IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/energy/v141y2017icp839-852.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An experimental study of combustion, performance, exergy and emission characteristics of a CI engine fueled by Diesel-ethanol-biodiesel blends

Author

Listed:
  • Paul, Abhishek
  • Panua, Rajsekhar
  • Debroy, Durbadal

Abstract

The present work is an attempt to conduct a complete analysis of a CI engine subjected to a number of blends of Diesel-ethanol and Pongamia piñata methyl ester (PPME). In this study, the PPME percentage is fixed at 50% and ethanol percentage is increased from 5% to 20% with intervals of 5%, thus reducing the diesel participation. A comprehensive analysis of performance, exergy, combustion and emission characteristics was carried out, which lead to a conclusion that the D35E15B50 blend with 15% ethanol showed best engine performance characteristics with 21.17% increase in brake thermal efficiency and 4.61% decrease in BSEC at full load. The combustion analysis also revealed increase in cylinder pressure and heat release rate indicating improvement in combustion condition for the above-mentioned blend. The D35E15B50 blend also showed a substantial improvement in unburned hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions but it was penalized with a marginal increase in NOx emission. The exergy analysis showed a 25.64% increase in exergetic efficiency and 22.02% decrease in exergy destruction rate and 21.06% decrease in entropy generation rate at full load condition for D35E15B50 blend. The tradeoff study involving BSEC, NOx emission and sustainability index indicated a higher sustainability prospect for the D35E15B50.

