Abbas Alli Taghipoor Bafghi and Hosein Bakhoda and Fateme Khodaei Chegeni
Effects of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticle Addition in Diesel and DieselBiodiesel Blends on the Performance Characteristics of a CI Engine
1507 - 1512
2015
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International Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10002117
https://publications.waset.org/vol/104
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
An experimental investigation is carried out to
establish the performance characteristics of a compression ignition
engine while using cerium oxide nanoparticles as additive in neat
diesel and dieselbiodiesel blends. In the first phase of the
experiments, stability of neat diesel and dieselbiodiesel fuel blends
with the addition of cerium oxide nanoparticles is analyzed. After
series of experiments, it is found that the blends subjected to high
speed blending followed by ultrasonic bath stabilization improves the
stability. In the second phase, performance characteristics are studied
using the stable fuel blends in a single cylinder four stroke engine
coupled with an electrical dynamometer and a data acquisition
system. The cerium oxide acts as an oxygen donating catalyst and
provides oxygen for combustion. The activation energy of cerium
oxide acts to burn off carbon deposits within the engine cylinder at
the wall temperature and prevents the deposition of nonpolar
compounds on the cylinder wall results reduction in HC emissions.
The tests revealed that cerium oxide nanoparticles can be used as
additive in diesel and dieselbiodiesel blends to improve complete
combustion of the fuel significantly.
Open Science Index 104, 2015