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Assessing the Effect of Blending Eucalyptus Oil with Water and Their Impact on Conventional Engine

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Intense growth in industrialization and demands of the increasing population constantly resulted in high usage of limited petroleum resources of the earth. In addition, inflexible emission laws compelled manufacturers to look for alternative sources of fuel. This experiment is one such consequence of a similar escapade. The test biodiesel fuels and conventional fuel were individually combusted in a four-stroke conventional Kirloskar diesel engine. The characteristics of engine performance and emission parameters were analyzed. Test fuels taken into consideration were conventional diesel, E20 biodiesel (20% of eucalyptus oil by volume with diesel), and three unique mixtures of eucalyptus-water-diesel emulsions which vary from each other in the ratio of water content. Eucalyptusdiesel-Water Mixture 1 (EWM1), Eucalyptusdiesel-Water Mixture 2 (EWM2), and Eucalyptusdiesel-Water Mixture 3 (EWM3) have 5%, 10% and 15% of water content, respectively. The results portray the advantages of the use of emulsified fuels over conventional fuel and when compared to diesel, EWM3 Eucalyptusdiesel-Water Mixture 3 (EWM3) yielded the highest performance and efficiency and yet being least emissive than other test fuels.

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The research work was supported by Einstein College of engineering under Anna University, Tamilnadu.

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Senthur, N.S., Imamulhasan, H., Maheshkumar, M., Arun, K. (2020). Assessing the Effect of Blending Eucalyptus Oil with Water and Their Impact on Conventional Engine. In: Yadav, S., Singh, D., Arora, P., Kumar, H. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference in Mechanical and Energy Technology. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 174. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2647-3_35

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