Biodiesel as an alternative fuel for diesel engine has a great possibility to solve the problem such as air pollution caused by exhaust gas emission of the automobile. In this study, the usability of new concept (non-esterfication) biodiesel fuel as alternative fuel is investigated in indirect injection diesel engine. New concept biodiesel fuel has no glycerin generated by esterfication process and reduces the 20 percent of cost because no use methanol in the production process. Experiments were conducted by using the four blends with different volumetic percentage of biodiesel (0, 20, 50 and 100) in baseline diesel fuel. The smoke emission of biodiesel fuel was reduced in comparison with diesel fuel, but power, torque and brake specific energy consumption was similar to diesel fuel.

Injection rate characteristics of biodesel fuels according to the blending ratio was described in this work. The injection rate measuring system based on the Bosch's method was utilized to measure and compare the fuel injection rate characteristics. Three different types of biodiesel which were derived from seed, unpolished-rice, and soybean were blended with the diesel fuel in 20% and 40% of volumetric ratio. The fuel properties, injection mass, and injection rate characteristics were obtained and compared in various injection conditions. It is expected that this observations provide important insights into the effect of fuel properties on the biodiesel fuel injection rate performance in a CI engine

In this study, the fiber blending ratio and strain rate effect on the tensile behavior of hybrid fiber reinforced cement composite was evaluated. Hooked steel fiber and polyvinyl alcohol fiber were used for reinforcing fiber. The fiber blending ratio of HSF+PVA were 1.5+0.5, 1.0+1.0 and 0.5+1.5vol.%. As a results, the tensile strength, strain capacity and fracture toughness of the hooked steel fiber reinforced cement composites were improved by the increase of the bond strength of the fiber and the matrix according to increase of strain rate. However, the tensile stress sharply decreased after the peak stress because of the decrease in the number of straightened pull-out fibers by micro cracks in the matrix around hooked steel fiber. On the other hand, PVA fiber showed cut-off fracture at strain rate 10-6/s with multiple cracks. However, at the strain rate 101/s, the multiple cracks and strain capacity were decreased because of the pull-out fracture of PVA fiber. The HSF1.5PVA0.5 shown the highest tensile strength because the PVA fiber suppressed the micro cracks in the matrix around the hooked steel fiber and improved the pull-out resistance of hooked steel fiber. Thus, DIF of strain capacity and fracture toughness of HSF1.5PVA were greatly improved. In addition, the synergistic response of fracture toughness was positive because the tensile stress was slowly decreased after the peak stress by improvement of the pull-out resistance of hooked steel fiber at strain rate 101/s