Impact of Eucalyptus Oil and Diesel Mixture on Engine Performance in a Four Stroke Single Cylinder Engine Operation

The energy consumption of the world has been increasing with industrial growth. The fossil fuel is going to be exhausted in future because of limited reserve and it is estimated that by 2050 the 80% of reserve will be exhausted. Also various problem of emission of pollutant gases in environment is another issue .The other conventional resource like nuclear fuel is costly and big problem in the safe utilization. In view of the fast depletion of fossil fuel, the search for alternative fuels has become inevitable, looking at huge demand of diesel for transportation sector, agriculture sector, commercial sector, industrial sector and power generation sector, the biodiesel is being viewed a substitute of diesel. Therefore, in this research paper the eucalyptus oil which is high octane biomass derived fuel is mixed with diesel in different proportions by volume and used as fuel in four stroke single cylinder diesel engine. The performance and emission characteristics of the engine were studied. The results show the reduction in consumption of fuel as the brake specific fuel consumption was found to decrease. While the emission parameters were also improved, emissions were significantly reduces as the load was increasing. The brake specific fuel consumptions of the engine were studied. It has been investigated that BSFC for Eu100A and Eu100B just in case of Eucalyptus biodiesel was 8.18% and 4.05% below the given fuel for maximum load, which shows that lesser quantity of B100 produce power the same as diesel. Also the factor affecting engine performance using biodiesel like engine wear, engine power, deposits and clogging were studied.