Performance Analysis of Diesel Engine Using Bio Ethanol (Water Hyacinth) by Response Surface Methodology (RSM)

• DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.737.53
• Publication Date: 2015-03-02T13:07:50Z
• Authors: Akhilesh Kumar Ch...; H. Chelladurai; C. Kannan
• Keywords: 13. Climate action; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology; 7. Clean energy

In current years, many researches have been worked to find new sources of alternative fuels. In this situation, the water hyacinth will be a new source for bioethanol. In this study, bioethanol extracted from water hyacinth is blended with diesel (5-BED, 5% bioethanol and 95% diesel v/v) and has been used to experimentally investigate the diesel engine performance and emission. The response surface methodology (RSM) technique with three engine operating variables like (i) Load, (ii) Compression ratio (CR) and (iii) Fuel Injection pressure (FIP) has been implemented to evaluate diesel engine performance using bioethanol diesel blend. The equations were obtained for Brake power (BP), Brake mean effective pressure (BMEP), Brake thermal efficiency (BTHE), and NO emission by using quadratic polynomial