Abstract
The present paper elaborates about the experimentation carried out upon a single cylinder turbo-charged direct injection (TDI) engine using jatropha biodiesel and diesel blend as injected fuel and producer gas as inducted fuel. The experiments were performed to evaluate the overall performance and emission characteristics, at different loading condition keeping gas flow rate constant at 11.69 kg/hr. The result depicted a higher brake thermal efficiency (BTE) (1.31%↑), exhaust gas temperature (EGT) (10.2%↑) with lower brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) (2.4%↓) with increase in loading condition .Consider the emission analysis, smoke opacity (43.6% ↓), nitric oxide (NOx) (10.9%↓) show reducing trend on the expense of higher carbon monoxide (CO) (29%↑) and hydrocarbon (HC) (30.2%↑) for all test fuels at all loading conditions ,in contrast to single fuel mode. Based upon the above discussions, it might be concluded that dual fuel mode with producer gas can evolve as potential substitute for conventional fuel ensuring sustainability and security to the environment.
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