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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2018

Design and experimental investigations on six-stroke SI engine using acetylene with water injection.

Keshav Gupta, Kishanlal Suthar, Sheetal Kumar Jain, Ghanshyam Das Agarwal, Ashish Nayyar

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Keshav GuptaArya Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Keshav.gupta.jpr@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4977-3568
Kishanlal SutharArya College of Engineering & I.T, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Sheetal Kumar JainMNIT, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Ghanshyam Das AgarwalMNIT, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Ashish NayyarSKIT, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

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In the present study, a four-stroke cycle gasoline engine is redesigned and converted into a six-stroke cycle engine and experimental study has been conducted using gasoline and acetylene as fuel with water injection at the end of the recompression stroke. Acetylene has been used as an alternative fuel along with gasoline and performance of the six-stroke spark ignition (SI) engine with these two fuels has been studied separately and compared. Brake power and thermal efficiency are found to be 5.18 and 1.55% higher with acetylene as compared to gasoline in the six-stroke engine. However, thermal efficiency is found to be 45% higher with acetylene in the six-stroke engine as compared to four-stroke SI engine. The CO and HC emissions were found to be reduced by 13.33 and 0.67% respectively with acetylene as compared to gasoline due to better combustion of acetylene. The NO

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AcetyleneVehicle EmissionsCarbon MonoxideEquipment DesignGasolineHydrocarbonsNitrogen OxidesWaterAcetyleneCarbon MonoxideGasolineHydrocarbonsNitrogen OxidesVehicle EmissionsWaterAcetylene fuelEngine performanceExhaust heat recoverySix-stroke engineWater injection

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