Review on Effect of Karanja Oil With Additives As Alternative Fuels in Diesel Engine

  M.Goudilyan ,  M.K.Murthi

Biodiesel offers a very hopeful alternative fuel to diesel which is defined as methyl ester fatty acid from vegetable oils or animal fats. The present paper investigates the performance and emission characteristic of diesel engine running with karanja oil. The objective of the paper is to reduce higher viscosity of karanja oil by transesterification and to assess the emission and performance characteristics of diesel engine. The various proportions of biodiesel blended with diesel are B10, B20, B30 with methanol and diethyl ether as additives at varying load conditions at constant speed. Parameters such as brake specific fuel consumption, brake thermal efficiency, hydrocarbon emission, smoke, carbon monoxide emission are to be evaluated. Then, the results of biodiesel are compared with the diesel. CO, HC and exhaust smoke emissions reduce with increase in proportions of biodiesel blends. From the investigation it can be concluded that biodiesel can be used as an alternative to diesel in a diesel engine without any engine modifications.

Keywords- Biodiesel, Karanja oil, Transesterification, Performance, Emissions

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1504165
Page Number(s) - 939-943
Pubished in - Volume 3 | Issue 4 | December 2015
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  M.Goudilyan ,  M.K.Murthi ,   "Review on Effect of Karanja Oil With Additives As Alternative Fuels in Diesel Engine", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.3, Issue 4, pp.939-943, December 2015, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1504165.pdf