The present study is aimed at studying the energy and environmental performance at various engine loads (BMEP) with identical start of injection (SOI) for all fuel types. The combustion parameters for the fuel mixtures were analyzed using the AVL BOOST software (BURN subroutine). Five different blends were tested, consisting completely of renewable raw materials based on hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) and fatty acid methyl ester (FE100), and the properties of diesel fuel (D) were compared with respect to these blends. The mixtures were mixed in the following proportions: FE25 (FE25HVO75), FE50 (FE50HVO50), FE75 (FE75HVO25). In this study, diesel exhaust was found to produce higher NOx values compared to FE blends, with HVO being the lowest. Hydrocarbon and smoke emissions were also significantly lower for blends than for diesel. Possible explanations are the physical properties and fatty acid composition of fuel mixtures, affecting injection and further combustion. The results showed that blends containing more unsaturated fatty acids release more nitrogen oxides, thus having a lower thermal efficiency compared to HVO. No essential differences in CO emissions between D and HVO were observed. An increase in this indicator was observed at low loads for mixtures with ester. CO2 was reduced in emissions for HVO compared to the aforementioned blends and diesel. The results of the combustion analysis show that with a high content of unsaturated fatty acids, mixtures have a longer combustion time than diesel fuel.
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of the application of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) mixed with pure duck fat (F100) as fuel, replacing the conventional fossil diesel fuel (D100). The tests were performed using a four-stroke direct injection CI engine diesel engine. Six fuel samples were used: D100, HVO100, F100, as well as three HVO–fat mixtures F25, F50, and F75. To further study the main characteristics of fuel combustion, the AVL BOOST software (Burn program) was applied. The results of experimental studies showed that with the addition of pure fat to HVO, the ignition delay phase increased with an increase in the amount of heat released during the premix combustion phase and the pressure and temperature rise in the cylinder increased; however, the mentioned parameters were not higher as compared to diesel fuel. It was found that as the concentration of fat in the HVO–fat mixtures increases, the viscosity and density increases, while LHV was decreased, which thereby increases brake specific fuel consumption and slightly decreases brake thermal efficiency in comparison to diesel fuel. A decrease of CO2, HC, NOx emissions, and smoke was established for all HVO–fat mixtures as compared to diesel fuel at all loads; however; under low loads, CO emissions increased.
Remittances of international labor migrants are of critical importance for poorer countries – both in terms of the longterm survival of households and the adequate functioning of these states in terms of macroeconomic stability, the ability to provide basic state services, and the ability to finance socio-economic development in priority directions for these states and societies. At the same time remittances from international labor migrants are, by their economic essence, primarily a transfer, and not extra resources. That is why this phenomenon should be considered not only in the plane of monetary and fiscal policy of governments, but also in terms of the social policy complex of the labor donor country. This is in line with the significant social role of remittances from international labor migrants – primarily for households and local communities, especially in depressed regions and rural areas. The peculiarities of the use of remittances of international labor migrants are reflected in the structure of their households' expenses in the donor countries. The expenses of this group of economic agents are divided into two large groups: 1. current consumption and 2. savings and investments, which reflect the main components of the GDP of the labor donor country and are key drivers of the socio-economic growth of the state. International labor migrants form informed, based on their own perspective and previous experience, micro-level decisions on the use of remittances earned abroad, based on the short- and long-term needs of their household, as well as the household's future plans in combination with a set of macro-environmental limiting factors in the country of origin. All this in a complex affects the tendency of international labor migrants to the frequency and methods of transferring earned funds to the donor country, the specific areas of use of this transfer by households whose members are employed abroad, as well as the nature of the state policy of labor donor countries, which are aimed at the maximum involvement of this resource in one's own national economy and its adequate use within the framework of stimulating socio-economic development in the short- and long-term time horizons.
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