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Biodiesel from Recycled Sunflower and Palm Oil—A Sustainable Fuel for Microturbo-Engines Used in Airside Applications

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  • Grigore Cican

    (Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, 1-7 Polizu Street, 1, 011061 Bucharest, Romania)

  • Daniel Eugeniu Crunteanu

    (Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, 1-7 Polizu Street, 1, 011061 Bucharest, Romania)

  • Radu Mirea

    (National Research and Development and Institute for Gas Turbines COMOTI, 220D Iuliu Maniu, 061126 Bucharest, Romania)

  • Laurentiu Constantin Ceatra

    (National Research and Development and Institute for Gas Turbines COMOTI, 220D Iuliu Maniu, 061126 Bucharest, Romania)

  • Constantin Leventiu

    (Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, 1-7 Polizu Street, 1, 011061 Bucharest, Romania)

Abstract

An experimental assessment of burning behavior of some aviation fuel and biodiesel obtained from waste oil mixture has been performed within this paper. The biodiesel was obtained from sunflower and palm waste oil (SFP) and the mixtures consisted of 10, 30 and 50% biodiesel in regular aviation fuel. The aviation fuel is a mixture of Jet A fuel + 5% Aeroshell 500 oil (called Ke) with the oil being added for turbo-engine’s lubrication. So, the used fuels were: Ke, Ke + 10% SFP, Ke + 30% SFP, Ke + 50% SFP. In first step, SFP was characterized in terms of: density, kinematic viscosity, flash and freezing points and calorific power. Also a deeper analysis was made by using FTIR for all the fuels involved in the experiments. The second step consisted of assessing the chemical reactions that occur during the burning process. Thus starting from the known elemental analysis, the air needed for a stoichiometric reaction has been calculated for each fuel mixtures. Also the resulting CO 2 and water has been calculated from the reactions. The third step consisted of experimental testing the burning behavior of the above mentioned fuels on a micro turbo-engine. The used engine was Jet Cat P80 ® provided by Gunt Hamburg, Barsbüttel, Germany. The variation of: rpm vs. time, burning temperature vs. time and fuel debit vs. rpm are presented for starting and yield procedures. The tests have been conducted at 8 different working regimes of the engine. For each regime, an 1 min testing period was chose, during which burning temperature vs. rpm, fuel debit vs. rpm and thrust force vs. rpm were monitored. For maximum regime, only calculus for burning, thermal efficiencies and specific consumption have been made. As a main conclusion, the engine working behavior was steady throughout the entire range of rpm and for all the blends fed, thus the studied fuel blends may be considered as sustainable fuel for applications that are using micro turbo-engines with main advantages related to pollution and raw materials allowing the production of this type of fuel.

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  • Grigore Cican & Daniel Eugeniu Crunteanu & Radu Mirea & Laurentiu Constantin Ceatra & Constantin Leventiu, 2023. "Biodiesel from Recycled Sunflower and Palm Oil—A Sustainable Fuel for Microturbo-Engines Used in Airside Applications," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-16, January.
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