OPTIMIZATION OF STATIC INJECTION TIMING OF DIESEL ENGINE FUELLED WITH MAHUA BIODIESEL USING EGR

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Journal for Research| Volume 02| Issue 1 | March 2016 ISSN: 2395-7549

Optimization of Static Injection Timing of Diesel Engine Fuelled with Mahua biodiesel using EGR P. Vetrivel Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Jayam College of Engineering and Tech., Dharmapuri 636 813, Tamil Nadu, India

Dr. K. Sundaramurthy Professor & Head Department of Mechanical Engineering Jayam College of Engineering and Tech., Dharmapuri 636 813, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract The engine performance and emission characteristics of mahua (madhuca indica) biodiesel and its blends with diesel is presented. The thermo-physical properties of all the fuel blends have been measured and presented. The engine tests are conducted on a 4 Stroke Tangentially Vertical (TV) single cylinder kirloskar 1500 rpm water cooled direct injection diesel engine with eddy current dynamometer at different injection timings of 20°, 21°, 22° and 23° bTDC with standard nozzle opening pressure of 220 bar maintained as constant throughout the experiment. From the test results, it is observed that the lower injection timing of 20° bTDC and modified nozzle opening pressure of 220 bars gives better performance and significant reduction in emissions. Keywords: Diesel; Emissions; Mahua biodiesel; Performance; Static Injection Timing _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ I.

INTRODUCTION

In recent years, a growing interest is evinced concerning renewable and alternative fuels. These fuels are bio-degradable and oxygenated and the examples include vegetable oils, their derivatives and their mixtures with diesel. Research on vegetable oils in diesel engine is in progress at least for over 100 years. A brief literature review of research work carried out by various researchers is presented below. Sukumar Puhan et al. 1 investigated significant improvement in engine performance and emission of DI engine with mahua oil methyl ester, mahua oil ethyl ester, mahua oil butyl ester and diesel fuel. Subramanian et al. 2 operated the diesel engine for calibrating the performance and emission characteristics fuelled with diesel-ethanol-pungamia oil methyl ester. They concluded that 10% diesel, 80% of pungamia oil methyl ester and 10% ethanol proportion gives better performance of the diesel engine without any modification in it. Sukumar Puhan et al.3 operated engine tests with mahua oil methyl ester and mahua oil ethyl ester in a direct injection diesel engine. They concluded that mahua oil methyl ester gives better results as compared with ethyl ester of mahua oil. Sukumar Puhan and Nagarajan 4 carry out the direct injection diesel engine tests using methyl ester of mahua oil. They concluded that the mahua oil biodiesel gives lowest NOx as compared with diesel fuel. Puhan et al. 5 tested the diesel engine with mahua biodiesel in naturally aspirated diesel engines. They used neat diesel and neat bio diesel. Emissions are measured and reported that the impact of bio diesel (B100) is lower than that of diesel (B0). Kapilan and Reddy 6 investigated the diesel engine with mahua oil and LPG by changing the injection pressure for the entire operations. They concluded that methyl ester of mahua oil can be used as an alternative fuel in dual fuel engine with pilot fuel of 5 mg per cycle and injection pressure of 200 bar. Raheman and Ghadge 7 used madhuca indica biodiesel blended with fossil diesel and discussed extensively the engine performance obtained by blend with different volumetric ratios. They concluded that B20 gives better performance and lower emissions. Vetrivel and Sundaramurthy8 operaetd the diesel engine with hot EGR fuelled with mahua biodeisel. They concluded that B20 gives better performance and lower emissions. From the previous studies, it is observed that most of the studies were mainly related to the performance emission characteristics of diesel engine using bio diesel as fuel. In this paper an analysis of four stoke Tangentially Vertical single cylinder (TV1) direct injection (DI) with injection timings of 20°, 21°, 22° and 23°bTDC and nozzle opening pressure of 220 bar at full load condition of the diesel engine with eddy current dynamometer using B0, B25, B50, B75 and B100 as fuel is presented. II. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP AND PROCEDURE Experiments have been conducted on a 4 stroke, kirloskar, TV 1 direct injection diesel engine developing power output of 5.2 kW at 1500 rpm connected with water cooled eddy current dynamometer. The schematic of the engine setup is shown in Figure 1. Specifications of the engine are presented in Table 1.

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