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Amit R Patil1, S A Patil2, Rupali Patil3
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, M. E. S. College of Engineering, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, MS, India.
Abstract:
The primary focus of this study is the validation of composite additives with the help of additional optimization methods and the analysis of its effect on the combustion characteristics of compression ignition (CI) engines. Previous work on the identification of the correct multi additive combination by Taguchi and the TOPSIS optimization method has shown substantial improvements in the performance and emission characteristics of CI engines. The same work was extended using the GRA Optimization method with the Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) optimization technique known as the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to validate the optimization results from the previous optimization work. Remarkably, all optimization methods yielded consistent results, pointing to the superiority of the composite additive sample 'D8EH6E4 hence supporting the outcome of previous work. Subsequent testing and comparison of this novel composite additive with baseline diesel fuel for combustion characteristics analysis demonstrated notable improvements in combustion parameters, including a 25 % reduction in the rate of pressure rise, an 18 % decrease in net heat release rate, and a 6 % decrease in mean gas temperature.
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