Study the Performance of Algae Oil in Diesel Engine with Various Injection Pressure

In the recent years, vehicle population increased enormously which increases the demand of fossil fuel. The availability of crude oil supply decreases continuously, these reasons makes the researchers to find new renewable alternative fuel especially biofuels. Some of the vegetable plants like neem, karanja, rapeseed, jatropha, soabean, etc. were already found as successful production of biodiesel. But the problems in these sources were the land availability. Still, it has been reported that the use of biodiesel considerably reduced emission and increase the performance of the engine. The most promising method for the production of biodiesel is transesterification process. Now-a-days researchers have reported the possibility for the production of biodiesel from algae oil because of its high lipid content in nature. In the present study, algae methyl ester is used as the biodiesel in the direct injection (DI) diesel engine. The general optimum biodiesel blend AME20 (diesel 80% and algae methyl ester 20%) was taken for the experiment. The injection pressure of the engine has been varied from 210 bar to 230 bar in the steps of 10 bar. The result of experimental investigation reported that the change in injection pressure with AME20 shows the better performance in the diesel engine as well as reduced the emission characteristics.