Feasibility of tea tree oil blended with diethyl ether and diesel as fuel for diesel engine

Prabakaran, Rajendran; Manikandan, G.; Somasundaram, P.; Poongavanam, Ganesh Kumar; Salman, Mohammad; Jegadheesan, C.; Kim, Sung Chul

doi:10.1016/j.csite.2022.101819

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“…Low viscous fuel (LV fuels) can be extracted from LV fuel feedstocks using a variety of techniques. The methods include mechanical extrusion, solvent extraction, steam-distillation, chemical extraction, and pyrolysis, among others; steam-distillation was deemed to be the most advantageous approach economically. − The technique entails the extraction of oil using heat energy. As shown in the figure, LV oil is extracted from LV feedstocks via steam-distillation (Figure ).…”

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Challenges and Opportunities of Low Viscous Biofuel─A Prospective Review

Ramalingam¹,

Vellaiyan

Venkatesan

et al. 2023

ACS Omega

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Under the roof of solid industrialization and accelerated intensification of multiple ranges of mobilization, a huge rise in precious fuel consumption and pollution was observed. Based on the recent hardships of fossil fuels, experts are undoubtedly eager in carrying out their research in renewable environment-friendly fuels. There have been many reviews of works considering the parameters and standards of biodiesel, which is only from various vegetable and seed oils. But very little review work was carried out on only plant-based biofuel. Plant-based fuel has a lower viscosity and higher volatility properties. The target of this review was to make a bridge to overcome these research gaps. This review extensively studies the biological background, production outcome, properties, and reliability of plant-based biofuel and also deeply investigates the feasibility of usage in a diesel engine. From deep investigation it was identified that most of the low viscous fuel had higher brake thermal efficiency (BTE) (2% to 4%) and NOx emission (5% to 10%) than high viscous biodiesel. The formation of hydrocarbon (HC), CO, and smoke emission was similar to high viscous biodiesel. Overall, the low viscous fuel effectively improves the engine behaviors.

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Section: Production and Property Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges and Opportunities of Low Viscous Biofuel─A Prospective Review

Ramalingam¹,

Vellaiyan

Venkatesan

et al. 2023

ACS Omega

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“…In an investigation on DEE (Ibrahim 2018), 5% of DEE in a diesel-biodiesel blend showed improved BTE and BSFC; however, the performance (efficiency and fuel consumption) was affected when the DEE blend increased to 10% owing to the latent heat of vaporization and lower calorific value of DEE. Prabakaran et al (2022) reported that for diesel-biodiesel-DEE blends under all load conditions (0 to 100%), the NOx emissions were increased by 11.6, 16.2 and 18.7% at increased DEE content (5,7.5 and 10% by volume). The increased oxygen content of DEE and biodiesel in ternary blends was the primary reason for NOx formation.…”

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Numerical optimization and experimental investigation of renewable diethyl ether-fueled off-road CI engines for sustainable transportation

Krishnan,

Rajendran,

Pugalendhi

et al. 2024

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Cleaner energy generation on light-duty off-road diesel engines is one of the objectives of this study, which utilizes renewable diethyl ether (DEE) as a replacement for diesel to minimize the reliance on fossil diesel fuel. In an air-cooled single-cylinder diesel engine, various DEE mixes of 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25% were attempted and evaluated under varying loads (0, 25, 50, 75 and 100%) in an effort to enhance the performance and emission characteristics of agriculture diesel engines and lower the environmental effect of harmful emissions. The injection pressure was optimized using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and performance and emission outcomes were optimized through response surface methodology (RSM) techniques. The experimental results found that brake thermal efficiency and specific fuel consumption were enhanced for a higher proportion of DEE blends under increasing loads. In addition, increasing the engine load decreased CO emissions while increasing carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrocarbon (HC), and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. Reduced CO, NOx, and HC emissions and increased CO2 were realized in the blended fuel samples compared to those of pure diesel fuel at increasing DEE percentages. In summary, the utilization of a 15% DEE blend and the optimization of the injection pressure to 210 bar resulted in a notable improvement of 10% in thermal efficiency and a decrease in emissions by 5% when compared to other parameters.

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