Experimental investigation on emission reduction in diesel engine by using biodiesel fuel with nano catalytic converter

Abstract

Diesel engines have been the “primus motor” of transportation in the world since along time now. However, the exhaustion of fuel supplies and increased fuel rates needs alternative fuels. A considerable amount of interest has been shown by researchers to evaluate different plant and vegetable oils as are placement 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 Catalytic converter device for a diesel engine fueled with diesel and Cedar wood biodiesel fuel are discussed. Catalytic converter 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.