ENGINE DURABILITY TESTS WITH SUNFLOWER OIL IN AN INDIRECT INJECTION DIESEL ENGINE

Various reports have shown that plant oils can power diesel engines, but unmodified direct injection engines coke up when operated on these fuels for any length of time. Indirect injection engines are known to be more tolerant of fuel quality and a research programme to test the long-term durability of such an engine with sunflower oil as fuel was launched. The successful results of this test programme which led to the manufacturer extending the warranty on this engine to cover this type of fuel are presented.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • International Off-Highway Meeting and Exposition Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 12-15, 1983.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

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• Authors:
  • Hawkins, C S
  • Fuls, J
  • Hugo, FJC
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 4 p.
• Serial:
  • SAE Technical Paper
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
  • ISSN: 0148-7191
  • EISSN: 2688-3627
  • Serial URL: http://papers.sae.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Diesel engines; Durability; Engine performance; Fuel injection; Fuels; Oils; Testing; Vegetable oils
• Uncontrolled Terms: Sunflower seed oil
• Old TRIS Terms: Indirect injection
• Subject Areas: Energy; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00381908
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAE 831357, HS-036 052
• Files: HSL, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 30 1984 12:00AM