The Effect of the Fuel Performance Catalyst on South African Diesel Engines

The Effect of the Fuel Performance Catalyst on South African Diesel Engines PDF Author: Molelekoa James Mosesane
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Book Description
The increasing cost of petroleum fuels (petro-fuels) and fuel consumption worldwide has inspired numerous developments of cheaper and greener alternative fuel economies in various countries. Likewise, this work focuses on the investigation of a homogeneous combustion catalyst, the Fuel Performance Catalyst (FPC) as a supplement to petro-diesel, biodiesels and the respective blends for applications in South African UD engine trucks. The FPC is a ferrous picrate-water-butanol mixture, infused with stabilisers of short-chained alkali benzenes (xylenes and tetra-methyl benzenes). This work addresses a gap in knowledge on the influence of the FPC on fuel (biodiesel, petro-diesel and biodiesel-petro-diesel blends (B0, B10, B20, B30, B100)) physicochemical properties (density, viscosity, pour point and flash point) and its fuel saving capacity.