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JOURNAL OF THE ENERGY INSTITUTE
Volume 93, Issue 3, Pages 953-961Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.joei.2019.08.006
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Raw vegetable oils; Heavy fuel oil; Low speed diesel engine; Marine gas oil
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- University of Seville under VI Plan Propio de Investigacion y Transferencia of the University of Seville [VIPPIT-2019-I.3]
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There is a high potential for plant oils as alternative fuel for low and medium speed diesel engines, making petroleum-derived fuels likely to be replaced in these types of engines. Vegetable oils have important advantages over both heavy fuel oil (HFO) and marine gas oil (MGO), the fuels currently used in diesel power plants by large two stroke low-speed diesel engines and by medium speed diesel engines, respectively. The emission of certain pollutants and greenhouse gases like SOx, soot and, mainly, CO2 can be reduced by using vegetable oils in these types of engines. This work discusses the potential of vegetable oils as fuel for power plant diesel engines and the problems that can be derived from their use. Current experiences with medium speed diesel engines together with the analysis carried out in this paper indicate that vegetable oils can substitute HFO and MGO, without almost any engine modification. (C) 2019 Energy Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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