| Improving the Performance of a Six-Cylinder Diesel Engine with the Addition of Alumina Nanoparticles to Diesel and Biodiesel Fuel |
| Paper ID : 1057-NICAME1402 |
| Authors: |
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Mani Ghanbari1, lotfali Mozafari-Vanani *2 1Department of Mechanical Engineering of Agricultural Machinery, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran. (manighanbari@tvu.ac.ir) 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran |
| Abstract: |
| Due to the importance of using alternative fuels in internal combustion engines, this study was performed by adding alumina nanoparticles to two types of pure diesel fuel and biodiesel fuel to evaluate the performance of a diesel engine. In this study, alumina nanoparticles in different concentrations were added to two types of diesel and biodiesel fuels (20% biodiesel and 80% diesel: B20). In this study, biodiesel fuel was prepared from cooking waste oil. Due to the importance of the effect of nano additive concentrations, two concentrations (80 and 120 ppm) were used for diesel fuel and four concentrations (40, 80, 120 and 160 ppm) were used for biodiesel fuel. Diesel engine performance was evaluated using alternative fuels at 800, 850, 900, 950, and 1000 Rpm engine speeds. The results showed that with increasing the concentration of nanoparticles in diesel fuel, the average power and average engine torque increased to 1.78 and 2%, respectively, compared to pure diesel fuel. BSFC also decreased by 6.01% compared to pure diesel fuel. Using nanoparticles in biodiesel fuel, the maximum power and torque were recorded at 42.48 kw and 402.8 Nm respectively, and the lowest BSFC was recorded at 207.21 gr / kW.hr for biodiesel fuel with concentration of 160 ppm at 1000 Rpm engine speed. |
| Keywords: |
| Internal Combustion Engine, Performance, Diesel, Biodiesel, Alumina |
| Status : Paper Accepted (Poster Presentation) |
