Alternative Fuel for a Standard Diesel Engine

Abstract

Alternative fuels have been developed for the commercial diesel products Mk1 and EN590. Appropriate additives were selected from a broad range of oxygenates including alcohols, acetals, ethers, esters, and nitrates by a process of systematic elimination. The resulting fuels called Biodiesel 15 meet all existing standards in force for diesel fuel, are stable, and have similar performance characteristics to standard diesel. Significantly Biodiesel 15 is much cleaner than standard diesel with around 30 per cent or more reductions in particulate matter in the exhaust emissions. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are much lower with Biodiesel 15 than with standard diesel products. Other regulated emissions are on a par with Mk1. The fuel consumption of Biodiesel 15 is 2 per cent lower than that of conventional Mk1.

In Situ Biocatalytic Synthesis of Butyl Butyrate in Diesel and Engine Evaluations

“…The effects of BB on the emission of NO x , soot, HC, and CO were similar to other studies on oxygenate blended fuels in heavy‐duty diesel engines with a reduction in soot and CO emissions and a small increase in NO x (Table ).…”

“…Steadily increasing fuel consumption in the road transport sector has been reported to generate close to one fifth of the global CO 2 emissions in 2010 and is hence a serious contributing factor to the changing composition of the atmosphere . Replacing or blending petrochemical fuels with biofuels produced from waste biomass or from native perennials grown on degraded and abandoned agricultural lands may reduce the net emissions of CO 2 and other environmentally harmful components . Among the renewable transportation fuels, biodiesel has become increasingly popular showing a tenfold increase in global production in the last decade .…”

“…Alternative diesel substitutes, which can be made from renewable raw materials, should therefore also be investigated. Various diesel blends containing up to 15 % oxygenates, including ethanol, 1‐butanol, butyl acetate, etc., have been tested in diesel engines and shown to give similar power and torque compared with regular Mk1 diesel . However, low molecular species such as 1‐butanol may result in marked ignition delays in diesel fuels owing to their low cetane numbers .…”

Prospects of 2nd generation biodiesel as a sustainable fuel – Part 2: Properties, performance and emission characteristics

“…Engine power decreases with the increase of content of biodiesel [99,100]. For instance, Carraretto et al [101] observed that the increase of biodiesel percentage in the blends resulted in a slight decrease of both power and torque over the entire speed range for different blends (B20, B30, B50, B70, B80, B100) of biodiesel and diesel on a 6-cylinder direct injection (DI) diesel engine.…”

Infrared Optical Constants and Computational Studies of Neat Liquid -Butylethylether

“…Aliphatic ethers have widespread industrial applications, ranging from solvents [1] and catalysts components [2] to fuel additives [3]. e utilization of n-butylethylether (NBEE) in fuel industry also lead to an increasing interest in the environmental studies of n-butylethylether in the last years [4][5][6].…”