Evaluation of engine performance, emissions, of a twin cylinder diesel engine fuelled with waste plastic oil and diesel blends with a fraction of methanol

  • Authors

    • Y. Tarun BHARATH UNIVERSITY TAMBARAM, CHENNAI, TN-600073 INDIA
    • C. Thamotharan BHARATH UNIVERSITY TAMBARAM, CHENNAI, TN-600073 INDIA
    • K. Mukherjee BHARATH UNIVERSITY TAMBARAM, CHENNAI, TN-600073 INDIA
    2014-04-01
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v3i2.2096

  • Abstract

    A comprehensive study on the methanol and waste plastic oil as an alternative fuel has been carried out. This report deals with the exhaust emission of waste plastic fuel on twin cylinder diesel engine. The objectives of this report are to analyse the fuel consumption and the emission characteristic of a twin cylinder diesel engine that are using waste plastic oil compared to usage of ordinary diesel that are available in the market. This report describes the setups and the procedures for the experiment which is to analyse the emission characteristics and fuel consumption of diesel engine due to usage of the both fuels. Detail studies about the experimental setup and components have been done before the experiment started. Data that are required for the analysis is observed from the experiments. Calculations and analysis have been done after all the required data needed for the thesis is obtained. The experiment used diesel engine with no load which means no load exerted on it. A four stroke Twin cylinder diesel engine was adopted to study the brake thermal efficiency, brake specific energy consumption, mechanical efficiency, brake power, volumetric efficiency, indicated thermal efficiency and emissions at full load with the fuel of fraction methanol in bio-diesel. In this study, the diesel engine was tested using methanol blended with bio-diesel at certain mixing ratios of (WPO: Diesel) 20:80, 40:60 and 60:40 methanol to bio-diesel respectively. By the end of the report, the successful of the project have been started which is Kirloskar engine is able to run with waste plastic oil (WPO) but the engine needs to run by using diesel fuel first, then followed by waste plastic oil and finished with diesel fuel as the last fuel usage before the engine turned off. The performance of the engine using blended fuel compared to the performance of engine with diesel fuel. Experimental results of blended fuel and diesel fuel are also compared.

     

    Keywords: Alternative Fuel, Waste Plastic Oil (WPO), Diesel, Methanol, Performance, Emissions, Pyrolysis.

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    Tarun, Y., Thamotharan, C., & Mukherjee, K. (2014). Evaluation of engine performance, emissions, of a twin cylinder diesel engine fuelled with waste plastic oil and diesel blends with a fraction of methanol. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 3(2), 123-128. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v3i2.2096

    Received date: 2014-02-28

    Accepted date: 2014-03-23

    Published date: 2014-04-01