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investigations are conducted to study the effect of antioxidants dispersed biodiesel and
biodiesel blend on the performance and emission characteristics of the diesel engine operated
at a constant speed of 1500 rpm, constant injection timing of 215 bar and constant injection
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of 26 bTDC (Before Top Dead Centre). The experimental results revealed that B20SND1000
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test fuels established 7 % improvement in brake thermal efficiency and substantial percentage
reduction of nitric oxide (NO) emission by 22 % for B20SND1000 test fuel, when compared
to B100.
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INTRODUCTION
Present engines are fuelled by high quality fuel additives to meet the required fuel properties
and to protect both engine and the environment [1]. Near Future, renewable fuels with highly
efficient additives are awaited to have a more considerable role to protect the environment
and human without any negative influence on biodiversity. As a consequence, higher
emission of NO causes smog, ozone depletion and acid rains [2]. Among the high quality fuel
additives, antioxidant additives are used in fuels to minimize NO formation. Free radicals
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(hydroperoxyl, hydroxyl, alkoxyl and peroxyl) that are formated during combustion
influenced the rate of oxidation reaction and NO formation. McCormick et al. [3] suggested
that, NO emission in biodiesel can be minimized by addition of antioxidants to the fuel.
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Antioxidants inhibits and delays the oxidation process by donating hydrogen atom or an
electron to a radical derivative and minimizes the free radical formation by chain breaking
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tocopherol) at 500 ppm separately with biodiesel on the engine performance and emission
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characteristics in a four cylinder, water cooled, indirect injection diesel engine and found
reduction in brake specific fuel consumption and exhaust emission for antioxidants dispersed
test fuels. Thomas et al. [6] achieved the reduction of brake specific fuel consumption in a
four cylinder turbocharged direct injection diesel engine by dosing antioxidants namely 3, 4,
5-tri hydroxyl benzoic acid (Propyl Gallate), 1, 2, 3 tri-hydroxy benzene (Pyrogallol) and 2tert butyl-4-methoxy phenol (Butylated Hydroxyanisole) of 1000 ppm separately in croton
megalocarpus biodiesel.
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Varatharajan et al. [4] carried out the performance and emission characteristics in a
computerized four stroke, water cooled single cylinder diesel engine by dispersing
antioxidants
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phenylenediamine,
ethylenediamine,
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hydroxytoluene and ascorbic acid with Jatropha biodiesel at 0.005, 0.015, 0.025, 0.035 and
0.050 % volume separately and observed improvement in BSFC for antioxidant dispersed test
fuels due to the friction reduction quality of amines. In addition, they observed 43 %
reduction of NO emission for 0.025 % mass concentration phenylenediamine with Jatropha
biodiesel.
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Varatharajan and Cheralathan [7] experimentally analyzed the reason for the reduction of NO
emission by the addition of antioxidants such as N, N-diphenyl-1,4-phenylenediamine
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dispersed test fuels was mainly due to the suppression of peroxyl free radical formations. In
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antioxidant quenches the OH radicals, which are creditworthy for the formation of NO
emission. Whereas, the multiple antioxidants as additives in biodiesel blends are limited in
scientific indexes. So in order to experimentally encounter the effect of multiple antioxidants
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biodiesel blend.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
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Diesel (B0) and Jatropha biodiesel (B100) are used as material in this study.
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bomb calorimeter that follows the ASTM D240 standard is used to determine the calorific
value for the test fuels. The density of the test fuels is measured by using a digital density
meter that follows the ASTM D1298 standard and the kinematic viscosity for the test fuels is
determined by using a Saybolt Viscometer as per ASTM D88 standards. The
physicochemical properties of antioxidants dispersed test fuels are measured and presented in
Table 2.
Engine setup and measurements
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The experiments are carried out on a single-cylinder, four stroke, air cooled, direct injection,
diesel engine whose technical specifications are listed in Table 3. The schematic layout of the
engine test rig is shown in Figure 1. The engine is experimented at constant speeds of 1500
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rpm, constant injection timing of 215 bar and constant injection of 26 bTDC. All the test
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datas are performed for three runs and the average of the three measurements is used to
represent the test result. A calibrated k-type chrome-alumel thermocouple is used to measure
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the exhaust gas temperature (EGT) at the immediate exhaust of the engine. The level of
pollutants (carbon monoxide (CO), unburned hydrocarbon (UBHC), and nitric oxide (NO))
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444 exhaust gas analyzer and the level of smoke opacity is measured by using AVL 437
smoke meter.
