Performance Characteristics of Sunflower Methyl Esters as Biodiesel

Kaplan, Cafer; Arslan, Ridvan; Sürmen, Ali

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“…Many studies have been conducted on the use of alternative input products such as rape seed and soybean WCOME in the production of biodiesel for use in diesel engines (Altıparmak et al 2007;Felizardo et al 2006;Kaplan et al 2006;Mangesh and Dalai 2006;Nachid et al 2015;Selvan and Nagarajan 2013;Ulusoy et al 2004Ulusoy et al , 2016. The performance and smoke results obtained from an electricity generator engine operating on WCOME showed that the smoke reduction, compared to that of conventional diesel fuel, was around 60% for B100 (100% biodiesel) and around 25% for B20 (20% biodiesel) .…”

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Investigation of performance and emission characteristics of waste cooking oil as biodiesel in a diesel engine

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Biodiesel is one of the most popular prospective alternative fuels and can be obtained from a variety of sources. Waste frying oil is one such source along with the various raw vegetable oils. However, some specific technical treatments are required to improve certain fuel properties such as viscosity and calorific value of the biodiesel being obtained from waste cooking oil methyl ester (WCOME). Various treatments are applied depending on the source and therefore the composition of the cooking oil. This research investigated the performance of WCOME as an alternative biofuel in a four-stroke direct injection diesel engine. An 8-mode test was undertaken with diesel fuel and five WCOME blends. The best compromise blend in terms of performance and emissions was identified. Results showed that energy utilization factors of the blends were similar within the range of the operational parameters (speed, load and WCOME content). Increasing biodiesel content produced slightly more smoke and NOx for a great majority of test points, while the CO and THC emissions were lower.

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Investigation of performance and emission characteristics of waste cooking oil as biodiesel in a diesel engine

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“…There is no universal consensus on the effect of biodiesel on the emission of CO 2 from CI engines. Some authors have reported that when a CI engine runs with biodiesel, the CO 2 emission increases as compared to petrol-diesel [7,27,28]. As it is seen in Table 1, Xue et al [13] have reported that 46% of the researchers have reported that CO 2 emission increases when the engine is running with biodiesel, while 38.5% of the researchers have reported the reverse trend, and 15.4% of the researchers have reported that engines running with diesel and biodiesel have similar emissions.…”

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Emission Characteristics of a CI Engine Running with a Range of Biodiesel Feedstocks

Tesfa

Mishra

et al. 2014

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Currently, alternative fuels are being investigated in detail for application in compression ignition (CI) engines resulting in exciting potential opportunities to increase energy security and reduce gas emissions. Biodiesel is one of the alternative fuels which is renewable and environmentally friendly and can be used in diesel engines with little or no modifications. The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of biodiesel types and biodiesel fraction on the emission characteristics of a CI engine. The experimental work was carried out on a four-cylinder, four-stroke, direct injection (DI) and turbocharged diesel engine by using biodiesel made from waste oil, rapeseed oil, corn oil and comparing them to normal diesel. The fuels used in the analyses are B10, B20, B50, B100 and neat diesel. The engine was operated over a range of engine speeds. Based on the measured parameters, detailed analyses were carried out on major regulated emissions such as NO x , CO, CO 2 , and THC. It has been seen that the biodiesel types (sources) do not result in any significant differences in emissions. The results also clearly indicate that the engine running with biodiesel and blends have higher NO x emission by up to 20%. However, the emissions of the CI engine running on neat biodiesel (B100) were reduced by up to 15%, 40% and 30% for CO, CO 2 and THC emissions respectively, as compared to diesel fuel at various operating conditions.

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“…The NOx emissions from bio-diesel blends of various origins are slightly lower than those of conventional diesel, and the difference is greater for blends with higher percentages of bio-diesel 12 . Other researchers have observed the same behavior for all vegetable oil blends of various origins [13][14][15] . Various studies have shown that biodiesel made from waste cooking oil can be used in different types of diesel engines with no loss of efficiency 16 and significant reductions in PM emissions [17][18][19][20][21] , Co emissions 17,20 and total hydrocarbon (THC) emissions [20][21][22] when compared with emissions from conventional fossil diesel fuel.…”

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Effects of Biodiesel and Engine Load on Some Emission Characteristics of a Direct Injection Diesel Engine

Shirneshan¹,

Almassi²,

Ghobadian³

et al. 2012

Curr World Environ

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In this research, experiments were conducted on a 4-cylinder direct-injection diesel engine using biodiesel as an alternative fuel and their blends to investigate the emission characteristics of the engine under four engine loads (25%, 40%, 65% and 80%) at an engine speed of 1800 rev/min. A test was applied in which an engine was fueled with diesel and four different blends of diesel/ biodiesel (B20, B40, B60 and B80) made from waste frying oil and the results were analyzed. The use of biodiesel resulted in lower emissions of hydrocarbon (HC) and CO and increased emissions of CO 2 and NO x . This study showed that the exhaust emissions of diesel/biodiesel blends were lower than those of the diesel fuels.

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Performance Characteristics of Sunflower Methyl Esters as Biodiesel

Cited by 110 publications

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Investigation of performance and emission characteristics of waste cooking oil as biodiesel in a diesel engine

Investigation of performance and emission characteristics of waste cooking oil as biodiesel in a diesel engine

Emission Characteristics of a CI Engine Running with a Range of Biodiesel Feedstocks

Effects of Biodiesel and Engine Load on Some Emission Characteristics of a Direct Injection Diesel Engine

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