TY - JOUR
TI - Experimental investigation of evaporation rate and emission studies of diesel engine fuelled with blends of used vegetable oil biodiesel and producer gas
AU - Nanjappan Balakrishnan
AU - Goundar Mayilsamy Kavandappa
AU - Natarajan Nedunchezhian
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2015
VL - 19
IS - 6
SP - 1967
EP - 1975
PT - Article
AB - An experimental study to measure the evaporation rates, engine performance  and emission characteristics of used vegetable oil methyl ester and its  blends with producer gas on naturally aspirated vertical single cylinder  water cooled four stroke single cylinder diesel engine is presented. The  thermo-physical properties of all the bio fuel blends have been measured and  presented. Evaporation rates of used vegetable oil methyl ester and its  blends have been measured under slow convective environment of air flowing  with a constant temperature and the values are compared with fossil diesel.  Evaporation constants have been determined by using the droplet regression  rate data. The fossil diesel, biodiesel blends and producer gas have been  utilized in the test engine with different load conditions to evaluate the  performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine and the results are  compared with each other. From these observations, it could be noted that,  smoke and hydrocarbon drastically reduced with biodiesel in the standard  diesel engine without any modifications.