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Combustion and emission characteristics of diesel engine fuelled with methyl esters of pungam oil and rice bran oil
Rao, G. Lakshmi Narayana; Nallusamy, N.; Sampath, S.; … - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 29 (2008) 3, pp. 314-328
exhibited lower unburned hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide and soot emissions with a penalty of higher NO<SUB align …="right"><SMALL>x</SMALL></SUB> emissions. …
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Combustion and emission characteristics of diesel engine fuelled with methyl esters of pungam oil and rice bran oil
Rao, G. Lakshmi Narayana; Nallusamy, N.; Sampath, S.; … - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 29 (2008) 3, pp. 314-328
exhibited lower unburned hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide and soot emissions with a penalty of higher NOx emissions. …
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Effect of choice of pilot fuel on the performance of natural gas in diesel engines
Nwafor, O.M.I - In: Renewable Energy 21 (2000) 3, pp. 495-504
Energy conversion alone is inadequate to satisfy long-term energy demands and to gain independence from petroleum-based fuels. It is, therefore, of great importance that all potential fuel alternatives be recognised and examined. Natural gas and bio-liquids may provide such alternatives and...
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The effect of elevated fuel inlet temperature on performance of diesel engine running on neat vegetable oil at constant speed conditions
Nwafor, O.M.I - In: Renewable Energy 28 (2003) 2, pp. 171-181
The concept that engine design is all important in the use of vegetable oils as a diesel fuel has been pointed out by many researchers. One hundred percent of vegetable oil can be used safely in an indirect injection engine, but not in a direct injection engine due to the high degree of...
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Effect of advanced injection timing on the performance of rapeseed oil in diesel engines
Nwafor, O.M.I.; Rice, G.; Ogbonna, A.I. - In: Renewable Energy 21 (2000) 3, pp. 433-444
Combustion studies on both diesel fuel and vegetable oil fuels, with the standard and advanced injection timing, were carried out using the same engine and test procedures so that comparative assessments may be made. The diesel engine principle demands self-ignition of the fuel as it is injected...
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Impact analysis of biodiesel on engine performance—A review
Dwivedi, Gaurav; Jain, Siddharth; Sharma, M.P. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 15 (2011) 9, pp. 4633-4641
Energy is a basic requirement for economic development. Every sector of Indian economy-agriculture, industry transport, commercial and domestic needs input of energy. The economic development plans implemented since independence have necessarily required increasing amount of energy. As a result...
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Combustion characteristics of a 4-stroke CI engine operated on Honge oil, Neem and Rice Bran oils when directly injected and dual fuelled with producer gas induction
Banapurmath, N.R.; Tewari, P.G.; Yaliwal, V.S.; … - In: Renewable Energy 34 (2009) 7, pp. 1877-1884
Energy is an essential requirement for economic and social development of any country. Sky rocketing of petroleum fuel costs in present day has led to growing interest in alternative fuels like vegetable oils, alcoholic fuels, CNG, LPG, Producer gas, biogas in order to provide a suitable...
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Optimization and oxidative stability of biodiesel production from rice bran oil
El Boulifi, N.; Bouaid, A.; Martinez, M.; Aracil, J. - In: Renewable Energy 53 (2013) C, pp. 141-147
Biorefinery approach is introduced for the biodiesel production by utilizing low cost raw material, such as rice bran oil (RBO). The valorization of RBO was carried out by homogeneous transesterification process using response surface methodology (RSM) based on a two-variable central composition...
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Biodiesel production process optimization and characterization to assess the suitability of the product for varied environmental conditions
Eevera, T.; Rajendran, K.; Saradha, S. - In: Renewable Energy 34 (2009) 3, pp. 762-765
In this study, both edible (coconut oil, palm oil, groundnut oil, and rice bran oil) and non-edible oils (pongamia, neem and cotton seed oil) were used to optimize the biodiesel production process variables like catalyst concentration, amount of methanol required for reaction, reaction time and...
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Influence of fuel properties and composition on NOx emissions from biodiesel powered diesel engines: A review
Varatharajan, K.; Cheralathan, M. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16 (2012) 6, pp. 3702-3710
regulated and unregulated exhaust emissions. However, most researchers have observed a significant increase in NOx emissions … believe that the fuel properties have been shown to effect the emissions of NOx. The present work reviews the effect of fuel … properties and composition on NOx emissions from biodiesel fuelled engines. The paper is organised in three sections. The first …
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