Effect of carbon dioxide on the performance of biogas/diesel duel-fuel engine

Saiful Bari

Renewable Energy, 1996, vol. 9, issue 1, 1007-1010

Abstract: Methane and carbon dioxide are the two main constituents of biogas. Biogas also contains traces of nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen and hydrogen sulphide. When diesel engine runs on biogas, the combustion is poor as compared to diesel fuel. One of the reason of poor combustion is the presence of carbon dioxide in the biogas. Percentage of methane and carbon dioxide in biogas varies with the maturities of feed stock, temperature, water content, loading rate of raw material and bacterial actions. This paper examines the effect of variations of carbon dioxide in biogas on the performance of the engine to simulate the performance of the engine running with biogas from different sources (varying proportion of methane and carbon dioxide).

Keywords: Biogas; natural gas; carbon dioxide; dual-fuel diesel engine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1016/0960-1481(96)88450-3

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