Biodiesel at the crossroads: A critical review

R Estevez, L Aguado-Deblas, FM Bautista, D Luna… - Catalysts, 2019 - mdpi.com
The delay in the energy transition, focused in the replacement of fossil diesel with biodiesel,
is mainly caused by the need of reducing the costs associated to the transesterification …

A comprehensive review of nanoadditives in Plant-based biodiesels with a special emphasis on essential oils

MJ Nirmala, PC Sekar, A Johnson, U Kizhuveetil… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Biodiesel is a mixture of long-chain fatty acids derived from natural sources such as plants,
animals or microbial biomass, which have long been considered as an attractive alternative …

Performance, emission and combustion study on neat biodiesel and water blends fuelled research diesel engine

S Radhakrishnan, DB Munuswamy, Y Devarajan… - Heat and Mass …, 2019 - Springer
This work investigates the experimental study to examine the operation characteristics of an
orange peel oil biodiesel (BD100) along with water as an oxygenated additive in various …

Investigation on behavior of diesel engine performance, emission, and combustion characteristics using nano-additive in neat biodiesel

Y Devarajan, DB Munuswamy, A Mahalingam - Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Springer
This work investigates the combustion, performance and emission characteristics of neat
palm stearin biodiesel (PSBD) fuelled diesel engine with silver oxide as a additive in various …

Effect of multifunctional fuel additive in diesel/waste oil biodiesel blends on industrial burner flame performance and emission characteristics

M Elkelawy, HAE Bastawissi… - … Journal of Ambient …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The experimental investigation was carried out to find the combustion and emissions
performance of an industrial burner fuelled with five different types of fuel diesel D100 …

Simultaneous reduction of NOx and smoke emissions with low viscous biofuel in low heat rejection engine using selective catalytic reduction technique

V Karthickeyan, S Thiyagarajan, VE Geo, B Ashok… - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
The present work offered a comprehensive investigation on engine characteristics of single
cylinder Direct Injection (DI) diesel engine fuelled with Lemon oil (LO) biofuel. LO was …

The impact of chemical composition of oxygenated fuels on morphology and nanostructure of soot particles

P Verma, M Jafari, SMA Rahman, E Pickering… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the years, oxygenated fuels such as biodiesel and alcohol fuels have been useful in
reducing particulate matter (PM) emissions of diesel engines. The presence of oxygen in the …

Testing and evaluation of performance and emissions characteristics of water-biodiesel aspirated research engine

G Sudalaimuthu, S Rathinam… - … of Testing and …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This work aims to investigate the effect of the addition of water to corn oil biodiesel
(BD)(COBD) in a diesel engine to view its effect on performance and emission …

Effect of antioxidant additives on oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emission reduction from Annona biodiesel operated diesel engine

S Rajendran - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In this present study experimental investigation has been carried out to mitigate the NO x
emission in 20% Annona biodiesel-diesel blend (A20) operated diesel engine by addition of …

Experimental investigations of diesel engine emissions and combustion behaviour using addition of antioxidant additives to jamun biodiesel blend

S Rajendran, P Ganesan - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Depletion of fossil fuel, ever increasing demand for the fuel and serious environmental
issues leads us to go for alternate fuel to CI engines. The objective of the present work is to …