Butanol a good replacer for diesel to fuel Compression Ignition Engines
2022-01-0588
03/29/2022
- Event
- Content
- Butanol is a promising fuel to replace or reduce the dependency of diesel for fueling compression ignition engines. This work includes: Manufacturing methods of butanol with their yield, advantages and limitations along with the availability of resources; Utilization of butanol, blends of diesel-butanol, treated waste engine oil-butanol and recycled plastic pyrolysis oil-butanol as fuel for compression ignition engines. The study has three stages: Testing the various proportions of butanol with other fuels for solubility and properties to obtain a suitable fuel blends for fueling compression ignition engines; Testing the suitable blends in a fully instrumented compression ignition engine for performance, combustion and emissions for various load conditions and suggestions for further scope to address the limitations. Results of the solubility and properties test show that the blends containing 20% of butanol along with diesel, 35% of butanol with treated waste engine oil and 25% of butanol with recycled pyrolysis oil are found to be possessing closer properties compared to diesel fuel. Engine test results depict that the cylinder pressure, heat release rate, ignition delay, exhaust gas temperature, thermal efficiency, emissions of oxides of nitrogen and smoke produced by the suitable blends are found to be comparable at high brake power conditions. However, these fuel blends produce a marginal higher emission of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide at low brake power conditions. This study reduces a significant volume of diesel by replacing by butanol and other recycled fuels. Also, this study saves the environment from being polluted by the waste engine oil and waste plastics.
- Citation
- B, P., "Butanol a good replacer for diesel to fuel Compression Ignition Engines," SAE Technical Paper 2022-01-0588, 2022, .