Blending Cooking Oil Biodiesel with Petroleum Diesel A Comparative Performance Test on a Variable IC Engine英文文献资料.docVIP

Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, 2011, 2, 165-168 165 doi:10.4236/sgre.2011.22019 Published Online May 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/sgre) Blending Cooking Oil Biodiesel with Petroleum Diesel: A Comparative Performance Test on a Variable IC Engine Clever Ketlogetswe, Jerekias Gandure University of Botswana, Mechanical Engineering Department, Gaborone, Botswana Email: ketloget@mopipi.ub.bw Received February 28 , 2011; Revised April 11 , 2011; accepted April 15 , 2011. th th th ABSTRACT Research in biodiesel production has been motivated by several reasons including consistant increase in prices of pe- troleum diesel, environmental advantages, security of fuel supply, and employment creation. This paper presents a re- view of one alternative technological method that can be used to produce this fuel. Biodiesel from used cooking oil was produced by alkali catalyzed transesterification process. Performance of internal combustion engine using this bio- diesel blended with petroleum diesel in various blending ratios was performed. The engine performance studies were conducted on a variable compression engine test rig with automatic data acquisition set up. Parameters such as brake power, torque and fuel consumption were measured at different loads for pure petroleum diesel, pure biodiesel and different combinations of the dual fuel. The test results indicate that the performance of the engine is comparable for all the fuel mixtures under review. Keywords: Engine Performance, Biodiesel, Blending 1. Introduction ssion performance of IC engine using blends of pure die- sel fuels with bio-diesel produced from sunflower or cot- tonseed oils derived from Greek feedstock. Their overall results indicate that emission of carbon monoxide, par- ticulate matter and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are reduced by