Comparative study on fuel properties of raw Tyre Pyrolysis oil with HSD

Abstract

Prices of the fuel are going up and up with very high rate and also there is shortage of international crude oil supply due to many reasons. There is an urgent need to find out the substitute for crude petroleum oil to fulfill the highly increasing fuel demand. Taking in to consideration the above points the research was carried out in the bioenergy lab of Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering., College of Technology, G.B. Pant University Pantnagar. The two different raw tyre pyrolysis oil samples obtained from waste scrap tyre from different location was selected to compare its fuel properties with high speed diesel oil for its use in the CI Engine. The fuel properties raw tyre pyrolysis and high speed diesel oil like moisture content, relative density, kinematic viscosity, high heat value, ash content, carbon residue, flash point, fire point, pH, copper strip corrosion were determined to check the compatibility with high speed diesel. Result shows that there was much variation in the fuel properties of raw tyre pyrolysis oil as compare to high speed diesel. Hence its requires further purification to bring nearly close the fuel properties of raw tyre pyrolysis oil to high speed diesel (HSD).