Hydro-treating vegetable oils or animal fats is an alternative process to esterification for the production of biodiesel. Hydro-treated products are also called renewable diesel fuels. Hydro-treated vegetable oils (HVO) do not have the harmful effects of FAME biodiesel such as increased NOₓ emissions, deposit formation, storage stability problems, faster aging of the engine oil or poor cold performance. HVO are straight chain paraffinic hydrocarbons which are free of aromatic hydrocarbons, oxygen and sulphur and have a high cetane number. In the article below, the authors conduct a comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the possibility of running compression-ignition engine on the hydro-treated vegetable oil, which is a second-generation biofuel. On its basis, the information on the assessment of emissions of selected toxic components of exhaust gases and pollutants of the injection system when the engine is powered with this type of fuel, was systematized. The article ends with conclusions from the conducted analyses.
The article presents the results of empirical research and their analysis regarding the impact of diesel oil and diesel oil mixture with bioethanol on coking the test injector nozzles of the XUD9 engine from PSA. The research included three fuel deals: diesel fuel as the base fuel and diesel oil mix with ONE10 bioethanol (10% bioethanol plus diesel oil (V/V)), ONE20 (20% bioethanol plus diesel oil (V/V)). They were conducted on the basis of CEC PF-023 developed by CEC (Coordinating European Council). Each of the above-mentioned fuels was tested using a new set of injectors. The propensity of the fuel for coking the injector tips was expressed as a percentage reduction in the air flow through the nozzles of each injector for the given sheer increments. The test result was the average percentage of airflow reduction for all nozzles at 0.1 mm spike increments and was measured according to ISO 4010 "Diesel engines. Calibrating nozzle, delay pintle type”. The test results for individual atomizers of the above-mentioned test engine in the area of sediment formation from flowing fuel shown a lower tendency to coke the injectors using diesel fuel-bioethanol in comparison to the use of pure diesel oil. Based on the CEC PF-023 test, it can be noticed that the level of contamination of the tested injectors for ONE10 fuel is about 3% lower, and for ONE20 fuel is about 4% lower than the level of pollution for diesel fuel.
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