Evaluation of n-butanol as an oxygenated additive to improve combustion-emission-performance characteristics of a diesel engine fuelled with a diesel-calophyllum inophyllum biodiesel blend

• Main Authors: Imtenan, S., Masjuki, Haji Hassan, Varman, M., Fattah, I.M.R.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General); TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/13837/1/Evaluation_of_n-butanol_as_an_oxygenated_additive_to_improve_.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/13837/; http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2015/ra/c4ra15474f

Alexandrian laurel or Calophyllum inophyllum oil is considered as one of the most forthcoming non-edible biodiesel sources in recent years. In the present study, the relative improvement of an Alexandrian laurel biodiesel-diesel blend (AL20) was attempted with the addition of 5-10 n-butanol (by vol)...