Performance
ance & Emission Charecterstics of
o
Diesel Engine Blended
ended with Used Transformer Oil:: A Review
Samyak Jain1, Yogesh Yadav2
1
Research Scholar, 2Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Millennium Instit
Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
ABSTRACT
Our present fuel resources are not going to be around availablee in the form of solid, liquid, and gas.
forever and with the ever increasing consumption Biomass, biodiesel from different vegetable oils and
their extinction is nearly unavoidable. Also our fuel LPG are some of the examples for solid, liquid and
resources which are mostly made up of fossil fuels are gaseous alternative fuels respectively which are
not renewable in nature. In the present stud
study hydrogen commonly used to run the internal combustion
at a constant flow rate of 4lpm was inducted in the engines. Although these fuels are used, they generate
suction, at some distance away from the intake considerable pollutants from the internal combustion
manifold, along with air. Two different fuels on engines. Hydrogen is found to be cleaner fuel among
volume basis were tested as main fuels in a single all other alternative fuels. Hydrogen is largely
cylinder, 4-stroke,
stroke, air cooled, direct injecti
injection diesel available and renewable in nature.
engine developing a power of 4.4 kW, at a rated speed
of 1500 rpm. One fuel was the sole used transformer Transformer oils are an important
impor class of insulating
oil (UTO/UTO100) and the other one was the UTO at oils. It acts as heat transfer medium so that the
40% blended with 60% diesel fuel (UTO40). The operating temperature of a transformer does not
results indicated increase in brake thermal efficiency exceed the specific acceptable limits. Transformer oils
for both the main fuels when hydrogen is inducted and are produced from wax-free
free naphthenic oils. Although
also high reduction in smoke levels. these types of crudes permit pe production of
exceptionally low pour point insulating oils without
Key words: Hydrogen, Used transformer oil, the need for dew axing or special attention to the
Performance, Emission, Combustion degree of fractionation or distillate cut width, they
also contain high percentages of sulphur and nitrogen
INTRODUCTION which must be removed in order to satisfy the
The present energy situation has stimulated active stringent stability requirements of insulating oils . It
research interest in non-petroleum,
petroleum, renewable and non has been found that a highly aromatic, low paraffinic
polluting fuels. Much of the present world’s energy content naphthenic crude oil is a suitable raw material
demand may still be supplied by exhaustible fossil to prepare good transformer oil.
fuels (natural gas, oil and coal), which are also the
material basiss for the chemical industry. It is well Mineral oil is the base material for transformer oil that
known that combustion of fossil fuel causes air is used as coolant in transformers in electrical
pollution in cities and acid rains that damages forests, substations and welding transformers. After prolonged
and also leads to produce more carbon dioxide use, the transformer oil becomes deteoriated and
resulting environmental degradation. In recent year, becomes waste. However, the waste or used
the concern for cleaner air, due to strict air pollution transformer oil (UTO) posses a considerable
consid heating
regulation and the desire to reduce the dependency on value and some of the properties similar to that of
fossil fuels. Many attempts are made to find various diesel fuel. Therefore, it can be used as an alternative
new and renewable energy sources to replace the fuel in compression ignition engines. But the use of
existing petroleum fuels. Alternative fuels are UTO in compression ignition engine gives high