Performance, Emission and Combustion Characteristics of Turpentine Cottonseed Oil Ester Blend

摘要

There has been increase in energy demand as the economic growth and population are growing. As there are limited quantity of fossil fuel, researchers are looking at alternative fuels. Specially biodiesel fuel is the recent important field, in which many people are interested to explore the opportunities, due to its renewable source and lesser emissions than diesel. Over the last decade, there has been plethora of researches happened on vegetable oils (edible or non-edible oil), for instance, Jatropha, cottonseed, neem, olive, turpentine, cashew nutshell oil and sunflower oils from which the biodiesel can be prepared. These biodiesels are easy to produce and are having good fuel properties like cetane index, lesser HC, CO emissions due to its oxygen-rich content. Biodiesel is non-toxic, renewable and biodegradable fuel which can be used in combustion ignition engine in pure form or blended form without any requirement of design change of engine. In recent years, many researchers are concentrating on using vegetable oil fuels with low viscous fuel so that combined viscosity turns to be comparatively near to the diesel. Research work carried out on various biodiesel-ethanol and biodiesel-methanol, cashew nutshell oil-camphor oil, biodiesel-eucalyptus oil blends. Many researchers have done investigation on a duel fuel to eliminate the use of diesel completely and they have found that engine can be run with these biodiesels without any modification of engine.