ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Chemical Characterization of Exhaust Gases
from Compression Ignition Engine Fuelled
with Various Biofuels
Małgorzata Odziemkowska1, Joanna Czarnocka1, Andrzej Frankiewicz1, Małgorzata Szewczyńska2, Anna Lankoff3, Joanna Gromadzka-Ostrowska4, Remigiusz Mruk4
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1Automotive Industry Institute, 55 Jagiellońska Str., 03-301 Warsaw, Poland
2Central Institute for Labour Protection - National Research Institute,
16 Czerniakowska Str., 00-701 Warsaw, Poland
3Jan Kochanowski University, 15 Świętokrzyska Str., 25-410 Kielce, Poland
4Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 166 Nowoursynowska Str., 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Submission date: 2016-08-09
Final revision date: 2016-12-19
Acceptance date: 2016-12-20
Online publication date: 2017-04-27
Publication date: 2017-05-26
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2017;26(3):1183-1190
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The authors have examined the influence of biocomponents of different origin on exhaust gases emitted
from a light duty vehicle with a compression ignition engine. The car was fuelled with diesel fuel containing
20% V/V fatty acid methyl esters and diesel fuel with 13% V/V hydrotreated vegetable oils and 7% V/V
fatty acid methyl esters. Commercial diesel fuel containing 7% V/V esters was a reference. The tests were
performed on the chassis dynamometer in static engine operating conditions. It was stated that the addition
of mentioned biocomponents into diesel fuel slightly changed the concentration of regulated components in
exhaust gases with/without after-treatment devices. The presence of bio-components has reduced nitrogen
oxide concentration in the treated exhaust gases as compared to the commercial diesel. We observed no trends
of changes in unburned hydrocarbon concentrations depending on the type of tested fuels and presence of
the diesel particle filter. Unburned hydrocarbons consisted mainly of fractions containing up to five carbon
atoms per molecule. Whatever the type of fuel examined, carbonyl compounds such as formaldehyde and
acetaldehyde were found only in the untreated exhaust gases.