Effects of butanol–diesel fuel blends on the performance and emissions of a high-speed DI diesel engine

Rakopoulos, Dimitrios C.; Rakopoulos, C.D.; Giakoumis, Evangelos G.; Dimaratos, Athanasios; Kyritsis, Dimitrios C.

doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2010.02.032

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“…This fact is attributed to lower carbon and higher oxygen content in butanol/diesel blends. Similar trends were also observed by few researchers (Rakopoulos et al, 2010;Doğan, 2011;Chen et al, 2013). Fig.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…They found that smoke density, NO x and carbon mono oxide (CO) emission were reduced with butanol blends while hydrocarbon (HC) emissions increase with butanol blends as compared to neat diesel. Rakopoulos et al (2010) also observed that the brake thermal efficiency increases with butanol blends with slightly lower exhaust gas temperature. Doğan (2011) also investigated the effect of diesel/butanol blends on the performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine and found similar results.…”

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confidence: 59%

“…Rakopoulos et al (2010) experimentally investigated the performance and gaseous emission characteristics of diesel/butanol blends on diesel engine for 8%, 16% and 24% diesel/butanol blends at a constant speed of 2000 rpm and three different load conditions. They found that smoke density, NO x and carbon mono oxide (CO) emission were reduced with butanol blends while hydrocarbon (HC) emissions increase with butanol blends as compared to neat diesel.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several studies investigated the performance, combustion and emission characteristics of diesel/butanol blends in CI engine (Rakopoulos et al, 2010;Doğan, 2011;Imtenan et al, 2015;Şahin and Aksu, 2015). Rakopoulos et al (2010) experimentally investigated the performance and gaseous emission characteristics of diesel/butanol blends on diesel engine for 8%, 16% and 24% diesel/butanol blends at a constant speed of 2000 rpm and three different load conditions.…”

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Effect of Butanol Blends on Nano Particle Emissions from a Stationary Conventional Diesel Engine

Saxena

Maurya

2016

Aerosol Air Qual. Res.

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In this study, combustion characteristics and nano-size soot particle emissions from a stationary conventional diesel engine have been experimentally investigated using butanol/diesel blends. Experiments were conducted on a single cylinder stationary diesel engine at a constant speed of 1500 rpm for neat diesel and butanol/diesel blends (i.e., 10%, 20% and 30% butanol on volume basis) at different engine loads. Piezoelectric pressure transducer installed in the engine combustion chamber was used for measuring cylinder pressure data. In-cylinder pressure data for 2000 consecutive engine cycles was recorded and averaged data was used for the analysis of combustion characteristics. Butanol/diesel blends show higher rate of heat release in comparison to neat diesel and heat release rate increases with butanol percentage in the blend. Opacity meter and exhaust particle sizer were used for analyzing smoke opacity, size and mass distributions of soot particles respectively at different engine operating conditions. Soot particle distribution from 5 nm to 1000 nm was recorded at each test condition. Results show that total particle concentration decreases with an increase in engine operating loads. It was found that butanol/diesel blends have lower total particulate concentration and the surface area.

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Section: Smoke Opacity and Densitysupporting

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Effect of Butanol Blends on Nano Particle Emissions from a Stationary Conventional Diesel Engine

Saxena

Maurya

2016

Aerosol Air Qual. Res.

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“…Ethanol has received a wider application [5][6][7][8], although the latter possesses better qualities than ethanol. Butanol has a number of advantages over ethanol [9] such as a higher cetane number (CN), less hydrophilic; and has a higher miscibility factor in DF than ethanol [10]. Ethanol is unsuitable to use in diesel engines because of its insufficient auto ignition quality [11].…”

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Performance Characteristics of n-Butanol-Diesel Fuel Blend Fired in a Turbo-Charged Compression Ignition Engine

Siwale¹,

Lukács²,

Török³

et al. 2013

JPEE

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In this study, n-butanol-diesel blends were burned in a turbo-charged, direct injection diesel engine where the brake thermal efficiency, (BTE) or brake specific fuel consumption, (BSFC) was compared with that of ethanol-diesel or methanol-diesel blends in another study by other authors. The test blends used were B5, B10 and B20 (where B5 is 5% n-butanol by volume and 95% diesel fuel-DF). In this study, the BTE was higher and the BSFC improved more than in the other study. Because of improved BTE with increasing brake mean effective pressure, BMEP, the BSFC reduced, however the increased shared volume of n-butanol in DF increased BSFC. Adding n-butanol in DF slightly derated the torque, brake power output with increasing speed, and caused a fall in exhaust gas temperatures, (EGT) which improves the volumetric efficiency and reduces compression work. Therefore, a small-shared volume of n-butanol in DF fired in a turbo-charged diesel engine performs better in terms of BTE and BSFC than that of ethanol or methanol blending in DF.

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Fermentative Biobutanol Production: An Old Topic with Remarkable Recent Advances

Wang

Janssen

Blaschek

2014

Bioprocessing of Renewable Resources to Commodity Bioproducts

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Effects of butanol–diesel fuel blends on the performance and emissions of a high-speed DI diesel engine

Cited by 531 publications

References 48 publications

Effect of Butanol Blends on Nano Particle Emissions from a Stationary Conventional Diesel Engine

Effect of Butanol Blends on Nano Particle Emissions from a Stationary Conventional Diesel Engine

Performance Characteristics of n-Butanol-Diesel Fuel Blend Fired in a Turbo-Charged Compression Ignition Engine

Fermentative Biobutanol Production: An Old Topic with Remarkable Recent Advances

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