The main objective of this study is to improve the performance and cleaning up of diesel engine's exhaust by fumigating known quantity of methanol and methyl ethyl ketone individually using a custom made Electronic fuel injector controlled by a microprocessor. To control the emission from diesel engine and to improve performance, alternate fuel and in-cylinder control techniques are used. The e...

The objective of this work is to optimize the control parameters of the direct injection (DI) single cylinder diesel engine with respect to NOx (Oxides of Nitrogen) and fuel emissions through experimental investigations and Taguchi method. A single cylinder 5.2 kW diesel engine was selected for this experiment. Five parameters such as clearance volume, valve opening pressure, nozzle-hole diamet...

various combustion characteristics and properties are studied while selecting a fuel for any engine. the choice of the engine and fuel are highly interrelated. vegetable oil is one obvious fuel particularly because their fuel properties are closer to diesel fuel. two important properties, the cetane number and the calorific value are similar to diesel. hence diesel engines can be operated on ve...

nowadays biodiesel is receiving more attention as a most important renewable energy for using in diesel engines. inthis research, the application of response surface methodology (rsm) was highlighted to investigate the effects of biodiesel-diesel blends (b0, b20, b50 and b100), engine operating parameters (engine load and  speed) on co2 emission of a diesel engine. the experiments were conducte...

this research uses computational modeling to explore another method to increase diesel engine performance while maintaining low pollutant emission levels. previous studies have shown that injection-rate profiles and injector configurations play important roles on the performance and emissions of particulate and nox in di diesel engines. since the most important engine design parameters, includi...

Multidimensional modelling of open-cycle process of OM355 engine was developed. Calculations for computational mesh were carried out. The results of the model were validated by experimentally measured in-cylinder pressure and the good agreement between calculations and measurements approved the trustworthy of numerical code. Results included pressure, temperature, emission and Rate of heat rel...

The main objective of this research is to study the effects of JP-4-biodiesel-diesel fuel blends and operating parameters on the emission characteristics of a CI engine. The experimental tests were performed on a four-cylinder DI diesel engine. The Mixture-RSM method was used to develop mathematical models based on experimental data. The results showed that with the increase of the biodiesel pr...

A study on ignition and early combustion development has been performed in an optical engine at incylinder thermodynamic conditions representative of those occurring during the cold start of a modern DI Diesel engine for passenger cars at an ambient temperature of -20oC. A general description of the process has been derived from in-cylinder pressure analysis and high speed imaging, and the effe...

As part of the VECTIS code validation programme, CFD simulations were conducted to investigate direct-inject (DI) diesel engine combustion with the newly implemented Ricardo Two-Zone Flamelet (RTZF) combustion model. A small HSDI research engine was chosen as subject. The simulation programme consisted of 6 cases forming a complete injection time swing. CFD simulation results were compared dire...

This study discusses the performance and combustion characteristics of a direct injection (DI) diesel engine fueled with biodiesels such as waste (frying) palm oil methyl ester (WPOME) and canola oil methyl ester (COME). In order to determine the performance and combustion characteristics, the experiments were conducted at the constant engine speed mode (1500 rpm) under the full load condition ...