EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON PERFORMANCE OF BIODIESEL AND ITS BLENDS IN CI ENGINES

V. PALANISELVAM¹*, S. SRIRAMAJAYAM², D. RAMESH³, A. KAMARAJ⁴, S. KAMARAJ^5
1Department of Agronomy, Agriculture College and Research Institute, Killikulam, 628252, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
²Department of Bioenergy, Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
³Professor, Department of Bioenergy, Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
⁴Agriculture Engineering College and Research Institute, Kumulur, 621712, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
⁵Professor and Head (Retd.), Department of Bioenergy, Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India
* Corresponding Author : vpselvam2002@gmail.com

Received : 05-06-2022     Accepted : 27-06-2022     Published : 30-06-2022
Volume : 14     Issue : 6       Pages : 11415 - 11418
Int J Agr Sci 14.6 (2022):11415-11418

Keywords : Biofuels, Biodiesel, CI engine, Diesel Blend, Engine on biofuel
Academic Editor : Dr Meera Kumari, Dr R. S. Umakanth
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Agronomy; Department of Bioenergy, Agriculture College and Research Institute, Killikulam, 628252, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641003, Tamil Nadu, India and Agriculture Engineering College and Research Institute, Kumulur, 621712, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

Renewable energy projects for generating electricity in the form of solar, wind, hydropower and biofuels like biodiesel, ethanol etc., are the key sources to providing rural energy where power available in short supply. The performance study was carried out with different blending ratio of diesel and biodiesel which is obtained from Jatropha curcus oil. Different blends such as 0,20,50,80, and 100 per cent of various combinations of diesel with biodiesel were used for the experimental evaluation study. The power output of the engine has no significant difference from the various blends of biodiesel, with diesel fuel. The specific fuel consumption of an engine at 0.4 kW, it was 6 percent higher than the diesel fuel and higher loads (2.0 kW) at higher percentage of blends, it is noticed that an increasing trend ranged at an average of 15 percent for all the trials. As the load increases, the fuel flow rate of liquid fuels revealed linearly increased tendency with the load rise from 20 to 100 percent and fuel consumption of biodiesel blend fuel was higher than those of diesel fuel due to the lower heating value of selected biodiesel and its blends. The brake thermal efficiency of the engine was 22 percent with the selective biodiesel and its blend with diesel fuel at higher loads (2.0 kW). The higher brake thermal efficiency was estimated as 23.64 percent for the full load condition. This is the good option for using the blended fuels for running engines in future to reduce emission and global warming

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