Investigation of rice bran oil biodiesel as fuel in a compression ignition engine

Author

Arunkumar, G. ; Santhoshkumar, A. ; Dhanesh, C. ; Vivek, M. ; Arunkumar, G. ; Anantha Raman, L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Travancore Eng. Coll., Kollam, India

fYear

2013

fDate

10-12 April 2013

Firstpage

326

Lastpage

328

Abstract

This study presents the effect of rice bran oil methyl ester (biodiesel) as fuel in a single cylinder, direct injection water cooled diesel engine. The performance was measured using electrical dynamometer. The brake thermal efficiency, specific energy consumption, exhaust gas temperature, smoke emission and cylinder pressure of biodiesel were measured and compared with diesel. The results prove that the rice bran oil biodiesel can be used directly in compression engine without any modification in the engine.

Keywords

biofuel; dynamometers; energy consumption; engine cylinders; ignition; internal combustion engines; smoke; vegetable oils; brake thermal efficiency; compression ignition engine; cylinder pressure; direct injection water cooled diesel engine; electrical dynamometer; energy consumption; exhaust gas temperature; fuel; rice bran oil biodiesel; rice bran oil methyl ester effect; smoke emission; Biofuels; Diesel engines; Educational institutions; Energy consumption; Production; biodiesel; diesel; engine; rice bran oil;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Efficient Technologies for Sustainability (ICEETS), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nagercoil

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6149-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEETS.2013.6533403

Filename

6533403