Combustion, emission, and phase stability features of a diesel engine fueled by Jatropha/ethanol blends and n-butanol as co-solvent

• Main Authors: El-Seesy, Ahmed I., Hassan, Hamdy, Ibraheem, Latif, He, Zhixia, Soudagar, Manzoore Elahi M.
• Format: Article
• Published: Taylor & Francis Inc 2020
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/36498/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

The main challenge of utilizing ethanol in diesel engines in blending mode is the phase separation issue. Therefore, an attempt has been performed to enhance the stability feature of ethanol/Jatropha biodiesel (JME) blends by using n-butanol as co-solvent. The 10% by volume of n-butanol is added to...