Investigation Size Of Soot Particle Behaviour Using Biodiesel By Computational And Experimental Techniques

Mohd Hafidzal, Mohd Hanafi (2012) Investigation Size Of Soot Particle Behaviour Using Biodiesel By Computational And Experimental Techniques. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

In a diesel engine the soot produce as a result of incomplete fuel combustion happen in the combustion chamber. Some of this soot will move to piston and slowly move down where the lubricant oil is located. This soot makes the lubricant oil become dirty and increase its viscosity. When the lubricant oil viscosity becomes high, that mean often change of lubricant oil is needed to keep up the engine performance. This soot also has solid particles (Particulate Matter: PM) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) that is very harmful to the environment. The purpose of this project is to analyze the properties of size soot particles inside the diesel engine. Besides that, this project purpose also to compare the size of soot particle produce by use Jatropha oil and diesel oil in diesel engines. In this experiment, Jatropha and diesel fuel was mixed and test under engine dyno. To analyze the soot, the smoke tester was used to investigate the properties of soot that comes out of the diesel engine. The soot that comes out of the engine dyno test was collected and brings to scanning electron microscope (SEM) to further study about the soot.

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