Performance and Emission Characteristics of Combined Biodiesel Blend of Non-Edible Oil in Diesel Engine

Abstract

Nowadays every country is facing energy crisis. Continuous extraction of crude oil resulting in depletion of fossil fuels reserves. It is motivating researchers to develop alternative source of enrgy.Biodiesel is promising alternative for petro-diesel. Lot of work has been done on single biodiesel blend of edible and non-edible source of energy. Very few works has been found on dual biodiesel blend. In the present study, combined blend of second-generation fuel (Jathropha and Karanja) was studied on single cylinder four-stroke multi fuel diesel engine test rig. Performance and emission analysis has been examined at different load and constant speed (1500 rpm). Result showed that break thermal efficiency of diesel is higher than all blends of biodiesel. Break specific fuel consumption of combined blend (JK15KB15) was significantly higher than diesel and marginally lower than single blend of Jathropha (JB30) or Karanja (KB30). Combined blend of JB15KB15 showed lower HC, CO emission but higher NOx emission than diesel. Moreover JK15KB15 showed better emission characteristics than single biodiesel blend with diesel.