Utilization of pyrolytic oil and hydrogen enriched syngas from single feedstock (delonix regia) through pyrolysis process and its influence on performance and emission characteristics in CI engine

The main objective of the present investigation is to conduct the performance, combustion and emission analysis of CI engine operated using hydrogen enriched syngas (pyrolytic gas) and biodiesel (pyrolytic oil) as dual fuel mode condition. Both the pyrolytic oil and syngas is obtained from single feedstock delonix regia fruit pod through pyrolysis process and then pyrolytic oil is converted into biodiesel through esterification. Initially biomass is subjected to thermal degradation at various pyrolysis temperature ranges like 350-600 degrees C. During the pyrolysis process syngas, pyrolytic oil and char are produced. The syngas is directly used in the CI engine and pyrolytic oil is converted into biodiesel and then used in the CI engine. The pyrolytic oil and syngas is subjected to FTIR and GC/TCD analysis respectively. The syngas analysis confirms the presence of various gases like H2, CH4, CO2, CO and C2H4 in different proportions. The various proportions of the syngas is mainly depending upon the reactor temperature and moisture content in the biomass. The syngas composition varies with increase in the temperature and at 400 degrees C, higher amount of hydrogen is present and its composition are H2 28.2%, CO is 21.9%, CH4 is 39.1% and other gases in smaller amounts. The biodiesel of B20 and syngas of 8lpm produced from the same feedstock are considered as test sample fuels in the CI engine under dual fuel mode operation to study the perfor-mance and emission characteristics. The study reveals that BTE has slight increase than diesel of 1.5% at maximum load. On the another hand emission like CO, HC and smoke are reduced by 15%,25% and 32% respectively at full load condition, whereas NOx emission is increased at all loads in the range of 10-15%. Therefore B20+syngas of 8lpm can be used as an alternative fuel in CI engine without any modification and major products from py-rolysis process with waste biomass is fully used as fuel in the CI engine.(c) 2022 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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The main objective of this study is to analyze the performance, combustion and emission of a CI engine using hydrogen enriched syngas and biodiesel as dual fuels. The results show that using B20 biodiesel and 8lpm syngas can be an alternative fuel for CI engines, which slightly improves fuel efficiency and reduces CO, HC, and smoke emissions, but increases NOx emissions.