Mubarak .M

MEA Engineering College · Mechanical Engineering

The first edition of the conference was conducted in 2020 which included 240+ authors from various parts of the world during 2020. Best papers were published in CARE Journals (Revised Version of Full length paper after peer review). The main purpose of the conference is to disseminate and popularize the recent advancements in the field of Design, M...

In this work, biodiesel produced from an aquatic weed, Salvinia molesta in the blended form was tested as fuel in single cylinder diesel engine. The properties of S. molesta biodiesel and its blends were measured and compared with diesel. A water-cooled single cylinder diesel engine coupled with eddy current dynamometer was used for experimental wo...

Dear Sir/Madam, Greetings from MEA Engineering College, Perinthalmanna, Kerala We are delighted to inform you that Department of Mechanical Engineering, MEA Engineering College, Perinthalmanna is organizing Virtual International Conference on “Advanced Technologies and Research in Mechanical Engineering” (VICATRME’20 to be held from 26-28th Octob...

Microalgae are considered as a promising feedstock for biodiesel production due to their faster growth rate, higher biomass productivity and lipid content which ranges from 20 to 50% of its dry weight. In this work, optimization of bold basal media (BBM) for the production of Chlorella pyrenoidosa are studied with central composite design (CCD) usi...

The cultivation of microalgae in bubble column photobioreactors is essential to improve the biomass productivity for biofuel production. This work comprises the design and fabrication of bubble column photobioreactor of 20 L culture volume for the cultivation of Chlorella pyrenoidosa. The theoretically parameters such as gas hold up and volumetric...

In this work, Waste Cooking Oil was used as fuel in standard and low heat rejection diesel engines. The experiments were conducted in standard and low heat rejection engine to measure the performance, emission and combustion characteristics using waste cooking oil and diesel as fuels. The brake thermal efficiency was found to be 26.5% for low heat...

Microalgae are considered the most suitable feedstock for biodiesel production due to their higher areal productivity and lipid content. The economical production of biofuels from microalgae is important. This paper is a review of different techniques used for flocculating microalgae such as use of inorganic salts, organic salts, bioflocculants, au...

Overview of the special issue: Due to fast industrialization and increasing population, large quantities of wastes are being generated in different forms such as-solid, liquid, sludge and gases. These wastes includes agriculture wastes and crop residues, excreta from animals, slaughterhouse waste, organic household waste, waste water, wood processi...

Rapid depletion of world's crude oil reserve, rising global energy demand and concerns about greenhouse gases emission have led to the high-level interest in biofuels. The biofuel, bioethanol is found as an alternative fuel for SI engines as it has similar properties those of gasoline. Higher areal productivity with fast growth rate of microalgae a...

Microalgae are considered as a promising alternative source for biodiesel due to its ability to grow rapidly, synthesize and accumulate large amount of lipids. The economic production of biodiesel requires efficient extraction of lipid from microalgae. In this work, the various pre-treatment methods required before extraction of lipid from dried C....

This paper aims to develop a theoretical model for growth of microalgae Chlorella pyrenoidosa in a tubular photobioreactor combining the effect of photo-limitation, culture temperature and flow velocity. The objective is to estimate the effect of these parameters on total biomass production in a tubular photobioreactor. The motivation of this study...

Biodiesel is considered as one of the promising alternative fuels for diesel engines due its renewability and environment friendly nature. As the process of lipid extraction from the biomass consumes about 90% of the total energy spent for biodiesel production, an efficient and economic method is very important. The amount of lipid extracted from t...

The higher areal productivity and lipid content of microalgae and aquatic weed makes them the best alternative feedstocks for biodiesel production. Hence, an efficient and economic method of extracting lipid or oil from aquatic weed, Salvinia molesta is an important step towards biodiesel production. Since Salvinia molesta is an unexplored feedstoc...

Around the world, public transportation systems are switching to hydrogen-fueled engines as an emissions-free alternative to gasoline and diesel. However, most hydrogen available today is inefficiently generated from nonrenewable fossil fuels such as natural gas. An attempt is made in this work to produce hydrogen from the renewable, indigenous alg...

Vegetable oils are considered promising alternative fuels for diesel engines. In this work an algebraic model for diesel engine was developed. The assumptions used in this model were volumetric efficiency, compression efficiency, expansion efficiency, combustion efficiency, blow down efficiency. The combustion was assumed as incomplete and the comb...

The rapid increase in fuel expenses, the decreasing supply of high-grade fuel on the market and environmental concerns simulated research on vegetable oil as alternative fuels for diesel engines. In this work an experimental investigation on performance and emission characteristics was examined. A single cylinder direct injection water cooled diese...

Performance characteristics of a WCO (Waste cooking oil) based compression ignition engine was investigated. A single cylinder water-cooled, direct injection diesel engine was used. Base data was generated with diesel and neat WCO as fuels. Subsequently, WCO oil was converted into its emulsions and tested in the diesel engine. Results showed increa...