Advances in diesel–alcohol blends and their effects on the performance and emissions of diesel engines

S Kumar, JH Cho, J Park, I Moon - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2013 - Elsevier
The increasing energy demand, surging oil prices, depleting oil reserves and environmental
pollution problems associated with the use of fossil fuels have sparked renewed interest to …

Feasibility of diesel–biodiesel–ethanol/bioethanol blend as existing CI engine fuel: An assessment of properties, material compatibility, safety and combustion

SA Shahir, HH Masjuki, MA Kalam, A Imran… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
The global fossil fuel crisis and emission problems lead to investigations on alternative fuels.
In this quest, a successful finding is the partial substitution of diesel with ethanol/bioethanol …

Combustion, performance and emission analysis of diesel engine fuelled by higher alcohols (butanol, octanol and heptanol)/diesel blends

M Nour, AMA Attia, SA Nada - Energy conversion and management, 2019 - Elsevier
As there were limited efforts towards the substitution of diesel fuel with higher alcohols to
operate diesel engine, the current work aims to evaluate diesel engine performance at wide …

Alcohols as alternative fuels in compression ignition engines for sustainable transportation: A review

TK Sahu, PC Shukla, G Belgiorno… - Energy Sources, Part A …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Alcohol fuels, primarily ethanol and methanol, have emerged as one of the important
alternatives for sustainable transportation and power generation applications, due to the …

Review on the use of diesel–biodiesel–alcohol blends in compression ignition engines

R Niculescu, A Clenci, V Iorga-Siman - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
The use of alternative fuels contributes to the lowering of the carbon footprint of the internal
combustion engine. Biofuels are the most important kinds of alternative fuels. Currently …

Stability, lubricity, viscosity, and cold-flow properties of alcohol− diesel blends

M Lapuerta, R García-Contreras… - Energy & …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Alcohols have an interesting potential as blending components for diesel fuels because of
their capacity to reduce soot formation. Because they have increasing routes for their …

Biofuels from microbes

D Antoni, VV Zverlov, WH Schwarz - Applied microbiology and …, 2007 - Springer
Today, biomass covers about 10% of the world's primary energy demand. Against a
backdrop of rising crude oil prices, depletion of resources, political instability in producing …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of performance, combustion and emissions characteristics of methanol-diesel dual-fuel compression ignition engine: A review

MR Saxena, RK Maurya, P Mishra - Journal of Traffic and Transportation …, 2021 - Elsevier
The energy security concern and rapidly diminishing fossil fuel resources demand the
development of renewable and economically attractive fuel for reciprocating engines …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of cerium oxide nanoparticle addition in diesel and diesel-biodiesel-ethanol blends on the performance and emission characteristics of a CI engine

VAM Selvan, RB Anand, M Udayakumar - J Eng Appl Sci, 2009 - envirox.pl
An experimental investigation is carried out to establish the performance and emission
characteristics of a compression ignition engine while using cerium oxide nanoparticles as …

Experimental investigation on the performance and emissions of a diesel engine fuelled with ethanol–diesel blends

J Huang, Y Wang, S Li, AP Roskilly, H Yu… - Applied Thermal …, 2009 - Elsevier
An experimental investigation on the application of the blends of ethanol with diesel to a
diesel engine was carried out. First, the solubility of ethanol and diesel was conducted with …