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• TITLE: Performance Characteristics of n-Butanol-Diesel Fuel Blend Fired in a Turbo-Charged Compression Ignition Engine

  AUTHORS: Lennox Siwale, Lukács Kristóf, Torok Adam, Akos Bereczky, Antal Penninger, Makame Mbarawa, Kolesnikov Andrei

  KEYWORDS: Brake Specific Fuel Consumption; Brake Thermal Efficiency; Exhaust Gas Temperature; n-Butanol/Diesel

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, Vol.1 No.5, November 28, 2013

  ABSTRACT: In this study, n-butanol-diesel blends were burned in a turbo-charged, direct injection diesel engine where the brake thermal efficiency, (BTE) or brake specific fuel consumption, (BSFC) was compared with that of ethanol-diesel or methanol-diesel blends in another study by other authors. The test blends used were B5, B10 and B20 (where B5 is 5% n-butanol by volume and 95% diesel fuel-DF). In this study, the BTE was higher and the BSFC improved more than in the other study. Because of improved BTE with increasing brake mean effective pressure, BMEP, the BSFC reduced, however the increased shared volume of n-butanol in DF increased BSFC. Adding n-butanol in DF slightly derated the torque, brake power output with increasing speed, and caused a fall in exhaust gas temperatures, (EGT) which improves the volumetric efficiency and reduces compression work. Therefore, a small-shared volume of n-butanol in DF fired in a turbo-charged diesel engine performs better in terms of BTE and BSFC than that of ethanol or methanol blending in DF.