Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles - Nitrogen oxide emission in biodiesel fuelled CI engines — A review

Abstract

Biodiesel as an augmenting fuel to petroleum diesel has advantages like lower CO, lower CO 2 , decreased particulate matter emission and lower UBHC and few disadvantages like poorer cold flow characteristics, lower heating values, and mostly reported higher emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx = NO + NO 2 , where NO is nitric oxide and NO 2 is nitrogen dioxide). Emission of oxides of nitrogen is the focus of this review article. Formation of NOx is a complex process and gets affected by several parameters like injection timing, adiabatic flame temperature, radiation heat transfer, and ignition delay. This article provides a review of the rich literature describing these parameters, and provides additional insight into the system responses that are manifested by the use of biodiesel.156 978-1-4244-9082-0/10/$26.00 ©2010 IEEE