scholarly journals ANN Modeling For Forecasting of VCR Engine Performance And Emission Parameters Fuelled With Green Diesel Extracted From Waste Biomass Resources

Author(s):  
Rajayokkiam Manimaran ◽  
Thangavel Mohanraj ◽  
Moorthy Venkatesan

Abstract In this research work, the experimental tests were conducted on a single-cylinder, constant speed, variable compression ratio (VCR) engine fuelled with green diesel extracted from waste trichosanthes cucumerina seeds. The engine test blends are prepared with different trichosanthes cucumerina biodiesel (TCB) proportions of 30%, 50% and 70% in diesel fuel, and their thermo-physical properties were assessed as per the ASTM standards. At full load condition, the TCB30 blend operated at the CR 18:1 gives better engine performance and reduced emission levels of HC by 13.51%, CO by 10.82% and smoke opacity by 16.87%, equated with neat diesel fuel. With the support of experimental results, the performance (BTE, BSFC and EGT) and emission parameters (HC, CO, NOx, smoke opacity and CO2) are predicted using multiple regression artificial neural network (ANN) model. This trained ANN model results in an average correlation coefficient (R2) value is 0.9967, which is closer to 1. It indicates that the proposed ANN model can generate the exact correlation between input factors and output responses.

2018 ◽  
Vol 225 ◽  
pp. 04022
Author(s):  
Zainal Ambri Abdul Karim ◽  
Mohammed Yahaya Khan

Water in diesel emulsion when used as fuel in diesel engine has shown simultaneous reduction in both nitrogen oxides and particulate matters. However, when water in bio-diesel emulsion is used, the effect of simultaneous reduction of nitrogen oxides and particulate reduction is not achieved. The current study aims at investigating the diesel engine performance and exhaust emissions using water in bio-diesel fuel prepared by a homogenizer that produced micro-water particles in the emulsion. A 1.8L indirect injection diesel engine was operated using bio-diesel fuel which contains 95% diesel and 5% palm oil methyl ester, mixed with 5%, 10% and 20% by volume of water. Engine testing was conducted at full load condition with the engine speeds ranges from 1000 to 4000 rpm. Torque, engine speed and fuel consumption were measured along with emissions of NOx, CO, CO2, HC, O2. The results showed small reduction in brake power, 1.4% and 2.1% for WBDE-5 and WBDE-10 respectively, at maximum torque. While, reduction in exhaust gas temperature, CO2 and smoke opacity for all the tested emulsions were exhibited. On the other hand, NOx was found to increase with increase in water contents due to the higher oxygen content in the bio-diesel fuel. WBDE-20 showed the worst efficacy due to having water content of 20% by volume.


2014 ◽  
Vol 984-985 ◽  
pp. 839-844
Author(s):  
Natesan Kanthavelkumaran ◽  
P. Seenikannan

In present scenario researchers focusing the alternate sources of petroleum products. Based on this, current research work focused the emission study of its characteristics and potential as a substitute for Diesel fuel in CI engines. Current research biodiesel is produced by base catalyzed transesterification of rice bran oil is known as Rice Bran Oil Methyl Ester (Biofuel). In this research various proportions of Biofuel and Diesel are prepared on volume basis. It is used as fuels in a four stroke single cylinder direct injection Diesel engine to study the performance and emission characteristics of these fuels. Varieties of results obtained, that shows around 50% reduction in smoke, 33% reduction in HC and 38% reduction in CO emissions. In result discussion a different blends of the brake power and BTE are reduced nearly 2 to 3% and 3 to 4% respectively around 5% increase in the SFC. Therefore it is accomplished from the this experimental work that the blends of Biofuel and Diesel fuel can successfully be used in Diesel engines as an alternative fuel without any modification in the engine. It is also environment friendly blended fuel by the various emission standards.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Nurun Nabi ◽  
Md. Wahid Chowdhury

