B.

Tech Final Year Project

Presentation on
PERFORMANCE STUDY OF
METHANOL BLENDED PETROL IN SI ENGINE

Presented By: Under The Guidance of

G.Pavan Yathindra(BT15MEC025) Dr. Sukanta Roga, Asst. Prof.
K.V.S.K.Abhinash(BT15MEC037)

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
Nagpur, India
 INTRODUCTION
• Methanol can be produced from natural gas and coal gasification or
biomass. Methanol has a high octane content than gasoline. This
allows for a machine that uses methanol as a fuel has a higher
compression ratio, and increase thermal efficiency.
• Compared with gasoline, methanol has several characteristics that is
high octane content, lower boiling point, velocity rapid fire, high
oxygen content .
• methanol can be injected, can be mixed and simple chemical
structure, so that all of these things help to reduce CO and
hydrocarbon (HC emissions)
• Octane content fuel increases with increasing amount of methanol
in the fuel blend.
 OBJECTIVES
• To prepare the methanol blended gasoline samples,(M5,M10,M15,M20)

• To find the different fuel properties of blends.

• To find the calorific values of blended samples which are

M5,M10,M15,M20.

• Using(gasoline+methanol)blends in IC engine and find the Performance

parameters of engine like Break power, Break specific fuel consumption,
Break specific fuel energy …etc.

• comparing the above parameters with when only gasoline is used as fuel.

• Checking for the engine emissions like CO,NOX,HC..etc.

• Comparing these emissions content with the emissions which are

released when gasoline alone used in engine
 EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY FOR
FINDING CV:
Finding the calorific value of liquid:
• A 100ml round bottom flask was weighed empty in
grams, and was filled with 100 ml water of and
reweighed in grams.
• 20ml of the alcohol fuel is measured with a pipette
and poured into a reagent bottle and this was
weighed in grams (g).
• The reagent bottle is placed under the round
bottom flask and the alcohol fuel is lit and allowed
to heat up the water in the round bottom flask.
• The reagent bottle is now reweighed in order to get
the weight of the reagent bottle after combustion.
• This weight is now subtracted from the previous weight
of the reagent bottle and with this; the mass of fuel
burned was obtained.
• In order to calculate the heat of combustion of the
alcohol, the heat, q, is calculated using the formula:
q = mCΔT ………………………….. (1)

• The ‘m’ above is the mass of water that is heated; ‘Cp’

is the specific heat capacity of water and has a value of
4.18kJ/kgoC and ‘ΔT’ is the change in temperature of
the water as it is heated. Dividing equation 1 above by
mass of fuel burnt, gives the heat of combustion.
q = mCpΔT/Kg ..……………………. (2)
S.NO BLEND TYPE CALORIFIC VALUE(KJ/KG) MASS OF THE FUEL
BURNT(GMS)

1. PURE GASOLINE 69.4 12.04

2. M5 68.48 12.20

3. M10 68.17 12.25

4. M15 68.09 12.29

5. M20 68.00 12.31

S.NO BLEND TYPE CALORIFIC VALUE(KJ/KG) MASS OF THE FUEL
BURNT(GMS)

1. PURE GASOLINE 69.8 11.97

2. M5 68.56 12.19

3. M10 68.31 12.23

4. M15 68.23 12.25

5. M20 67.8 12.33

• Calorific value= (m*cp*dt)/mf (KJ/KG)
m-mass of water
cp-specific heat of water
dt-temp difference
mf-mass of fuel burnt
 SAMPLE-1
• For gasoline:
CV=(0.1*4.18*2)/ 12.04 =69.4
• For m5:
CV=(0.1*4.18*2)/ 12.20 =68.48
• For m10:
CV=(0.1*4.18*2)/ 12.25 =68.17
• For m15:
CV=(0.1*4.18*2)/12.29 =68.09
• For m20:
CV=(0.1*4.18*2)/12.31 =68
 SAMPLE-2
• For gasoline:
CV=(0.1*4.18*2)/11.97 =69.8
• For m5:
CV=(0.1*4.18*2)/ 12.19 =68.56
• For m10:
CV=(0.1*4.18*2)/ 12.23 =68.31
• For m15:
CV=(0.1*4.18*2)/ 12.25 =68.23
• For m20:
CV=(0.1*4.18*2)/ 12.33 =67.8
S.NO BLEND TYPE CALORIFIC VALUE(KJ/KG) MASS OF THE FUEL
BURNT(GMS)

1. PURE GASOLINE 69.6 12.00

2. M5 68.52 12.20

3. M10 68.24 12.25

4. M15 68.16 12.29

5. M20 67.9 12.31

 CONCLUSION:
• As methanol content in sample increases, its
Calorific value decreases.
• As a result of this more fuel to be burnt to
produce the same amount of energy.

REFERENCES:
• Okoro et al. Int. J.Res. Chem.Environ.Vol2 Issue 2 April
2012(102-105)
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CONTENTS AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY

INTRODUCTION ……….

LITERATURE ……..
REVIEW

OBJECTIVES …….

METHODOLOGY ………….. ……….

EXP ANALYSIS ………. ………..

RESULTS

REPORT ………..
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