Emission examination in diesel engine by using biodiesel fuel with electrochemical activated cell catalytic converter

Abstract

Diesel engines have been the “primus motor” of transportation in the world since a long time now. However, the depletion of fuel supplies, recent concerns over the environment and the ever increasing fuel prices have made the search for an alternative fuel of paramount importance. A considerable amount of interest has been shown by researchers to evaluate different plant and vegetable oils as a replacement of diesel. Based on this background NOx emission is produced during combustion of fuels at high temperature. Excessive release of NOx causes several effects on living organisms and environment. In this work, the efforts to reduce NOx emission by developing electrochemically activated cells (EACs) for a diesel engine fuelled with diesel and biodiesel fuel are discussed. EAC technique is vital after treatment technology attempted in this work to simultaneous control of NOx, HC, and PM emissions. The experiment was conducted on a 1500rpm, four stroke, diesel engine with single cylinder which is water cooled.