JMES The International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Sciences
Vol 2, No 1 (2018)

Experimental Study on Effect of Injection Pressure to Spray Characteristics, Performance and Emissions of DieselEngine DI 20 C Using Biodiesel Fuel

Alham A.K. Mahanggi (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Bambang Sudarmanta (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Hary Soebagyo (Balai Besar Teknologi Kekuatan Struktur (B2TKS), Badan Pengkajian dan Penerapan Teknologi (BPPT), Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Mar 2018

Abstract

Biodiesel as an alternative fuel can replace fossil fuels. However, biodiesel has a higher value of viscosity, density and surface tension to fossil fuels. Increasing the injection pressure on the injector is one solution to overcome the problem of high viscosity, density, and surface tension in biodiesel. This study aims to determine the effect of increasing injection pressure and injection timing variations on spray characteristics, performance and exhaust emissions diesel engine. Injection pressure namely 200, 210, 220, 230 kg/cm$^2$ by setting the rotation of adjusting screw the injector. The results of this study were obtained by increasing the pressure injection of biodiesel fuel by 230 kg/cm$^2$ resulting in fuel spray characteristics better than the standard 200 kg/cm$^2$ and resulting improvements in the penetration length, spray angle, the average diameter size of each 30$\%$, 28$\%$, and 9.78$\%$. And performance improvements and exhaust emissions also occur, namely Thermal Efficiency, Specific Fuel Consumption, and Smoke Opacity with values of 16.99$\%$, 14.15$\%$, and 46.39$\%$ improved respectively.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jmes

Publisher

Subject

Energy Materials Science & Nanotechnology Mechanical Engineering

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Topics covered by JMES include most topics related to mechanical sciences including energy conversion (wind, turbine, and power plant), mechanical structure and design (solid mechanics, machine design), manufacturing (welding, industrial robotics, metal forming), advanced materials (composites, ...