Power and Exhaust Gas Characteristics of Small Type Diesel Engine Using Transesterified Waste Vegetable Oil (Part 1)

Comparison of transesterified oil with light oil as fuels

Abstract

Study was conducted to investigate the power and exhaust emission characteristics of a small diesel engine when fueled by two different kinds of fuels. In this study, light oil, and waste vegetable oil transesterified by ethanol were used as fuels and engine performances were tested. From the experiments, it became clear that the transesterified oil was more effective particularly in reducing the exhaust emissions than light oil. At the same time, the transesterified oil did not show any inferior performance in the power test to the light oil.