As an alternative fuel for diesel engines, the addition of castor oil to ethanol was investigated. The paper describes in detail the influences of amounts of additives, heating of intake air, and increase of the compression ratio on startability and engine performance. Cycle to cycle variation of combustion is also discussed. As a result of the experiment, it was found that smokeless and low NOx diesel combustion could be made at satisfactory thermal efficiency with 40 % castor oil added to ethanol. Besides,the combustion variation was found to be closely related to the ignition lag or its variation, and was greatly reduced with a decrease in ignition lag, particularly at light load and low engine speed.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    A study on diesel engines with alcohol fuels (Engine performance with ethanol-castor oil fuel blends)


    Additional title:

    Eine Untersuchung ueber Dieselmotoren mit Alkoholkraftstoffen (Motorleistung mit Aethanol-Castor-Oel-Gemischen)


    Contributors:
    Murayama, T. (author) / Miyamoto, N. (author) / Yamada, T. (author) / Kawashima, J. (author)

    Published in:

    Bulletin of the JSME ; 26 , 216 ; 1043-1049


    Publication date :

    1983


    Size :

    7 Seiten, 15 Bilder, 7 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




    Experiments with Alcohol/Diesel Fuel Blends in Compression- Ignition Engines

    Moses,C.A. / Ryan,T.W. / Likos,W.E. et al. | Automotive engineering | 1980


    Diesel-Ethanol Fuel Blends for Heavy Duty Diesel Engines - A Study of Performance and Durability

    Hamaguchi, H. / Nakashima, H. / Nishi, H. et al. | SAE Technical Papers | 1982


    Performance of Alcohol Blends in Diesel Engines

    Goering, C. E. / Shirvani, H. / Sorenson, S. C. | SAE Technical Papers | 1981


    Diesel-ethanol fuel blends for heavy duty Diesel engines - a study of performance and durability

    Hashimoto,I. / Nakashima,H. / Komiyama,K et al. | Automotive engineering | 1982


    Diesel-ethanol fuel blends for heavy duty diesel engines - a study of performance and durability

    Hashimoto, I. / Nakashima, H. / Komiyama, K. et al. | Tema Archive | 1982