Enhancement of Dual Fuel Diesel Engine Performance by the Electronic Control of Hydrogen Percentage

Abstract

Experimental investigations were introduced on a diesel engine to examine the effects of addition of used lubricating oil (ULO) on diesel engine combustion. This thesis presents the experimental results of utilizing a mixture of ULO as a supplementary fuel with diesel fuel (DF), to provide a way to use this waste fuel as alternative energy. Different experiments were investigated to show the impacts on the emissions and the performance of diesel engine with a mixture of 5 % of ULO + 95 % DF (S2), 10 % of ULO + 90 % of DF (S3) and 20 % of ULO+ 80 % DF (S4) that used with 100 % diesel fuel (DF) (S1). These are used as experimental samples. To carry out this experimental study, a diesel engine generator (DEUTZ / F2L-511), compression-ignition engine, twin-cylinder, 4- stroke, naturally-aspirated, and direct-injection was used. Comparative study between the four samples on the performance of engine emissions and experiments performed were introduced at different engine operating loads. The results showed that the use of ULO is promising as a supplementary fuel for diesel engines, especially at part loads with some deficiency in the engine performance at full load. The presence of ULO percentage blends in DF caused some higher emissions of NOx .The NOx emissions values increase with increasing the engine load as the exhaust temperature increases. It was observed that as the ULO percentage increased in the fuel sample blends, the HCs in the exhaust emissions increased. The highest percentages increase in HC emissions were obtained for 20 %, 10 % and 5 %, ULO respectively. Such increase may be due to low cetane number, high viscosity and high distillation temperature of ULO which leads to larger droplets and poor atomization, that in turn leads to incomplete combustion of ULO compared to S1 (100 % DF ).