OMI Nwafor - Biomass and Bioenergy, 2004 - Elsevier
The world energy demand has, for the last two decades, witnessed uncertainties in two dimensions. Firstly, the price of conventional fossil fuel is too high and has added burden on …
Use of vegetable oil as compression ignition engine fuel has been investigated by many researchers during last decade either by direct blending with diesel or converting it into bio …
M Dabi, UK Saha - Journal of the Energy Institute, 2019 - Elsevier
Vegetable oils have been identified as the promising alternative source to replace fossil based fuel in the compression ignition (CI) engine. It is renewable and possesses …
OMI Nwafor, G Rice - Applied energy, 1996 - Elsevier
The concept that 100% vegetable oil cannot be used safely in a direct-injection diesel engine for long periods of time has been stressed by many researchers. Short-term engine …
OMI Nwafor, G Rice, AI Ogbonna - Renewable energy, 2000 - Elsevier
Combustion studies on both diesel fuel and vegetable oil fuels, with the standard and advanced injection timing, were carried out using the same engine and test procedures so …
GAP Rao, PR Mohan - Energy Conversion and Management, 2003 - Elsevier
Diesel engines are the prime movers for heavy duty vehicles used in the transportation and agricultural sectors. Diesel engines meet their energy requirement from stored fuels, ie …
CW Yu, S Bari, A Ameen - Proceedings of the Institution of …, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
The use of waste cooking oil (WCO) as an alternative to diesel in engines has advantages from both economic and environmental standpoints. Typical of vegetable oils, WCO has a …
B İşcan, H Aydın - Fuel processing technology, 2012 - Elsevier
Usability of a waste vegetable oil in coated diesel engines was experimentally investigated. Waste corn oil was blended with petroleum diesel fuel by ratios of 15% corn oil to% 85 …
S Bari, CW Yu, TH Lim - Proceedings of the Institution of …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
For a diesel engine, injection timing is a major parameter that sensitively a ects the engine performance, emission and durability. The physical and chemical properties of vegetable …