Performance Characteristics of n-Butanol-Diesel Fuel Blend Fired in a Turbo-Charged Compression Ignition Engine
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Figure 7. Crank angle advance for start of injection (SOI)
timing for DF and bl ends at different loads and speed.
5. Acknowledgements
The authors wish to acknowledge and are greatly indebted
for the financial support: (UID 72384 and TÉT_10-1-
2011-0005) and facilitation by the joint research colla-
boration between two Universities: Tshwane University
of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa and Budapest Uni-
versity of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hun-
gary, where the engine experiments were conducted in
the laboratory facility, Jendrassik Gyorgy hotechnikai
Laboratorium in Budapest BME.
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