Performance and Emission Analysis of Diesel Engine Using Various Biofuels

Abstract

Growing awareness for clean fuel has lead to research for new green fuels which do not affect the environment on a large scale and also provide desire properties. Edible and non edible oils have potential to be substitutes for diesel. Bio diesel derived from these oils give good performance and emission characteristics. Oil Like karanja oil, mahua oil, etc have potential to produce bio diesel of ASTM standards. An exhaustive literature review was done in order to find out the results of the research work conducted so far in this area. The performance and emissions of an internal Combustion engine (ICE) engine fuelled with two different bio-diesels (derived from palm oil and coconut oil) are experimentally measured and analysed and compared with that of the petroleum diesel. This study found that the performance parameters of both bio-diesel and their blends are compared with diesel.