Challenges and opportunities in improving the production of bio-ethanol

J Baeyens, Q Kang, L Appels, R Dewil, Y Lv… - Progress in Energy and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Bio-ethanol, as a clean and renewable fuel, is gaining increasing attention, mostly through
its major environmental benefits. It can be produced from different kinds of renewable …

Influence of diethyl ether (DEE) addition in ethanol-biodiesel-diesel (EBD) and methanol-biodiesel-diesel (MBD) blends in a diesel engine

H Venu, V Madhavan - Fuel, 2017 - Elsevier
The present work focuses on improving the performance of ternary blends (alcohol-biodiesel-
diesel) by using DEE (diethyl ether) as ignition enhancer. The test fuels used are diesel, a …

Effect of Al2O3 nanoparticles in biodiesel-diesel-ethanol blends at various injection strategies: Performance, combustion and emission characteristics

H Venu, V Madhavan - Fuel, 2016 - Elsevier
The current experimental work focusses on influence of Alumina (Al 2 O 3) nanoparticle on
various injection strategies. Experiments were conducted with three different injection …

Modeling viscosity and density of ethanol-diesel-biodiesel ternary blends for sustainable environment

L Razzaq, M Farooq, MA Mujtaba, F Sher, M Farhan… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Rapid depletion in fossil fuels, inflation in petroleum prices, and rising energy demand have
forced towards alternative transport fuels. Among these alternative fuels, diesel-ethanol and …

Development of empirical correlations for density and viscosity estimation of ternary biodiesel blends

MA Mujtaba, MA Kalam, HH Masjuki, L Razzaq… - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
This study aims to investigate the density and viscosity of ternary biodiesel blends. Fuel
density and viscosity play an important role in the fuel injection system, flame propagation …

Review of experimental and computational studies on spray, combustion, performance, and emission characteristics of biodiesel fueled engines

AK Agarwal, S Park, A Dhar… - Journal of …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Biodiesel has emerged as a suitable alternative to mineral diesel in compression ignition
(CI) engines in order to ensure global energy security and to reduce engine out emissions in …

Measurements and empirical correlations in predicting biodiesel-diesel blends' viscosity and density

M Gülüm, A Bilgin - Fuel, 2017 - Elsevier
One of the attempts to limit the use of fossil fuels in automobiles is to replace them partially
or totally with clean and renewable fuels. Among renewable fuels, biodiesel has emerged as …

Artificial neural network models to predict density, dynamic viscosity, and cetane number of biodiesel

CI Rocabruno-Valdés, LF Ramírez-Verduzco… - Fuel, 2015 - Elsevier
Biodiesel is considered as an alternative source of energy obtained from renewable
materials. This paper presents models based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) to predict …

Effects of water content on the solubility between Isopropanol-Butanol-Ethanol (IBE) and diesel fuel under various ambient temperatures

C Jin, Z Geng, X Liu, JD Ampah, J Ji, G Wang, K Niu… - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Isopropanol/n-butanol/ethanol (IBE) is an intermediate product of microbial
fermentation during n-butanol production. It not only retains many advantages of oxygenated …

Physical properties of (jojoba oil+ biodiesel),(jojoba oil+ diesel) and (biodiesel+ diesel) blends

Z Al-Hamamre, A Al-Salaymeh - Fuel, 2014 - Elsevier
Jojoba plant product (seeds) contains about 40–50% of seed dry weight oil, which is more
than the amount produced by other oilseed crops such as soybeans and rapeseed. Unlike …