Effect of engine oil dilution by waste ayurvedic oil biodiesel on tribological behavior of liner-ring tribo pair material. Issue 1 (October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Balakumar, R.; Sriram, G.; Arumugam, S.
• Is Part Of: IOP conference series. Volume 954:Issue 1(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-10
• Subjects: waste ayurvedic oil biodiesel -- ultrasonication -- fuel from waste -- pin on disc; Materials science -- Periodicals; 620.1105
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/954/1/012042
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-8981

Abstract

Abstract: The fastest exhaustion of petroleum-based fossil fuels and its ever-ending environmental issues which scares the researchers to search for the alternate source for commercial diesel fuel. In this way, the biodiesel as an alternate fuel plays an important role in a diesel engine. There are many vegetables were used as a biodiesel feedstock, the utilization of waste feedstock as a biodiesel resource will be the prime importance in the reduction of waste management followed by its dumping processes in the earth surface. The present experimental investigation is used to examine the utilization of waste ayurvedic oil (WAO) biodiesel blends diluted in the synthetic oil and its tribological study using pin on disc tribometer under standard test conditions. The ultrasound irradiation assisted transesterification process method is employed in the conversion of waste ayurvedic oil in to WAO methyl ester (WAOME). Then the WAOME was added with diesel fuel to form the biodiesel blends and named as B10, B15 and B20. In addition to this, the blends were contaminated with synthetic lubrication oil (SAE20W40) to study the dilution effects of the biodiesel. The real-time cylinder liner-ring tribopair materials were used for the investigation. The experimental results reveal that, the tribological behavior i.e., lower co-efficient of friction and wear was observed with WAO20 biodiesel blend than other biodiesel blends and diesel fuel.