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BULETINUL INSTITUTULUI POLITEHNIC DIN IAŞI<br />

Publicat de<br />

<strong>Universitatea</strong> <strong>Tehnică</strong> „Gheorghe Asachi“ <strong>din</strong> Iaşi,<br />

Tomul LVIII (LXII), Fasc. 4, 2012<br />

Secţia<br />

CONSTRUCŢII DE MAŞINI<br />

MIXING RULES FOR PREDICTING THE IGNITION<br />

PROPERTIES OF AUTOMOTIVE DIESEL ENGINE FUELS<br />

BY<br />

ANCA ELENA ELIZA STERPU* and ANCA IULIANA DUMITRU<br />

Received: March 30, 2012<br />

Accepted for publication: April 14, 2012<br />

”OVIDIUS” University, Constanţa,<br />

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering<br />

Abstract. Biodiesel can be defined as fatty acid alkyl esters from<br />

vegetable oils or animal fats for using as fuel in diesel engines and heating<br />

systems due to its technical, environmental and strategic advantages. Because<br />

its physical properties and chemical composition are distinctly different from<br />

conventional diesel fuel, biodiesel can alter the fuel injection and ignition<br />

processes whether neat or in blends. Most research on computational<br />

combustion presents complex mathematical models where the fuel physical<br />

properties are important parameters.<br />

The aim of this study is to present the importance of the physical<br />

properties and their relation to the internal combustion engine and also<br />

proposing a method to determine the volumetric proportion of biodiesel<br />

which will have efficient combustion in compression engines. For this<br />

purpose, the basic properties (density, viscosity, flash point, heating value,<br />

calculated cetane index and three different points of the distillation curve:<br />

T10, T50 and T90) of several rapeseed (Canola) oil biodiesel–diesel fuel<br />

blends (B0, B5, B10, B15, B20, and B100) were measured accor<strong>din</strong>g to the<br />

correspon<strong>din</strong>g ASTM standards. In order to predict these properties, mixing<br />

rules are estimated as a function of the volume fraction of biodiesel in the<br />

blend.<br />

Key words: automotive diesel engine, ignition characteristics,<br />

biodiesel–diesel blends, calculated cetane index.<br />

* Correspon<strong>din</strong>g author: e-mail: asterpu@univ-ovidius.ro

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