Assessment on the consequences of injection timing and injection pressure on combustion characteristics of sustainable biodiesel fuelled engine

Abstract

In the rapidly growing global energy consumption, diesel engines play the key role. Usage of diesel fuel contributes to harmful air pollution exhausted from combustion chamber. To overcome these serious issues, the biodiesel extracted from many feedstocks have been studied and implemented for the past few decades. The combustion characteristics of diesel are not same as the biodiesel blends due to the discrepancy in physio-chemical properties of biodiesel. Enormous studies have been focused on inadequate combustion profiles of biodiesel in compression ignition engines. This review paper analyzes the previous researches concerning the consequences of proposed effective strategies including the variation in engine operating parameters like fuel injection timing and injection pressure for enhancing combustion characteristics of biodiesel implementation. This study focuses its light on the advancement and retardation methods of injection timing and injection pressure to treat the engine combustion indicators such as in-cylinder pressure, peak cylinder pressure, heat release rate, ignition delay period and combustion duration, finally a comparative evaluation has been developed and the relevant reasons for the variation of combustion characteristics have been conversed. The review concludes that the advancement in injection timing and higher injection pressure are best in amplifying the combustion phenomena of biodiesel fuelling.