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Experimental Investigation of Rubber Seed Oil as Biodiesel on C.I. Engine


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1 School of Mechanical Engineering, R.G.M.C.E.T., Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India
2 School of Mechanical engineering, R.G.M.C.E.T., Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India
 

The depleting fossil fuel resources, increases the price of fuel continuously. At one point of time the whole resources may come to end. Keeping this in view many researchers identified various alternative fuels and tested successfully. In the present investigation the performance and emission characteristics of single cylinder four stroke direct injection diesel engine using rubber seed oil(RSO) as an alternate fuel is evaluated. Here rubber seed oil is used in the form of blends at various proportions with diesel. High viscosity is one important difference between rubber seed oil and commercial diesel fuel. Bio-diesel is prepared from rubber seed oil using double Transesterification process. A single cylinder, four stroke, constant speed, water cooled, direct injection diesel engine is used for the experiment. The performance of the engine is measured using rope brake dynamometer and the emissions such as CO ,CO2, HC&Nox is measured using exhaust gas analyzer. The experimental data for various parameters such as thermal efficiency, brake specific fuel consumptions (BSFC) are analyzed. Acceptable thermal efficiencies of the engine were obtained with blends containing upto B30 of rubber seed oil biodiesel blend.

Keywords

Alternative Fuel, Biodiesel, Rubber Seed Oil, Engine Performance.
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Authors

B. Dinesh Babu
School of Mechanical Engineering, R.G.M.C.E.T., Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India
R. Vidya Sagar Raju
School of Mechanical Engineering, R.G.M.C.E.T., Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India
K. Thirupathi Reddy
School of Mechanical engineering, R.G.M.C.E.T., Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India

Abstract


The depleting fossil fuel resources, increases the price of fuel continuously. At one point of time the whole resources may come to end. Keeping this in view many researchers identified various alternative fuels and tested successfully. In the present investigation the performance and emission characteristics of single cylinder four stroke direct injection diesel engine using rubber seed oil(RSO) as an alternate fuel is evaluated. Here rubber seed oil is used in the form of blends at various proportions with diesel. High viscosity is one important difference between rubber seed oil and commercial diesel fuel. Bio-diesel is prepared from rubber seed oil using double Transesterification process. A single cylinder, four stroke, constant speed, water cooled, direct injection diesel engine is used for the experiment. The performance of the engine is measured using rope brake dynamometer and the emissions such as CO ,CO2, HC&Nox is measured using exhaust gas analyzer. The experimental data for various parameters such as thermal efficiency, brake specific fuel consumptions (BSFC) are analyzed. Acceptable thermal efficiencies of the engine were obtained with blends containing upto B30 of rubber seed oil biodiesel blend.

Keywords


Alternative Fuel, Biodiesel, Rubber Seed Oil, Engine Performance.