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Dual-Fuel (Natural Gas/Biodiesel) Engines: Fundamentals, Performance and Environmental Impact

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Part of the book series: Advanced Structured Materials ((STRUCTMAT,volume 34))

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This chapter briefly focuses on the use of biodiesel and natural gas in dual-fuel diesel engines, providing information about natural gas and biodiesel, and their characteristics, engine performance and exhaust gas emissions. The theoretical and experimental study provides analysis of a commercial compression ignition engine operating in dual mode with three fuels: natural gas, diesel and biodiesel at different load and biodiesel blends. On the basis of the results, the effects of air conditions, and the type and quantity of fuel used over the engine performance and environmental impact are reported, and viability of natural gas and biodiesel as alternative fuels for diesel engines is verified.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to Brazilian research agencies CNPq, CAPES, FINEP and FAPEAL for the financial support, to the CETENE (Brazil) for supplying the biodiesel, to the QUALITEX (Brazil) for provides the analysis of the fuels, to the authors of the references in this paper that helped in our understanding of this complex subject, and to the Editor by the opportunity given to present our research in this book.

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    Fernando José da Silva

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    Antonio Gilson Barbosa de Lima, Yoge Jerônimo Ramos da Costa, Celso Rosendo Bezerra Filho & Marcelo Bezerra Grilo

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da Silva, F.J., de Lima, A.G.B., da Costa, Y.J.R., Filho, C.R.B., Grilo, M.B. (2013). Dual-Fuel (Natural Gas/Biodiesel) Engines: Fundamentals, Performance and Environmental Impact. In: Ferreira, G. (eds) Alternative Energies. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40680-5_3

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