Uncertainty analysis
In general, errors and uncertainties of data occurs in an experiments due to the selection of
working discipline, calibration, selection of instrument, observation, method of investigation
and environmental condition [12]. The uncertainties for the performance and emission
parameters such as BTE, CO, UBHC, NO and smoke opacity are determined as 1.5 %,
0.01 % vol, 1 ppm and 1 % respectively.
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respect to bmep is shown in Figure 2. Due to the higher density and lower calorific value of
biodiesel, increase in BSEC is observed as 14.8 MJ/kWh, compared with B0 of 13 MJ/kWh
respectively. It is observed that B20SND1000, B20 and B100SND1000 test fuels produced 7,
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6 and 5 % less BSEC than B100, respectively. The consequences of reduction in BSEC
obviously increased brake thermal efficiency (BTE) for the antioxidants dispersed test fuels.
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The BTE for the antioxidant dispersed test fuels with respect to bmep is shown in Figure 3.
The maximum BTE values observed for the test fuels B20SND1000, B20 and B100SND1000
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are 30.5, 30.3 and 30 % respectively compared with B100 of 28.5 %. This improvement in
BTE is due to the friction reduction properties of the amines [4].
EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS
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The most harmful pollutant that should be controlled during the combustion phase is NO
emission. In biodiesel combustion, NO is formed mainly due to thermal and prompt
mechanism. The rich oxygen content of biodiesel increases the oxidation reaction in fuel-rich
zones during higher combustion temperature, resulting in increased formation of Thermal
NO. Prompt NO is eventually formed by the reaction of free radicals with nitrogen. It takes
place very early in the combustion process and is partly dependent on the fuel radical
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B20 and B100SND1000 test fuels are 277, 321 and 307 C respectively, compared with B100
of 339 C. A similar reduction in NO emission phenomenon is reported [4, 7, 8, 10] by
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combustion; as a result lower CO emission is observed for B100 as 0.05 % vol compared
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with B0 of 0.09 % vol. During combustion, peroxyl and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) radicals
formed successively are converted into hydroxyl radicals (OH), by absorbing heat from the
combustion chamber. Antioxidants scavenges the concentration of peroxyl and hydrogen
peroxide radicals and affects the CO conversion process by resulting in higher CO emission
for B100SND1000 by 20 %, 40 % lower CO emission for B20 and the same for
B20SND1000 test fuel when compared with B100. Increase in CO emissions for
B100SND1000 test fuels is due to scavenging of OH radicals by the antioxidant addition,
which acts as an oxidation inhibitor [14].
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The UBHC emission for the antioxidants dispersed test fuels with respect to bmep is shown
in Figure 7. The rich oxygen content of biodiesel promotes the complete combustion, which
helps in reducing UBHC emission for B100 as 18 ppm compared to B0 of 25 ppm. The
UBHC emissions for B20 test fuel is 28 % lower and same for B20SND1000 and
B20SND1000 test fuels compared to B100 respectively. Antioxidants containing aromatic
ring with hydroxyl (OH) group donates hydrogen to the free radical which inhibits oxidation
process by affecting the conversion of CO to CO2 and HC to H2O.
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The smoke opacity for the antioxidants dispersed test fuels with respect to bmep is shown in
Figure 8. The rich oxygen molecule present in biodiesel, improved the combustion process by
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resulting in lowered smoke opacity for B100 compared to B0. For B100SND1000 and
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B20SND1000 test fuels, 5 and 3 % increase in smoke opacity are observed, whereas, 6 %
lower smoke opacity is observed for B20 test fuel compared with B100 of 37.6 %. Slight
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increase in smoke opacity is observed for the B20SND1000 and B100SND1000 test fuels due
to the free radical quenching character of antioxidant delaying the rate of oxidation [15].
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The incorporation of the antioxidants such as N-Phenyl-p-phenylenediamine (DPD), N, NDimethyl-p-Phenylenediamine Dihydrochloride (NPPD) and Succinimide (SU) with the
biodiesel and its blend significantly improved the performance and emission characteristics
of the diesel engine. The brake thermal efficiency and NO emission for the antioxidants
dispersed test fuels are substantially improved compared to biodiesel operation. Owing to the
combined effect of antioxidants dispersed test fuels, drastically reduction in the level of NO
emission by 22 % is observed with 7 % improvement in the brake thermal efficiency for
B20SND1000 test fuel when compared to that of B100.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work received financial and analytical support from the National Institute of
Technology, Tiruchirappalli.
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Specifications
N-Phenyl-pphenylenediamine
CAS Number
101-54-2
536-46-9
123-56-8
Chemical
Formula
C6H5NHC6H4NH2
(CH3)2NC6H4NH22HCl
C4H5NO2
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Kirloskar, India
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