A Research Paper on Performance Analysis of Four Stroke Diesel Engine by Using Biogas and Diesel
PG Student, Mechanical Engineering Department, GEC-Bhuj, India
ABSTRACT
This paper aims the experimental investigation of the IC engine using diesel as a pilot fuel with purified biogas. Biogas, composed principally of methane, has limited use in energy generation due to the presence of carbon dioxide (CO2). Biogas cannot be burnt because presence of CO2 causes corrosion in the reaction chamber. There are various existing technologies for the removal of CO2 from a gas stream. Most of the processes are chemical based and expensive. In this work, CI engine is operated at different proportions of purified biogas-diesel mixture. Engine performance parameters like engine brake power, brake specific fuel consumption, brake thermal efficiency and volumetric efficiency were measured and compared with parameters obtained from conventional diesel operated engine. Investigated results show that biogas premixed charge diesel engine NOx emission is decreased and CO and HC emissions are increased as the flow of biogas is increased.