Suggested Citation

  • Paul, Abhishek & Panua, Rajsekhar & Debroy, Durbadal, 2017. "An experimental study of combustion, performance, exergy and emission characteristics of a CI engine fueled by Diesel-ethanol-biodiesel blends," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 839-852.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:141:y:2017:i:c:p:839-852
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.09.137
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544217316596
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.energy.2017.09.137?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Gungor, Aysegul & Erbay, Zafer & Hepbasli, Arif, 2011. "Exergetic analysis and evaluation of a new application of gas engine heat pumps (GEHPs) for food drying processes," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 88(3), pages 882-891, March.
    2. Paul, Abhishek & Panua, Raj Sekhar & Debroy, Durbadal & Bose, Probir Kumar, 2015. "An experimental study of the performance, combustion and emission characteristics of a CI engine under dual fuel mode using CNG and oxygenated pilot fuel blends," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 560-573.
    3. Rocco, M.V. & Colombo, E. & Sciubba, E., 2014. "Advances in exergy analysis: a novel assessment of the Extended Exergy Accounting method," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 1405-1420.
    4. Azoumah, Y. & Blin, J. & Daho, T., 2009. "Exergy efficiency applied for the performance optimization of a direct injection compression ignition (CI) engine using biofuels," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 34(6), pages 1494-1500.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Yao, Zhi-Min & Qian, Zuo-Qin & Li, Rong & Hu, Eric, 2019. "Energy efficiency analysis of marine high-powered medium-speed diesel engine base on energy balance and exergy," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 176(C), pages 991-1006.
    2. Guirong Wu & Jun Cong Ge & Nag Jung Choi, 2021. "Effect of Ethanol Additives on Combustion and Emissions of a Diesel Engine Fueled by Palm Oil Biodiesel at Idling Speed," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(5), pages 1-12, March.
    3. Arkadiusz Jamrozik & Wojciech Tutak & Renata Gnatowska & Łukasz Nowak, 2019. "Comparative Analysis of the Combustion Stability of Diesel-Methanol and Diesel-Ethanol in a Dual Fuel Engine," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-17, March.
    4. Krishnamoorthi, M. & Malayalamurthi, R., 2018. "Engine characteristics analysis of chaulmoogra oil blends and corrosion analysis of injector nozzle using scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive spectroscopy," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 165(PB), pages 1292-1319.
    5. Bhowmik, Subrata & Paul, Abhishek & Panua, Rajsekhar & Ghosh, Subrata Kumar, 2020. "Performance, combustion and emission characteristics of a diesel engine fueled with diesel-kerosene-ethanol: A multi-objective optimization study," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 211(C).
    6. Zuo, Lei & Wang, Junfeng & Mei, Deqing & Dai, Shengchao & Adu-Mensah, Derick, 2022. "Experimental investigation on combustion and (regulated and unregulated) emissions performance of a common-rail diesel engine using partially hydrogenated biodiesel-ethanol-diesel ternary blend," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 185(C), pages 1272-1283.
    7. Reyes García-Contreras & Andrés Agudelo & Arántzazu Gómez & Pablo Fernández-Yáñez & Octavio Armas & Ángel Ramos, 2019. "Thermoelectric Energy Recovery in a Light-Duty Diesel Vehicle under Real-World Driving Conditions at Different Altitudes with Diesel, Biodiesel and GTL Fuels," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-18, March.
    8. Zhang, Wei & Chang, Shaoyue & Wu, Wei & Dong, Lihui & Chen, Zhaohui & Chen, Guisheng, 2019. "A diesel/natural gas dual fuel mechanism constructed to reveal combustion and emission characteristics," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 179(C), pages 59-75.
    9. Mukhtar, M.N.A. & Hagos, Ftwi Y. & Noor, M.M. & Mamat, Rizalman & Abdullah, A. Adam & Abd Aziz, Abd Rashid, 2019. "Tri-fuel emulsion with secondary atomization attributes for greener diesel engine – A critical review," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 490-506.
    10. Çeli̇k, Mehmet & Bayindirli, Cihan, 2020. "Enhancement performance and exhaust emissions of rapeseed methyl ester by using n-hexadecane and n-hexane fuel additives," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 202(C).
    11. Navaneetha Krishnan Balakrishnan & Yew Heng Teoh & Heoy Geok How & Thanh Danh Le & Huu Tho Nguyen, 2023. "An Experimental Investigation on the Characteristics of a Compression Ignition Engine Fuelled by Diesel-Palm Biodiesel–Ethanol/Propanol Based Ternary Blends," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(2), pages 1-18, January.
    12. Ghadikolaei, Meisam Ahmadi & Wong, Pak Kin & Cheung, Chun Shun & Ning, Zhi & Yung, Ka-Fu & Zhao, Jing & Gali, Nirmal Kumar & Berenjestanaki, Alireza Valipour, 2021. "Impact of lower and higher alcohols on the physicochemical properties of particulate matter from diesel engines: A review," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 143(C).
    13. Sreekanth Manavalla & Abhishek Chaudhary & Shreyash Hemant Panchal & Saleel Ismail & Feroskhan M & T. M. Yunus Khan & Syed Javed & Mohammed Azam Ali, 2022. "Exergy Analysis of a CI Engine Operating on Ternary Biodiesel Blends," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(19), pages 1-19, September.
    14. Krishnan, M. Gowthama & Rajkumar, Sundararajan, 2022. "Effects of dual fuel combustion on performance, emission and energy-exergy characteristics of diesel engine fuelled with diesel-isobutanol and biodiesel-isobutanol," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 252(C).
    15. Tat, Mustafa Ertunc & Hosgor, Oguzhan, 2023. "Sustainability evaluation of a heavy-duty diesel engine used in railways," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 270(C).
    16. Jain, Akshay & Bora, Bhaskor Jyoti & Kumar, Rakesh & Sharma, Prabhakar & Deka, Hiranya, 2023. "Theoretical potential estimation and multi-objective optimization of Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia Crassipes) biodiesel powered diesel engine at variable injection timings," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 206(C), pages 514-530.
