Study and optimize the effect of the solvent content in the diesel mixture on the performance of diesel engine

• Main Authors: Ibrahim, Ahmmed Saadi, Said, Mohammed, Mohammed, Malik, Nijris, Osama Nadhom
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Additives; Diesel engines; Diesel fuels; Ethanol; Heptanes; Methanol; Optimization; Parameters; Temperature; Toluene; Xylene
• ISSN: 0094-243X; 1551-7616
• DOI: 10.1063/5.0121741

This study presents to increase the quality of diesel fuel depends on five additives as input parameters (methanol, ethanol, toluene, xylene and n-heptane) on pour point and cloud point temperatures of diesel fuel. The simplex optimal method is used to make interaction between inputs and output parameters to find the optimum conditions to increase the performance of diesel fuel. Optimization study was employed and based on experimental results to examine the effects of five various additives on pour point and cloud point temperatures of diesel fuel. Different volume percentage of additives blended with diesel were intended to make relation between pour point, cloud point temperatures and volume percentage additives using ASTM D5771 and ASTM D5950 to calculate cloud point and pour point temperatures respectively. Most active performance of the additive for cloud point temperature of diesel was methanol to reduce the cloud point temperature from 0 oC to -10 oC at 20 percentage volume of methanol. Ethanol has main active outcomes on pour point temperature due to reduce it from -5oC to -46oC. Optimize technique is employed to increase the efficiency of results for pour point and cloud point temperatures to –14.7oC and -52.1oC respectively. However, many studies are required to confirm with the results of this study using this active technique.