Synthesis of cracked Mahua oil using coal ash catalyst for diesel engine application |
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| Authors: | N Muthukumaran S Prasanna Raj Yadav C G Saravanan T Sekar |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Mechanical Engineering, Government College of Engineering Dharmapuri, Dharmapuri, Indiamuthukumar_nv@yahoo.co.in;3. Mechanical, Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, India;4. Mechanical Engineering, Annamalai University Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Annamalai Nagar, India;5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thanthai Periyar Government Institute of Technology, Vellore, India |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTIn this work, production of hydrocarbon fuel from Mahua oil has been characterised for diesel engine application, by appraising essential fuel processing parameters. As opposed to traditional trans-esterification process, the reported oil was identified by using heterogeneous catalysts, as the latter improves the fuel properties better than the former. Therefore, interest has been taken in utilising heterogeneous catalyst such as Coal fly ash (CFA) for biofuel production process. From the experimental investigation it was observed that performance results such as BTE for B25 blend show marginally lower value to sole fuel at all loads and NOx emission for B100 blend exhibit significantly lower value than sole fuel. Smoke emission for B25 show the increasing trend that of other blends. However, CO, HC emission for B25 shows the marginal increases when compared to the sole fuel and the combustion analysis of B25 blend showed almost similar trend of sole fuel. |
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| Keywords: | Alternate fuel combustion engine characteristics |
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