Performance and emission characteristics of watermelon seed oil biodiesel blend in a single-cylinder diesel engine

Abstract

The world is currently suffering with the crises of fossil fuel depletion. Fossil fuel plays a vital role in our life. Search for an alternative fuel, vegetable oil's chemical properties are close enough to mineral diesel and it may be used for alternative of diesel. The present investigation is water melon seed oil biodiesel blend in a single-cylinder diesel engine. The produced biodiesel from watermelon seed oil with blending ratio of BW1, BW2, BW3, BW4 and Diesel. The performance and emission test were conducted on single cylinder diesel engine. The break power under specific fuel consumption the emission characteristics such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxides, nitrogen oxide and other gases performance characteristics were obtained. Thus observed that the BW2 and BW3 biodiesel blends produce effects results with other blends in a SFC, BTE and emission characteristics such as CO emission, NOx emission, HC emission and CO2 emission behavior.