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Item Performance Testing of Diesel Engine using Cardanol-Kerosene oil blend(EDP Sciences edps@edpsciences.com, 2018) Ravindra, n.; Mangalpady, M.; Harsha, V.Awareness of environmental pollution and fossil fuel depletion has necessitated the use of biofuels in engines which have a relatively cleaner emissions. Cardanol is a biofuel, abundantly available in India, which is a by-product of cashew processing industries. In this study performance of raw Cardanol blended with kerosene has been tested in diesel engine. Volumetric blend BK30 (30% kerosene and 70% Cardanol) has been used for the test. The properties like flash point, viscosity and calorific value of the blend have been determined. The test was carried out in four stroke diesel engine connected with an eddy current dynamometer. Performance of the engine has been analysed by finding the brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) and brake thermal efficiency (BTE). The results showed that the brake thermal efficiency of the blend is 29.87%, with less CO and smoke emission compared to diesel. The results were also compared with the performance of Cardanol diesel blend and Cardanol camphor oil blend, which were already tested in diesel engines by other researchers. Earlier research work reveals that the blend of 30% camphor oil and 70% Cardanol performs very closer to diesel fuel with a thermal efficiency of 29.1%. Similarly, higher brake thermal efficiency was obtained for 20% Cardanol and 80% diesel blend. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018.Item Effect of injection pressure on output of a CI engine fuelled with raw Cardanol and kerosene blends(Elsevier Ltd, 2023) Ravindra, n.; Mangalpady, M.; Vardhan, H.This study was aimed towards the investigation of effect of injection pressure on the performance of a CI engine run with various blends of raw Cardanol and kerosene. Three different volumetric blends of kerosene and cardanol (i.e., BK40, BK30 and BK20) were tested in diesel engine at 180 bar, 200 bar and 220 bar injection pressure. The results of the study indicated that at increased injection pressure brake thermal efficiency (BTE) increased with reduction in brake specific fuel consumption, unburned hydrocarbon and smoke. The maximum thermal efficiency of 31.34% was observed for BK30 blend at 220 bar and it was 31.97% for diesel fuel. Hence, this study reveals that kerosene cardanol blend can be used as CI engine fuel with proper tuning of injection parameters. © © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.