This research work investigates diesel combustion and exhaust emissions with additives addition to conventional diesel fuel in a four-stroke naturally aspirated direct injection (DI) diesel engine. The additives include DGM, and liquid cerium. The results show that with the addition of DGM to diesel fuel, brake specific energy consumption (BSEC) and all diesel emissions are significantly reduced. The volumetric blending ratios of additives to diesel fuel are 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100%. All emissions including smoke emissions decrease with the increase in oxygen content in the fuel and it is noted that smoke emission completely disappeared at an oxygen content of 36 wt–%. The reason for improvement in BSEC with the addition of additives to base diesel fuel is the improvement of degree of constant volume combustion, and the reduction of the cooling loss. Engine noise and odor concentrations are remarkably reduced with diesel-additive blends. Significant improvement in BSEC and exhaust emissions is not only found at medium load condition but also at high load condition. Key words: Diesel engine, DGM, emissions, BSEC, and cooling loss


An experimental investigation was accomplished for the effect of SiO2 nanoparticles (SNP) addition on performance and emissions features of a four-stroke single cylinder variable compression ratio diesel engine. The SNP were mixed with pure diesel in a dosage of 5mg, 10mg, 15mg, 20mg, and 25mg. These test fuels were tested at various engine loads of 2kW, 4kW, 6kW, 8kW, 10kW and 12kW at a speed of 1500 rpm with 18 C.R. The results shows that the maximum enhancement in brake thermal efficiency (BTE) achieved was 15.16% and minimum reduction of 14.28% in brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) was noticed when correlated to neat diesel fuel at full load condition. The emissions of NOX, CO, HC, and smoke opacity (PM) for 20Si600DF (20 mg SNP+20mg CTAB+600 ml diesel) test fuel were significantly decreased by 77.13%, 82.14%, 93.94%, and 33.41% as compared to pure diesel fuel at full load condition. The results reported that 20Si600DF at 18 CR value shows the optimal improvement in performance with minimum emissions. Finally, it can be concluded that SiO2 nanoparticles act as a promising additive which can be added in diesel fuel in order to reduce emissions and enhance performance parameters without any engine modifications


This research work investigated the diesel engine performance using 20% Pongamia grease methyl ester through the effect of different flow rates of acetylene using dual-fuel technique. Acetylene be inducted within the intake various at the flow rates of 1lpm, 2lpm, 3lpm and 4lpm along with air. Initially a test was conducted by diesel fuel along with POME20 on different loads. Then the experiment was carried out with POME20 with different flow rates of acetylene. Addition of acetylene increased the brake thermal efficiency (BTE) among POME20 at all acetylene flow rates on 100% load. The results showed that the BTE was enhanced via regarding 1–3.4% at knock-limited acetylene shares at 100% load. The engine emits higher NOx emission for POME20 without acetylene share and then it is additional improved with the adding up of acetylene shares, while the smoke opacity was reduced by 47% with acetylene addition at complete load. Here is a decrease in HC as well as CO emissions were experiential through an acetylene orientation along with POME20. Finally, it is suggested that the poor presentation as well as emissions connected through biodiesel into a diesel engine can be improved through the induction of acetylene with 4lpm flow rate in the intake various by dual fuel technology.


Transport ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 440-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Mickevičius ◽  
Stasys Slavinskas ◽  
Slawomir Wierzbicki ◽  
Kamil Duda

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the diesel engine performance and emission characteristics, when operating on diesel fuel and various diesel-biodiesel (B10, B20, B40, B60) blends, at various loads and engine speeds. The experimental tests were performed on a four-stroke, four-cylinder, direct injection, naturally aspirated, 60 kW diesel engine D-243. The in-cylinder pressure data was analysed to determine the ignition delay, the Heat Release Rate (HRR), maximum in-cylinder pressure and maximum pressure gradients. The influence of diesel-biodiesel blends on the Brake Specific Fuel Consumption (bsfc) and exhaust emissions was also investigated. The bench test results showed that when the engine running on blends B60 at full engine load and rated speed, the autoignition delay was 13.5% longer, in comparison with mineral diesel. Maximum cylinder pressure decreased about 1–2% when the amount of Rapeseed Methyl Ester (RME) expanded in the diesel fuel when operating at full load and 1400 min–1 speed. At rated mode, the minimum bsfc increased, when operating on biofuel blends compared to mineral diesel. The maximum brake thermal efficiency sustained at the levels from 0.3% to 6.5% lower in comparison with mineral diesel operating at full (100%) load. When the engine was running at maximum torque mode using diesel – RME fuel blends B10, B20, B40 and B60 the total emissions of nitrogen oxides decreased. At full and moderate load, the emission of carbon monoxide significantly raised as the amount of RME in fuel increased.


