EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF VCR DIESEL ENGINE FUELLED BY N-BUTANOL DIESEL BLEND

Nitin Goyal, Ashish Nayyar, Chandan Kumar

Abstract: Increasing demand of fuel in everyday life and its hazards cause serious problem for this planet. Serious attention is required to see this problem. In this paper there is a research to find out the alternative for diesel fuel and efforts to increase its performance. N-butanol is blended with diesel in different volume (B5 - 5% n-butanol and 95% diesel, B10, B15, B20, B25 and B30) and its effects on various performance parameters are studied. Increasing Butanol concentration in fuel increases BSFC of the engine. Increasing butanol ratio reduces the BTE of the engine from 24% to 22% at maximum load. Exhaust gas temperature reduces with increasing butanol. Mechanical efficiency also increases with addition of n-butanol.

Keywords: N-butanol, BSFC, BTE

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0402060