Performance, Emission and Combustion Analysis on Single Cylinder CI Engine using Dual Bio-Diesel with and without Hydrogen Induction

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2019 in the subject Engineering - Mechanical Engineering, grade: 10, course: Mechanical Engineering, language: English, abstract: The growing demand and low production of indigenous crude along with inadequate refining capacity has forced India to look for alternative fuels to sustain the economic development. India is one among the largest petro-diesel consuming and importing country i.e. about 70% of its demand. Violently fluctuating world prices of oil have been a destabilizing element for the balance of country's economy and external debt. Centralized power generation are insufficient to encounter energy necessities of decentralized population of rural area, due to low loads, long distribution lines, power shortages, low and fluctuating voltage and low reliability. Decentralized system using renewable sources of energy could go a long way in meeting the energy needs of the decentralized communities. Main source of economy in our country is irrigation. Irrigation has to be developed on a great measure, which requires energy to run various implements. The higher use of petrol/diesel in agronomy and transport sector has resulted in environmental degradation. Alternate fuels are being explored world-wide to reduce environmental pollution. To reduce the reliance on petroleum based fuels, bio-diesels are gaining attention world-wide. In this research work diesel is blended with treble alternate fuels i.e. dual biodiesel and a biofuel, comprising waste cooking oil biodiesel, palm stearin biodiesel and hydrogen, which are tested on single cylinder CI engine for performance, emission and combustion Analysis. Compression ratio and injection opening pressure are varied to get best performance, emission and combustion characteristic. At first dual biodiesel (WCOBD + PSBD) blended in diesel for different proportion will be tested in comparison with diesel as standalone fuel for different compression ratios and fuel injection p