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Performance Analysis on Mustard Oil Methyl Ester as a Potential Alternative Fuel


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1 Department of mechanical engineering, Jeppiaar Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
2 Department of mechanical engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India
 

Performance analysis of Mustard Oil (MO) methyl ester as a potential alternative fuel is performed in CI engine at various injection timing. Performance analysis such as thermal efficiency, fuel consumption, Exhaust gas temperature and Pressurecrank angle were investigated and compared with diesel (D). Result signified that by advancing the fuel injection by 60 bTDC brake thermal efficiency was found to increase by 4.85% for MO comparing 3.63% increase in diesel. In addition, BSFC is reduced by 3.19% for MO while for diesel it was 12.86%. This experimental study obviously signifies that by advancing the fuel injection, performance aspects of CI engines is enhanced considerably.

Keywords

Brake Thermal Efficiency, Engine Performance, Mustard Oil, Transesterification.
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Authors

D. Yuvarajan
Department of mechanical engineering, Jeppiaar Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
M. Venkata Ramanan
Department of mechanical engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India
D. Christopher Selvam
Department of mechanical engineering, Jeppiaar Institute of Technology, Chennai, India

Abstract


Performance analysis of Mustard Oil (MO) methyl ester as a potential alternative fuel is performed in CI engine at various injection timing. Performance analysis such as thermal efficiency, fuel consumption, Exhaust gas temperature and Pressurecrank angle were investigated and compared with diesel (D). Result signified that by advancing the fuel injection by 60 bTDC brake thermal efficiency was found to increase by 4.85% for MO comparing 3.63% increase in diesel. In addition, BSFC is reduced by 3.19% for MO while for diesel it was 12.86%. This experimental study obviously signifies that by advancing the fuel injection, performance aspects of CI engines is enhanced considerably.

Keywords


Brake Thermal Efficiency, Engine Performance, Mustard Oil, Transesterification.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.17485/ijst%2F2016%2Fv9i37%2F126813