TY - GEN
T1 - Comparison between tri-fuel (diesel-ethanol-biodiesel) emulsion with and without surfactant
AU - Bahrudin, M. Nazrul H.M.
AU - Mukhtar, A. N.
AU - Hagos, Ftwi Y.
AU - Mamat, Rizalman
AU - Abdullah, A. Adam
AU - Karim, Zainal Ambri Abdul
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was conducted under the financial support of Universiti Malaysia Pahang with the internal grant under account PGRS180344 and Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education through the grant number FRGS/1/2015/TK07/UMP/02/2.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Author(s).
PY - 2019/1/11
Y1 - 2019/1/11
N2 - In this project, the overall activities were carried out to compare tri-fuel (diesel-ethanol-biodiesel) emulsions with and without surfactant (Tween 80 and Span 80) in term of stability and physiochemical properties (density, calorific value, surface tension and kinematic viscosity) characteristics. Potential benefit includes micro- explosion phenomenon through mixing diesel fuel and alcohol has inspired researcher to find solution for immiscibility issue. Furthermore, biodiesel add-on apart from as oxygen source, the expectation will be to act as natural surfactant. The effectiveness of biodiesel in the absence of surfactant however is dubious while additional potential benefits compose with surfactant is unfamiliar. Hence, the objective of the study was to compare side by side, tri-fuel emulsion with and without surfactant in term of physicochemical properties. In this study, alternative fuel for CI engine called tri-fuel emulsions were prepared using Hielscher Ultrasonic Processor UP400S. The result of stability study revealed that tri-fuel emulsions with surfactant show promising stability reading compared to the tri-fuel emulsion without surfactant. Evidence was identified by having lower phase separation height and slower phase separation formation. Composition with 5% of ethanol content (D85E5B10) proves to be the best in term of physiochemical properties compared to other composition either with or without surfactant. However, the addition of surfactant in D85E5B10 shows more optimum properties.
AB - In this project, the overall activities were carried out to compare tri-fuel (diesel-ethanol-biodiesel) emulsions with and without surfactant (Tween 80 and Span 80) in term of stability and physiochemical properties (density, calorific value, surface tension and kinematic viscosity) characteristics. Potential benefit includes micro- explosion phenomenon through mixing diesel fuel and alcohol has inspired researcher to find solution for immiscibility issue. Furthermore, biodiesel add-on apart from as oxygen source, the expectation will be to act as natural surfactant. The effectiveness of biodiesel in the absence of surfactant however is dubious while additional potential benefits compose with surfactant is unfamiliar. Hence, the objective of the study was to compare side by side, tri-fuel emulsion with and without surfactant in term of physicochemical properties. In this study, alternative fuel for CI engine called tri-fuel emulsions were prepared using Hielscher Ultrasonic Processor UP400S. The result of stability study revealed that tri-fuel emulsions with surfactant show promising stability reading compared to the tri-fuel emulsion without surfactant. Evidence was identified by having lower phase separation height and slower phase separation formation. Composition with 5% of ethanol content (D85E5B10) proves to be the best in term of physiochemical properties compared to other composition either with or without surfactant. However, the addition of surfactant in D85E5B10 shows more optimum properties.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.5085999
DO - 10.1063/1.5085999
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85060457338
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Automotive Innovation Green Energy Vehicle, AiGEV 2018
A2 - Hamzah, Wan Azmi Wan
A2 - Ghani, Saiful Anwar Che
A2 - Sani, Mohd. Shahrir Mohd
A2 - Abdullah, Abdul Adam
PB - American Institute of Physics Inc.
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Automotive Innovation Green Energy Vehicle, AiGEV 2018
Y2 - 25 July 2018 through 26 July 2018
ER -