Experimental investigation of steam injection on performance and emissions in a single cylinder diesel engine fueled with soybean biodiesel

Abstract

The worlds population growth has been stimulated tremendous demand of energy The main source of this energy comes from ignition of fossils fuels that add to pollute the surroundings The diesel engines have been the largely economic route of commercial transportation of both sea and land transportation Nonetheless the reduction of emission arising from the diesel engine is the major issue which directs the attention of researchers to build up novel in cylinder platforms tailored towards treatment equipment and also to look for alternative fuels to overcome emission problems at possible extents In the current period, the utilization of biodiesel in automotive industries is considerably increased because of depletion of fossil fuels and its associated pollutions The biodiesel has a greater positive impact on greenhouse gas emissions as well as locally produced small energy content which attracts researchers to investigate further in this field The key sources of biodiesels are soybean rapeseed pal canola and other used cooking oils According to EPAs Renewable fuel standards program regulatory impact analysis-2010 biodiesel from soybean oil reduces an average of 57 percent of greenhouse emissions compared to diesel Most of the earlier studies show that the utilization of bio-diesel promotes less carbon-monoxide particulate matter and hydrocarbons by greater extent when weighed against the neat diesel D the only drawback is increase in NOx emissions It increases by increasing the blend ratio of bio diesel with the diesel and more for neat bio diesel B100 . newline