Evaluation of Performance and Emission Characteristics of Turmuric Leaves Based Fuel on 4 Stroke SI Engine

Author

Meshram, Sachin I. ; Deshmukh, M.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Heat Power Eng., G.H. Raisoni Coll. of Eng., Nagpur, India

fYear

2010

fDate

19-21 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

680

Lastpage

685

Abstract

This paper describes an experimental study concerning the feasibility of using bio-oil namely turmeric leaves based oil obtained from the resin of turmeric plants. The emission and performance characteristics of a 4-stroke spark ignited engine were studied by using gasoline and turmeric leaves oil. The performance and emission parameters of both the fuels were evaluated and compared. The performance parameters investigated were torque, brake mean effective pressure (BMEP), brake power, specific fuel consumption (SFC), and thermal efficiency. Carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO₂), hydrocarbons (HC) and oxides of nitrogen (NOX) exhaust emissions levels are also presented. The results showed that torque and BMEP were slightly lower when the turmeric leaves bio-fuel was used as fuel as compare to gasoline on all engine speeds.

Keywords

biofuel; exhaust systems; ignition; internal combustion engines; petroleum; torque; 4-stroke SI engine; biofuel; biooil; brake mean effective pressure; exhaust emission characteristics; gasoline; performance evaluation; spark ignited engine; specific fuel consumption; thermal efficiency; torque; turmuric leaves-based fuel; 4stroke engine; biofuel; turmeric leaves oil;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology (ICETET), 2010 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Goa

ISSN

2157-0477

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8481-2

Electronic_ISBN

2157-0477

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICETET.2010.138

Filename

5698412