Production and Analytical Comparison of Atomization Characteristics for Ternary Blends of Biodiesel

Abstract

By the plenty usage of diesel fuel in automobiles, it is necessary to switch over to the alternate fuel such as biodiesel. Generally non edible oils are blended with diesel after the esterification process. But here ternary biodiesel blends with diesel fuel produce almost equal drop size when compared with some binary blends with large quantities of diesel. The ternary biodiesel blends give less amount exhaust emission than the binary blends with diesel. In this work, biodiesel is produced from linseed and rubber seed oil by trans-esterification process and then the fuel atomization characteristics have been determined, The sauter mean diameter of atomization is also computed by analytically. The ternary blends having 90% diesel and 5% linseed biodiesel, 5% rubber seed biodiesel and also 80% diesel, 10% linseed biodiesel and 10% rubber seed biodiesel are observed to give comparatively similar atomization characteristics of diesel.