EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS ON PERFORMANCE AND EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF A DIRECT INJECTION DIESEL ENGINE USING CANOLA OIL BIODIESEL WITH EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION (EGR)

The increasing population has increased necessities and demand for energy using the prime mover of this industrial civilization. As the sources of energy for movable sector there are fossil fuels which come with environmental toll, the replacement of existing fuels is very much necessary. So the alternatives such as wind, solar, electric come into the picture. But the large scale implementation of that alternatives appear to be a long way from being perfected. so came biodiesel a much environment friendly alternative which is slowly replacing prime sources for movable sector. In the current project we have done with the production of biodiesel using canola oil by the process of transesterification which is used in analysis after the blending process. The fuels used in this analysis is neat Diesel and B20 blended oil by adding surfactant called Tween 80, aluminium oxides, with and without (1,4)-dioxane to carry out experiments in direct injection diesel engine along with 10% and 20% EGR. The results which are way interesting were taken down in computer aided testing software known as engine soft.