Effect of Fuel Oil - Gasoline Fusel Blends on the Performance and Emission Characteristics of Spark Ignition Engine: A Review
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Alcohol-based as alternative fuels attract the attention of many researchers. Many kinds of research have been conducted on performance, combustion and emission characteristics of alcohol utilized in spark ignition \nengines. Fusel oil is an alcohol based fuel obtained as a by-product of alcohol fermentation from agricultural such as \nbeet, cone, potatoes, rice, etc. The calorific value, higher evaporation heat and octane number of fuel oil close to other alternative fuels. Despite that, there is limited number of studies refer on the usage of fusel oil as fuel in spark ignition engines. This paper reviews the works done ‘effects of fusel oil as a fuel blends on performance (brake torque, brake power, BSFC, effective efficiency, EGT) and emissions (CO, NOx, HC) characteristics in spark ignition engine. It was seen that when fusel oil – gasoline blend used at almost the engine torque and specific fuel \nconsumption increased, Also HC and CO emissions averagely increased. Furthermore knocking and nitrogen oxides \nNOx were decreased .Moreover volumetric efficiency and octane number increases with the increase in percentage \nof fusel oil in blend tests. In other hand the negative effects that happened in engine performance caused by the \nhigher water content in fusel oil.
Language: English
Subfield: Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Field: Chemical Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2586193296