• Experimental Investigation on Performance and Emission characteristics of DI Diesel Engine using Canola oil as Bio-diesel fuel
• Author  :  M.Sri Rama Murthy and A.V.S.S.K.S.Gupta
• Pages   :  9-15, DOI: https://doi.org/10.14741/ijtt/v.9.1.3
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• Abstract

Experiments are carried out to study performance and emission characteristics of a diesel engine fuelled with diesel fuel, a Canola Biodiesel and its blends 10% by volume(BD10),20%(BD20),30%(BD30),40%(BD40),50%(BD50) and 100%(BD100).Tests have been conducted on four stroke, single cylinder, vertical, water cooled, cold start, compression ignition high speed diesel engine with different loading conditions at a constant speed of 1500 rpm. The results are presented in the form of Brake specific fuel consumption, mechanical efficiency, brake thermal efficiency and emission characteristics of CO, CO2, UHC and NOx. From the results it is observed that BD10, BD20, BD100 biodiesel blends given better Brake specific fuel consumption, mechanical efficiency, brake thermal efficiency than pure diesel. HC, CO, CO2 emissions are lower for BD10 and BD20 blends and NOxemissions are lower for BD100 except at 20% load. Also HC, CO2, NOxemissions are lower for pure biodiesel (BD100) compared to pure diesel and a reverse behavior is observed with respect to CO emissions. The results revealed that the Canola biodiesel showed comparable performance and can be a good replacement to diesel fuel.

Keywords: Biodiesel, Canola oil, Blending, DI diesel engine, Performance, Emissions.