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International Journal of Advanced Technology and Engineering Exploration (IJATEE)

ISSN (Print):2394-5443    ISSN (Online):2394-7454
Volume-6 Issue-54 May-2019
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Paper Title : Diesel engine performance and emission characteristic enhancement using TOPSIS
Author Name : Sunil G Dambhare, Sandeep S Kore, Firoz Z Pathan and Mandar Vahadane
Abstract :

The demand for fuel is increasing, and the availability of fossil fuel reserves is limited. The amount of concern arising from the emission problems causing the environment and ecosystem are increasing exponentially. It requires the industry to find the optimum solution. Biodiesel can be stored and used as petroleum diesel. It can be used in blended or pure forms without any modification in the engine. Use of bio-diesel has shown a remarkable reduction of toxic emissions and noise and emissions. This research deals with the use of Jatropha oil as biodiesel to improve the emission characteristics; at the same time, the performance characteristics need to be improved. The diesel engine is optimized with different blends of Jatroha oil as biodiesel, compression ratio, and load using L27 orthogonal array of full factorial design of experiment. The emission parameters, such as HC, CO, and CO2 are measured. The performance parameters viz brake power, brake thermal efficiency, specific fuel consumption, and volumetric efficiency are calculated. The entropy method determines the weight. Optimization is performed using multi-criteria decision-making technique with the TOPSIS method. The results show that blend B10 and a compression ratio of 15 found to be the optimum setting for diesel engine using biodiesel blends to optimize the performance.

Keywords : Biodiesel, Diesel engine, Design of experiment, Entropy method, MCDM, TOPSIS.
Cite this article : Dambhare SG, Kore SS, Pathan FZ, Vahadane M. Diesel engine performance and emission characteristic enhancement using TOPSIS. International Journal of Advanced Technology and Engineering Exploration. 2019; 6(54):126-132. DOI:10.19101/IJATEE.2019.650042.
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