Publication Date:
2018
Description:
〈p〉Publication date: 1 January 2019〈/p〉
〈p〉〈b〉Source:〈/b〉 Energy, Volume 166〈/p〉
〈p〉Author(s): Upendra Rajak, Prerana Nashine, Tikendra Nath Verma〈/p〉
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〈h5〉Abstract〈/h5〉
〈div〉〈p〉The present work encompasses combustion, performance, and emission parameters of experimental investigations of a single cylinder, four stroke, water cooled, direct injection (DI), naturally aspirated compression ignition (CI) engine with a rated power output of 3.7 kW at constant engine speed (1500 rpm) using diesel and different blends of microalgae 〈em〉spirulina〈/em〉. The microalgae 〈em〉spirulina〈/em〉 blend of ratio with diesel (BYY) where YY indicates blending percentage (0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, and 100% volume basis with diesel respectively) with different engine loading condition (25%, 50%, 75% and 100%) were compared with diesel at CR17.5:1. The output illustrates that the most optimum value is B20% when compared with diesel. The result depicts firstly that there is a reduction in brake thermal efficiency by 0.98%, exhaust gas temperature by 1.7%, hydrocarbon (HC) by 16.3%, carbon monoxide (CO) by 3.6%, NO〈sub〉X〈/sub〉 emission by of 6.8%, and smoke emission by 12.35% respectively. Secondly, there is an increase in specific fuel consumption by up to 5.2% and CO〈sub〉2〈/sub〉 emission by 2.8% for 〈em〉spirulina〈/em〉 blend ratio (B20%) as compared to diesel (B0%) at full load condition engine with constant engine speed.〈/p〉〈/div〉
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Print ISSN:
0360-5442
Electronic ISSN:
1873-6785
Topics:
Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
