Exergetic performance evaluation of a diesel engine powered by diesel/biodiesel mixtures containing oxygenated additive ethylene glycol diacetate

A diesel engine running on diesel/biodiesel mixtures containing ethylene glycol diacetate (EGDA) was investigated from the exergoeconomic and exergoenvironmental viewpoints. Biodiesel was mixed with petrodiesel at 5% and 20% volume ratios, and the resultant mixtures were then doped with EGDA at 1–3%...

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Published in:The Science of the total environment 2021-10, Vol.792, p.148435-148435, Article 148435
Main Authors: Amid, Sama, Aghbashlo, Mortaza, Peng, Wanxi, Hajiahmad, Ali, Najafi, Bahman, Ghaziaskar, Hassan S., Rastegari, Hajar, Mohammadi, Pouya, Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha, Homa, Lam, Su Shiung, Tabatabaei, Meisam
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Language:English
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Diesel/biodiesel engine
Economic analysis
Environmental assessment
Ethylene glycol diacetate
Exergy analysis
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Summary:A diesel engine running on diesel/biodiesel mixtures containing ethylene glycol diacetate (EGDA) was investigated from the exergoeconomic and exergoenvironmental viewpoints. Biodiesel was mixed with petrodiesel at 5% and 20% volume ratios, and the resultant mixtures were then doped with EGDA at 1–3% volume ratios. The exergetic sustainability indicators of the engine operating on the prepared fuel formulations were determined at varying engine loads. The indicators were selected to support decision-making on fuel composition and engine load following thermodynamic, economic, and environmental considerations. The engine load markedly affected all the studied exergetic parameters. The highest engine exergetic efficiency (39.5%) was obtained for petrodiesel doped with 1 v/v% EGDA at the engine load of 50%. The minimum value of the unit cost of brake power exergy (49.6 US$/GJ) was found for straight petrodiesel at full-load conditions, while the minimum value of the unit environmental impact of brake power exergy (29.9 mPts/GJ) was observed for petrodiesel mixed with 5 v/v% biodiesel at the engine load of 75%. Overall, adding EGDA to fuel mixtures did not favorably influence the outcomes of both exergetic methods due to its energy-intensive and cost-prohibitive production process. In conclusion, although petrodiesel fuel improvers such EGDA used in the present study could properly mitigate pollutant emissions, the adverse effects of such additives on thermodynamic parameters of diesel engines, particularly on exergoeconomic and exergoenvironmental indices, need to be taken into account, and necessary optimizations should be made before their real-world application. [Display omitted] •A diesel/biodiesel engine fueled with ethylene glycol diacetate was exergetically studied.•The exergy, economic, and environmental indicators did not unanimously indicate a similar trend.•The applied oxygenated additive did not favorably affect all the exergetic indices of the engine.•The production costs and environmental burdens of the additive should be lowered before its commercialization.•Standard exergy and discrete emission analyses were not enough to decide on the sustainability of diesel engines.
ISSN:0048-9697
1879-1026
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148435