Estimation method of heating value properties on variations of alcohol-gasoline blends and volume percentages / Muhammad Syarifuddin Mohamed Zaharin ...[et al.]

Mohamed Zaharin, Muhammad Syarifuddin and Abdullah, Nik Rosli and Badrulhisam, Najmi Haziq and Hamzah, Fazlena and Majeed Ali, Obed (2018) Estimation method of heating value properties on variations of alcohol-gasoline blends and volume percentages / Muhammad Syarifuddin Mohamed Zaharin ...[et al.]. Journal of Mechanical Engineering (JMechE), SI 5 (2). pp. 20-35. ISSN 18235514

Abstract

Heating value has been one of the important properties of gasoline surrogate fuel being investigated for thermal conversion system inside combustion cylinder. Alternative fuel yielded from biomass is expected to have lower energy content than baseline fuel (gasoline), as several factors were analysed such as molecular structure and carbon contents. Qualifying fuel’s heating value properties can serve the researchers who work on different alternative fuels to indicate the fuel suitability for spark-ignition engines according to fuel standards. This research work was conducted to study the effects of alcohol blends (methanol, ethanol and iso-butanol) at different volume percentages (0-25%) with an interval of 2.5% on the heating value of gasoline fuel. A non-linear relationship was observed for heating value of each fuel blend generated from statistical polynomial regressions with the highest order of two. Polynomial equations derived were expected to be highly accurate in estimating the properties of heating value of the fuel blends as the coefficient of determination obtained for methanol, ethanol and iso-butanol blends were 0.9445, 0.9691 and 0.692, respectively. Analysis based on the percentage error was done using average absolute error and average bias error with those blends producing lower than 2% error. The estimation model is suggested to be used as it produces highly accurate and precise results for the alcohol-gasoline blends.

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Mohamed Zaharin, Muhammad Syarifuddin
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Abdullah, Nik Rosli
nikrosli@salam.uitm.edu.my
Badrulhisam, Najmi Haziq
UNSPECIFIED
Hamzah, Fazlena
UNSPECIFIED
Majeed Ali, Obed
UNSPECIFIED
Subjects: T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery > Heat engines
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam > Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Mechanical Engineering (JMechE)
UiTM Journal Collections: UiTM Journal > Journal of Mechanical Engineering (JMechE)
ISSN: 18235514
Volume: SI 5
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 20-35
Keywords: estimation method; alcohol-gasoline blends; physicochemical properties; heating value, combustion characteristics.
Date: 2018
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/39368
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