Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES-TARIM BILIMLERI DERGISI, cilt.13, sa.3, ss.231-239, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
The aim of this research is to determine the effects of a diesel engine performance and emission characteristics of canola oil in one cylinder diesel engine. For this purpose, a diesel engine of a rated power 5,5 kW, having direct injection and 4 stroke cycle, were used. Studies are based on two main parts in this researh. In the first part, canola oil is blended to diesel fuel % 20, 40, 60, 80 % by volume than emission and engine tests were done. In the second part, canola oil methyl ester is produced by transesterification method and used in emission and engine test. During the tests, torque, emission values and fuel consumption were measured with respect to the engine speed. The consumption of fuel specific and hourly are determined by calculation method. Compared with diesel fuel the values of engine moment and power increased a little bit when canola oil methyl ester was used. The values of engine moment and power were higher that canola oil, the viscosity and density values of oil are decrased and canola oil shows similar properties with diesel fuel. Tests with canola oil showed that the colour of smoke was dark. However, smoke density gets smaller values when oil acid methyl ester was used instead of smoke blended fuel. It was observed that CO2, CO and O-2 values of fuels with methyl ester. As a result, canola oil methyl esters have very close performance values of diesel fuels.