Experimental investigation on the performance and emission characteristics of kenaf biodiesel and its blends on single cylinder diesel engine

Abstract

The sources of petroleum fossil fuel will decay in the next few decades and it becomes very costly to produce power from fossil fuel thereafter (K. Arumugam et al 2013). In the present experimental investigation the performance and emission characteristics of the diesel fuel, kenaf biodiesel blended with petroleum diesel in the proportions B25 (25% kenaf biodiesel and 75% diesel) and B50 (50% kenaf biodiesel and 50% diesel), B75 (75% kenaf biodiesel and 25% diesel) and B100 (neat kenaf biodiesel) were determined.