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A Comparative Study on Some Methods to Use Tyre Pyrolysis Oil as an Alternative Fuel in a DI Diesel Engine

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Recycling of waste automobile tyres is of great interest today, because recycling offers potential products for further use in different applications. Tyre pyrolysis oil (TPO) is one of the principal products obtained when waste automobile tyres are subjected to pyrolysis process. This paper describes some possible methods of using TPO as an alternative fuel in a direct injection (DI) diesel engine. The results indicated that TPO-based fuel blended with diesel fuel (DF) improvement by desulphurisation and distillation gave better results in terms of combustion, performance and emission parameters than those of diesel fuel operation. But, TPO can be used only up to 90% in the form of blend with DF, even after improving its fuel quality. The TPO can be used solely as a fuel in the diesel engine by running the engine on a dual fuel mode. The combustion, performance and emission parameters of the engine run on TPO-based fuels on different methods are analysed, compared with those of diesel fuel operation in the same engine and presented in this paper.

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This paper has been elaborated in the framework of the project new creative teams in priorities of scientific research, reg. no. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0055, supported by Operational Programme Education for Competitiveness and cofinanced by the European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India

    Sivalingam Murugan & Bohumil Horak

  2. Development Engineer, AVL MTC AB, Haninge, Sweden

    Hariharan Sundaramoorthi

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India

    Govindan Nagarajan

  4. Department of Biomedical and Cybernatics, VSB Technical University, Ostrava, Czech Republic

    Sivalingam Murugan & Bohumil Horak

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Murugan, S., Sundaramoorthi, H., Nagarajan, G., Horak, B. (2018). A Comparative Study on Some Methods to Use Tyre Pyrolysis Oil as an Alternative Fuel in a DI Diesel Engine. In: Aloui, F., Dincer, I. (eds) Exergy for A Better Environment and Improved Sustainability 2. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62575-1_29

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