    17. Mendiburu, Andrés Z. & Lauermann, Carlos H. & Hayashi, Thamy C. & Mariños, Diego J. & Rodrigues da Costa, Roberto Berlini & Coronado, Christian J.R. & Roberts, Justo J. & de Carvalho, João A., 2022. "Ethanol as a renewable biofuel: Combustion characteristics and application in engines," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 257(C).
    18. Srikanth, H.V. & G, Sharanappa & Manne, Bhaskar & Kumar, S. Bharath, 2021. "Niger seed oil biodiesel as an emulsifier in diesel-ethanol blends for compression ignition engine," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 163(C), pages 1467-1478.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Fu, Jianqin & Liu, Jingping & Feng, Renhua & Yang, Yanping & Wang, Linjun & Wang, Yong, 2013. "Energy and exergy analysis on gasoline engine based on mapping characteristics experiment," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 102(C), pages 622-630.
    2. Marietta Markiewicz & Łukasz Muślewski, 2019. "The Impact of Powering an Engine with Fuels from Renewable Energy Sources including its Software Modification on a Drive Unit Performance Parameters," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(23), pages 1-16, November.
    3. Alfonso Biondi & Enrico Sciubba, 2021. "Extended Exergy Analysis (EEA) of Italy, 2013–2017," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-21, May.
    4. Pavelka, Michal & Klika, Václav & Vágner, Petr & Maršík, František, 2015. "Generalization of exergy analysis," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 137(C), pages 158-172.
    5. Bazooyar, Bahamin & Hosseini, Seyyed Yaghoob & Moradi Ghoje Begloo, Solat & Shariati, Ahmad & Hashemabadi, Seyed Hassan & Shaahmadi, Fariborz, 2018. "Mixed modified Fe2O3-WO3 as new fuel borne catalyst (FBC) for biodiesel fuel," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 149(C), pages 438-453.
    6. Zhang, Wei & Chang, Shaoyue & Wu, Wei & Dong, Lihui & Chen, Zhaohui & Chen, Guisheng, 2019. "A diesel/natural gas dual fuel mechanism constructed to reveal combustion and emission characteristics," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 179(C), pages 59-75.
    7. Colombo, Emanuela & Rocco, Matteo V. & Toro, Claudia & Sciubba, Enrico, 2015. "An exergy-based approach to the joint economic and environmental impact assessment of possible photovoltaic scenarios: A case study at a regional level in Italy," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 318(C), pages 64-74.
    8. Volkova, Anna & Krupenski, Igor & Ledvanov, Aleksandr & Hlebnikov, Aleksandr & Lepiksaar, Kertu & Latõšov, Eduard & Mašatin, Vladislav, 2020. "Energy cascade connection of a low-temperature district heating network to the return line of a high-temperature district heating network," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 198(C).
    9. Sun, Jingchao & Na, Hongming & Yan, Tianyi & Che, Zichang & Qiu, Ziyang & Yuan, Yuxing & Li, Yingnan & Du, Tao & Song, Yanli & Fang, Xin, 2022. "Cost-benefit assessment of manufacturing system using comprehensive value flow analysis," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 310(C).
    10. Serrenho, André Cabrera & Warr, Benjamin & Sousa, Tânia & Ayres, Robert U. & Domingos, Tiago, 2016. "Structure and dynamics of useful work along the agriculture-industry-services transition: Portugal from 1856 to 2009," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 36(C), pages 1-21.
    11. Bahman Najafi & Sina Faizollahzadeh Ardabili & Amir Mosavi & Shahaboddin Shamshirband & Timon Rabczuk, 2018. "An Intelligent Artificial Neural Network-Response Surface Methodology Method for Accessing the Optimum Biodiesel and Diesel Fuel Blending Conditions in a Diesel Engine from the Viewpoint of Exergy and," Energies, MDPI, vol. 11(4), pages 1-18, April.
    12. Orsi, Francesco & Muratori, Matteo & Rocco, Matteo & Colombo, Emanuela & Rizzoni, Giorgio, 2016. "A multi-dimensional well-to-wheels analysis of passenger vehicles in different regions: Primary energy consumption, CO2 emissions, and economic cost," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 169(C), pages 197-209.
    13. Py, Xavier & Azoumah, Yao & Olives, Régis, 2013. "Concentrated solar power: Current technologies, major innovative issues and applicability to West African countries," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 18(C), pages 306-315.
    14. Hussein A. Mahmood & Nor Mariah. Adam & B. B. Sahari & S. U. Masuri, 2017. "New Design of a CNG-H 2 -AIR Mixer for Internal Combustion Engines: An Experimental and Numerical Study," Energies, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-27, September.
    15. Djouadi, Amel & Bentahar, Fatiha, 2016. "Combustion study of a spark-ignition engine from pressure cycles," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 101(C), pages 211-217.
    16. Liu, Zi-Liang & Zielinska, Magdalena & Yang, Xu-Hai & Yu, Xian-Long & Chen, Chang & Wang, Hui & Wang, Jun & Pan, Zhongli & Xiao, Hong-Wei, 2021. "Moisturizing strategy for enhanced convective drying of mushroom slices," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 172(C), pages 728-739.
    17. Enrico Sciubba, 2014. "A Critical Interpretation and Quantitative Extension of the Sama-Szargut Second Law Rules in an Extended Exergy Perspective," Energies, MDPI, vol. 7(8), pages 1-17, August.
    18. Krzysztof Biernat & Izabela Samson-Bręk & Zdzisław Chłopek & Marlena Owczuk & Anna Matuszewska, 2021. "Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Using Methane Fuels to Supply Internal Combustion Engines," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(11), pages 1-19, June.
    19. Song, Heping & Liu, Changpeng & Li, Yanfei & Wang, Zhi & Chen, Longfei & He, Xin & Wang, Jianxin, 2018. "An exploration of utilizing low-pressure diesel injection for natural gas dual-fuel low-temperature combustion," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 153(C), pages 248-255.
    20. George Stamatellos & Tassos Stamatelos, 2022. "Effect of Actual Recuperators’ Effectiveness on the Attainable Efficiency of Supercritical CO 2 Brayton Cycles for Solar Thermal Power Plants," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(20), pages 1-20, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:141:y:2017:i:c:p:839-852. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.