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Physics Of Cylinder Pressure During 4 Engine Speed

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4 Results and Discussion
4.1 In-cylinder pressure
The evolution of in-cylinder pressure during 4-engine speed is shown in Figure1a, b, c, & d. From the in-cylinder pressure trace, it can be seen that the addition of BA will retard ignition timing. The timing of peak combustion pressure is slightly retarded consequences, of BA adding. The pressure rise rate in the figure 1a and b shows that BA-containing fuels have a higher-pressure rise rate at speed1400 and 1800 to 10% BA. A relative higher-pressure rise will assist to improve thermal efficiency. Figure1c&d shows that the maximum rise pressure when BA 20% at high speed 2200 and 2600 due to increase torque. An obvious shown in the figure is that the maximum pressure rise rate is strictly …show more content…

4.3 Brake Specific Fuel Consumption (BSFC) and Brake thermal efficiency
The effect of n-butanol/diesel fuel blends on the brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) and brake thermal efficiency (BTE) with the variety of engine speed are illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, respectively. It was observed that all BA-diesel fuel blends slightly increased the BSFC and the BTE at all BA blend ratios. The result indicated that BSFC increases as engine speed resulting in almost all engine speed due to the lower heating value of BA (31.4MJ/kg) compared with the heating value of diesel (41.3MJ/kg). Generally, the engine consumes more fuel with n-butanol/diesel fuel blends comparing with reference diesel fuel to generate the same engine output torque because of the lower heat content of the fuel blends. As would expected, the BSFC increases with the increasing BA content in the fuel blends because of the decreased energy content. This increment in BSFC is similar trends that were reported in Refs. [20, 23, 24].

In spite of the fact that higher BSFC of n-butanol/diesel fuel the enhancement, oxygen content of the fuel blends gives higher BTE. The improvement in BTE can be referred to the enhanced oxygen content, which helps improvement in combustion, particularly during the diffusion combustion phase. Another influence factor that affects the BTE is cetane number. Lower cetane number of the BA-diesel fuel blends causes of the

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