2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan Yamik

Biodiesel is an alternative fuel for diesel engines which doesn?t contain pollutants and sulfur; on the contrary it contains oxygen. In addition, both physical and chemical properties of sunflower oil methyl ester (SME) are identical to diesel fuel. Conversely, diesel and biodiesel fuels are widely used with some additives to reduce viscosity, increase the amount of cetane, and improve combustion efficiency. This study uses diesel fuel, SME and its mixture with aviation fuel JetA-1 which are widely used in the aviation industry. . Fuel mixtures were used in 1-cylinder, 4-stroke diesel engine under full load and variable engine speeds. In this experiment, engine performance and emission level are investigated. As a conclusion, as the JetA-1 ratio increases in the mixture, lower nitrogen oxide (NOx) emission is measured. Also, specific fuel consumption is lowered.


Author(s):  
M Canakci

Biodiesel is an alternative diesel fuel that can be produced from renewable feedstocks such as vegetable oils, waste frying oils, and animal fats. It is an oxygenated, non-toxic, sulphur-free, biodegradable, and renewable fuel. Many engine manufacturers have included this fuel in their warranties since it can be used in diesel engines without significant modification. However, the fuel properties such as cetane number, heat of combustion, specific gravity, and kinematic viscosity affect the combustion, engine performance and emission characteristics. In this study, the engine performance and emissions characteristics of two different petroleum diesel fuels (No. 1 and No. 2 diesel fuels) and biodiesel from soybean oil and its 20 per cent blends with No. 2 diesel fuel were compared. The results showed that the engine performance of the neat biodiesel and its blend was similar to that of No. 2 diesel fuel with nearly the same brake fuel conversion efficiency, and slightly higher fuel consumption. CO2 emission for the biodiesel was slightly higher than for the No. 2 diesel fuel. Compared with diesel fuels, biodiesel produced lower exhaust emissions, except NO x.


Author(s):  
H. Sharon ◽  
Joel Jackson R. ◽  
Prabha C.

Feed stock cost and NOX emission are the major barriers for commercialization of biodiesel. Waste cooking oil is well identified as one of the cheapest feed stocks for biodiesel production. This chapter reduces NOX emission of waste cooking oil biodiesel. Test fuel blends are prepared by mixing diesel (20 to 50 v/v%), butanol (5 v/v%), and waste cooking oil biodiesel (45 to 75 v/v%). Fuel properties of waste cooking oil biodiesel are enhanced due to addition of diesel and butanol. Brake specific energy consumption of the blends is higher than diesel fuel. Harmful emissions like carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, and smoke opacity are lower for blends than diesel fuel. Increasing biodiesel concentration in blend also reduces hydrocarbon emission to a significant extent. The obtained results justify the suitability of proposed cheap blends for diesel engine emission reduction.


Author(s):  
Praveen Kandulapati ◽  
Chuen-Sen Lin ◽  
Dennis Witmer ◽  
Thomas Johnson ◽  
Jack Schmid ◽  
...  

Synthetic fuels produced from non-petroleum based feedstocks can effectively replace the depleting petroleum based conventional fuels while significantly reducing the emissions. The zero sulfur content and the near zero percentage of aromatics in the synthetic fuels make them promising clean fuels to meet the upcoming emissions regulations. However due to their significantly different properties when compared to the conventional fuels; the existing engines must be tested extensively to study their performance with the new fuels. This paper reports a detailed in-cylinder pressure measurement based study made on adaptability of the engine control module (ECM) of a modern heavy duty diesel engine to optimize the engine performance with the F-T diesel fuel. During this study, the F-T and Conventional diesel fuels were tested at different loads and various injection timing changes made with respect to the manufacturer setting. Results from these tests showed that the ECM used significantly different injection timings for the two fuels in the process of optimizing the engine performance. For the same power output the ECM used a 2° advance in the injection timing with respect to the manufacturer setting at the full load and 1° retard at the no load condition. While the injection timings used by the ECM were same for both the fuels at the 50% load condition. However, a necessity for further changes in the control strategies used by the ECM were observed to get the expected advantages with the F-T fuels.


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