Analyzing and comparing combustion factors and diesel engine performance indicators with alternative biodiesel fuel

Subject Areas : environmental management

Hossein Ghadamian Ghadamian ¹ , Farideh Atabi ² , shahin Ghaheri ³

1 - استادیار دانشکده محیط زیست و انرژی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی تهران
2 - استادیار دانشکده محیط زیست و انرژی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی تهران *(مسئول مکاتبات)
3 - کارشناس ارشد مهندسی انرژی، دانشکده محیط زیست و انرژی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی تهران

Received: 2007-08-14 Accepted : 2008-02-18 Published : 2012-11-21

Keywords: Biodiesel, B20, B100, Combustion factors, Transestrification, Engine performance indicators,

Abstract :

Abstract Vegetable Oils can be combined with alcohol (typically Methanol) to produce chemical combinations so-called Ester. They are also called biodiesel if used as fuel. This fuel is biologically decomposable. In addition, as this kind of fuel is used as component, minor changes in engine is required. Computations on effective combustion factors show that Net Heating Value is 18577 Btu/1b for a combination of 20% biodiesel and 80% diesel (B20), and it is 19159 Btu/1b for diesel fuel. The amounts of Adiabatic Flame Temperature of fuel are also calculated as 3899 ˚F for B20 and 3879 ˚F for diesel fuel. As a result of analyzing effective diesel engine performance indicators for a model of diesel engine, the amount of heat efficiency of biodiesel and diesel fuel, are the same as 41%. It is also calculated that Indicated Power of the engine model is 78.2 kW for diesel fuel and 75.7 kW for bio diesel. Diesel engine Volumetric Efficiency, as the third effective parameter of engine performance, was also introduced, and the amount of results for B20 fuel and diesel fuel were 83% and 80% respectively. The results show minor differences in the amounts of combustion and engine performance factors for both mentioned fuels. Hence, according to environmental requirements and decreasing trend of fossil resources, the renewable bio diesel fuel is spotlighted as one of the essential alternatives for diesel fuel.