A numerical study on the effect of engine characteristics by using Ethanol-Moringa-Diesel Fuel

Abstract

Environmental contamination has been increasing day by day due to increase in use of fossil fuel, therefore world is moving towards unconventional sources of energy generation. In this study, a diesel engine characteristic was analysed in a single cylinder, four strokes, water cooled, direction injection (DI) diesel engine by using two different fuel blends, one is non-edible oil (Moringa oleifera) and another one is alcohol (Ethanol) and operating at different engine load. Diesel engine characteristics were examined in terms of engine performance, emission and combustion characteristics by using Diesel-RK software and before that validate the numerical result with experimental result. The result shows that MB20 has reduction of 2.26%, 7.37%, 2.6%, 8.3% and 15.02% in BTE, EGT, Smoke emission, MRPR and NOX respectively and increases 8.9% and 12.34% in SFC and CO2 emission. The MBE20 has increased by 2.9% and 18.75% in SFC and CO2 emissions and decrease of 1.25%, 2.45, 5.44%, and 3.06% in BTE, EGT, MRPR and NOX respectively was found as compare to diesel fuel. In this paper, mixing various blends 20% of Moringa Oleifera biodiesel fuel with 20% of ethanol gives optimum blends ratio.