Abstract
KEYWORDS:
biodiesel, alcohol, fuel blend, emissions
ABSTRACT:
In the Czech Republic the increased utilisation of biofuels, especially for diesel engines, has been registered in last years. The rape-seed oil based fuels # called biodiesel, is the most extended. The use of rape-seed oil brings a good ecological and agronomic aspect, e.g. positive energetic and CO2 balance, biological decomposition, etc.
A special attention should be paid for the emissions. The paper presents the practical results of the performance with the commercially available biodiesel and their mixtures with different quantity of fermented ethanol.
The testing was realised with an unmodified AVIA 712.18 truck engine and an unmodified ZETOR 7701 tractor engine according to thirteen-points homologation test method EHK R49 (ÈSN EN ISO 8178-4). Czech trade mark biofuel NATURDIESEL, according to the Czech standard ÈSN 65 6508, served as a basis for fuel blends and as a comparison fuel .
Based on the experiment, it can be said, that the most suitable fuel blend is biodiesel + 2% addition of fermented bioethanol according to following points. This addition significantly reduces the NOx emissions. At the AVIA engine the reduction is about 54% in comparison with non-additived fuel. With the Zetor engine, it#s decreased 88% of its primary value. Even in cause of smokiness, the situation is similar favourable. The power output parameters are almost constant. No significant increase of fuel consumption has been observed.
However, there is higher share of unburned hydrocarbons in dependence on increased alcohol content. In this case, the lower concentration of alcohol is advantageous, which is in accordance to the 2% fuel blend. In the comparison to the petrol diesel, the total amount of emissions at the fuel blends (especially with small content of alcohol) was lower in all cases, which facilitates the realization of emission limits also at the older types of engines.