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Performance improvement of a portable electric generator using an optimized bio-fuel ratio in a single cylinder two-stroke engine


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Misron, Norhisam and Rizuan, Suhairi and Vaithilingam, Aravind and Mailah, Nashiren Farzilah and Tsuyoshi, Hanamoto and Hiroaki, Yamada and Yoshihito, Shirai (2011) Performance improvement of a portable electric generator using an optimized bio-fuel ratio in a single cylinder two-stroke engine. Energies, 4 (11). pp. 1937-1949. ISSN 1996-1073

Abstract

The performance of an electrical generator using bio-fuel and gasoline blends of different composition as fuel in a single cylinder engine is presented. The effect of an optimized blend ratio of bio-fuel with gasoline on engine performance improvement and thereby on the electrical generator output is studied. Bio-fuels such as ethanol, butanol and methanol are blended with gasoline in different proportions and evaluated for performance. The effects of different bio-fuel/gasoline blending ratios are compared experimentally with that of the gasoline alone using the output power developed by the electric generator as the evaluation parameter. With a composition of 10% ethanol–gasoline, the engine performance is increased up to 6% and with a blending ratio of 20% butanol–gasoline the performance is increased up to 8% compared to the use of 100% gasoline. The investigations are performed on a portable generator used in palm tree harvesting applications.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.3390/en4111937
Publisher: MDPI
Keywords: Generator output power; Optimized blending ratio; Bio-fuel
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 26 Nov 2015 06:07
Last Modified: 26 Nov 2015 06:07
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22893
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