compared to diesel. The Sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions have no significance for all the biofuels. The simulation of the secondary fuel data revealed that highest brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) was shown by castor oil followed by coconut and tallow oil. The highest brake mean effective pressure was achieved during the simulation of performance of CI engine using sun flower oil, tallow oil, waste cooking oil and soy based biodiesels correspondingly. The highest brake thermal efficiency (BTE) values were depicted by soy based biodiesel, sun flower oil, palm oil and safflower oil in descending order.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

    Muhammad Usman Kaisan, Shitu Abubakar, Fatai Olukayode Anafi, Samaila Umaru & Umar Ali Umar

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, V. V. College of Engineering, Tirunelveli, 627657, Tamil Nadu, India

    P. Mohamed Shameer

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia

    Sunny Narayan

  4. Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, 641013, India

    P. Mohamed Nishath & J. Senophiyah Mary

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Kaisan, M.U. et al. (2020). Modelling and Simulation of Biodiesel from Various Feedstocks into Compression Ignition Engine. In: Ghosh, S. (eds) Energy Recovery Processes from Wastes. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9228-4_9

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