Performance and Emission Characteristics of Spark Ignition Engine Fuelled with Ethanol and Methanol Gasoline Blended Fuels

Abstract

Limited non-renewable energy resources, vanishing reserves of fossil fuels, greater gasoline demand, poor availability and uncompromised environmental regulations have forced the researchers to find an alternative fuel to gasoline. Alcohols are gaining attention all over the world as an alternative to gasoline. Hence, effort has put to review the work that has already been done on the study of petrol engine performance and emissions characteristics, tested with gasoline: ethanol and gasoline: isobutanol blended fuels under different operating conditions. Fuel properties of gasoline: ethanol, Gasoline: methanol and gasoline: isobutanol blended fuels were also reviewed and compared with cGravalos, I., Moshou, D., Gialamas, T., Xyradakis, P., Kateris, D., & Tsiropoulos, Z. (2016). Performance and emission characteristics of spark ignition engine fuelled with ethanol, methanol and isobutanol gasoline blended fuels: A review. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology, 7(6), 399–409. https://doi.org/10.5772/23176onventional gasoline and neat ethanol and methanol.