Performance characteristics of a single-cylinder power tiller engine with biodiesel produced from mixed waste cooking oil

• Published in: Korean Journal of Agricultural Science Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 29 - 41
• Main Authors: Choi, Hwon, Woo, Duk Gam, Kim, Tae Han
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 충남대학교 농업과학연구소 2020; 농업과학연구소
• Subjects: 농학; engine performance; wasted cooking oil; transesterification; biodiesel
• ISSN: 2466-2402; 2466-2410
• DOI: 10.7744/kjoas.20190085

Biodiesel is a clean energy resource that can replace diesel as fuel, which can be used without any structural changes to the engine. Vegetable oil accounts for 95 percent of the raw materials used to produce biodiesel. Thus, many problems can arise, such as rising prices of food resources and an imbalance between supply and demand. Most of the previous studies using waste cooking oil used waste cooking oil from a single material. However, the waste cooking oil that is actually collected is a mixture of various types of waste cooking oil. Therefore, in this study, biodiesel produced with mixed waste cooking oil was supplied to an agricultural single-cylinder diesel engine to assess its potential as an alternative fuel. Based on the results, the brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) increased compared to diesel, and the axis power decreased to between 70 and 99% compared to the diesel. For emissions, NOx and CO2 were increased, but CO and HC were decreased by up to 1 to 7% and 16 to 48%, respectively, compared to diesel. The emission characteristics of the mixed waste cooking oil biodiesel used in this study were shown to be similar to those of conventional vegetable biodiesel, confirming its potential as a fuel for mixed waste cooking oil biodiesel.