Experimental Study of Brake Power on Emission for Different Blending Ratio of Neem Biodiesel in Dual Cylinder Diesel Engine

  Hiren Shah,  Bhupendra patil,  Anil Patel

Non-edible filtered neem oil based mono esters (biodiesel) produced and blended with diesel were tested for their use as substitute fuels of diesel engines in terms of emission. The major objective of the present investigation is to experimentally access the emission performance of biodiesel and find the optimum blending ratio in a dual cylinder diesel engine used in generating sets and the agricultural applications in India. Diesel; neat biodiesel from neem and their blends (10, 20 and 30 percentage by volume) were used for conducting tests at varying loads. It is observed that thirty percentage neem with diesel blend gives the better emission test (in terms of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbon, smoke density) than other blend ratios of neem biodiesel. The higher fuel consumption of neem biodiesel is due to higher flash point and viscosity than petroleum diesel. The higher the flash point of the biodiesel, the better atomization process will be performed. Thirty percentage blends of bio-diesel (bio-diesel produced from non- edible sources like neem) have been found to comply with all specification of diesel fuel. The cetane number, flash point and lubricity of the blended fuel are observed to be better than commercial diesel fuel.

Keywords- Neem Biodiesel, Transesterification, Emission Test

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1401113
Page Number(s) - 627-630
Pubished in - Volume 2 | Issue 1 | March 2014
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Hiren Shah,  Bhupendra patil,  Anil Patel,   "Experimental Study of Brake Power on Emission for Different Blending Ratio of Neem Biodiesel in Dual Cylinder Diesel Engine", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.2, Issue 1, pp.627-630, March 2014, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1401113.pdf