Vol. 5 No. 1 (2021)
Articles

Experimental Investigation on the Performance of an Engine Operated with Multi Fuel Blends of Biodiesels Made by Animal Fat & Mahua Oil, Ethanol & Diesel

Published 2022-04-22

Keywords

  • Animal fats oil, Blends, Ethanol, Mahua oil, Ttransesterification

Abstract

Biodiesel refers to a vegetable oil- or animal fat-based diesel fuel consisting of long-chain alkyl (methyl or ethyl) esters. Biodiesel is typically made by chemically reacting lipids (e.g. vegetable oil, animal fat) with an alcohol producing fatty acid esters. In this paper, biodiesel which is defined as a fuel comprised of mono-alkyl esters of long-chain fatty acids, has produced from animal fat oil/mahua oil by transesterification process and its different properties are studies and compared with the properties of diesel and ethanol. Blends of biodiesels, ethanol and diesel are made on the percentage of volume basis. In these blends, biodiesel used 5-25%, ethanol 10% and remaining was the percentage of diesel. After the experimentation on the specified diesel engine with prepared blends, EGT, BSFC and BTE for each of the fuel blends are calculated at different loads and compared with diesel fuel. The study further investigates the smoke emission at different load for all the prepared blends of biodiesel, ethanol and diesel.