EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF A DIESEL ENGINE USING SOYABEAN OIL AND DIESEL BLENDS

N.A. Ansari, Jitendra Kumar, Amit Kumar, Dhananjay Trivedi

Abstract: Diesel engines have been playing a vital role in the transportation and power generation sectors since from its invention. Despite of having better efficiency with diesel engine, the main concern is on emission of pollutants. There are various methods to reduce pollutant emission from a diesel engine. The prominent way to reduce pollutants is the usages of bio fuels with some modifications in the diesel engine. Diesel engine simulation models can be used to understand the combustion performance, prediction of emission concentration. These models can reduce the number of experiments. In this study, the performance and emissions characteristics of single cylinder, four stroke, and direct injection diesel engine operating on diesel and soybean blends have been investigated theoretically. The variations of various species concentration like CO2,CO and NOx with equivalence ratio have been analysed using diesel engine simulation models. These models can reduce the number of experiments. Computer simulation has contributed enormously towards new evaluation in the field of internal combustion engines. Mathematical tools have become very popular in recent years owing to the continuously increasing improvement in computational power

Keywords: Emissions, Bio fuels, Simulation Models

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0205011