Optimal Mixture Ratios of Biodiesel Ethanol Diesel for Diesel Engines

Jun LI, Chao GUO, Wen Bin WANG, Zhuo Jian WU

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DOI: 10.4236/epe.2011.35078                

Abstract

In this paper, we study the best-mixture ratio of biodiesel-ethanol-diesel for diesel engines. The simulation results show that the integrated indexes including engine power, cost-effectiveness and emission properties are rather better with different optimizing index when the ratio of bio-diesel, ethanol and diesel are 71.58:2.72:25.70 and 50:2.4127:47.5873.

Keywords

Diesel Engine, Biodiesel, Ethanol, Best-Mixture Ratio, Integrated Indexes

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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