Abstract
Bioenergy and exploitation from waste offer an appealing alternate method for minimizing the severity of environmental risks while compensating for fossil fuel needs. In detail, this research examined the process of transesterifying waste seed oil obtained from the Kabra plant to fuel a common rail direct injection diesel engine. The oxygenated additive dimethyl carbonate was used as an ignition enhancer. The experiments were performed by blending dimethyl carbonate (up to 20%) in the biodiesel blend to analyze the engine outcome parameters in standard operational procedures. The experiment results revealed that the maximum cylinder pressure in pure biodiesel was 1.73% greater than diesel. More dimethyl carbonate in the biodiesel blend produced a 20.54% higher heat release rate than diesel. The brake thermal brake efficiency improved by 17.75% in dimethyl carbonate 20% blend than pure biodiesel at a higher load. The higher proportion of dimethyl carbonate blend increased 4.2% oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions. It decreased 31.5% smoke opacity, 36.36% hydrocarbon (HC) emissions, and 35.6% carbon monoxide (CO) emissions than diesel at maximum load. This research concluded that the smoke opacity, CO emissions, and HC emissions persisted lower for all the test fuels than baseline diesel fuel, with a slight rise in NOx emissions. Further, the TOPSIS optimization technique found that the dimethyl carbonate 20% blend is suitable for diesel engine operation. Hence, the fuel generated from Kabra biodiesel was a feasible diesel substitute in this investigation.
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Abbreviations
- ASTM:
-
American society for testing of materials
- B100:
-
Biodiesel
- B50:
-
Diesel 50% + Biodiesel 50% by volume
- B50 + DMC10:
-
90% By volume biodiesel blend + 10% by volume dimethyl carbonate
- B50 + DMC15:
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85% By volume biodiesel blend + 15% by volume dimethyl carbonate
- B50 + DMC20:
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80% By volume biodiesel blend + 20% by volume dimethyl carbonate
- bTDC:
-
Before Top Dead Centre
- BP:
-
Brake Power
- BSEC:
-
Brake specific energy consumption
- BTE:
-
Brake thermal efficiency
- CO:
-
Carbon monoxide emissions
- CRDI:
-
Common rail direct injection
- CA:
-
Crank angle
- ECU:
-
Electronic control unit
- FTIR:
-
Fourier transform infrared
- FFA:
-
Free fatty acid
- HRR:
-
Heat release rate
- HC:
-
Hydrocarbon
- MGT:
-
Mean gas temperature
- NOx:
-
Oxides of nitrogen
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Duraisamy, P., Subramani, S. & Jayabal, R. Performance and emissions characteristics of a common rail direct injection diesel engine powered by ignition enhancer-biodiesel blends. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 20, 12251–12266 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-023-04891-z
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