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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2019

Investigating the combined effect of thermal barrier coating and antioxidants on pine oil in DI diesel engine.

Karthickeyan Viswanathan, Dhinesh Balasubramanian, Thiyagarajan Subramanian, Edwin Geo Varuvel

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Experimental investigation of high alcohol low viscous renewable fuel in DI diesel engine.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Karthickeyan ViswanathanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Kuniamuthur, Coimbatore, 641008, India. karthickeyanme.ice@gmail.com.
Dhinesh BalasubramanianDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, Virudhunagar, 626005, India.
Thiyagarajan SubramanianDepartment of Automobile Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology (formerly known as SRM University), Kattankulathur, 603203, India.
Edwin Geo VaruvelDepartment of Automobile Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology (formerly known as SRM University), Kattankulathur, 603203, India.
SRM Institute of Science and Technology · INSRM University · IN

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University Grants Commission 4-4/2013-14 (MRP- SEM/UGC- SERO)
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Abstract

The present study presented an inclusive analysis of engine exhaust emission characteristics of direct injection diesel engine fuelled with diesel and biofuel. Biofuel used in this investigation was obtained by steam distillation from pine oil. A single-cylinder, four-stroke diesel engine was used for this purpose. In this work, performance characteristics like brake thermal efficiency (BTE) and brake-specific fuel consumption (BSFC) were analysed. The engine pollutants, namely nitrogen oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbon (HC), and smoke, were examined. In addition, combustion characteristics like in-cylinder pressure and heat release rate were presented. Two engine modification techniques, namely thermal barrier coating and the addition of antioxidant to biofuel, were attempted. The advantage of thermal barrier coating is to reduce heat loss from the engine and convert the accumulated heat into useful piston work. In this work, partially stabilised zirconia was used as the coating material. The usage of antioxidant-treated biofuel in a diesel engine was said to be the prominent approach for NOx emission reduction. Three different antioxidants, namely butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), tertiary-butyl hydroquinone (TBHQ), were exclusively dissolved at a concentration of 1% by volume with PO fuel. The obtained performance and emission characteristics of the uncoated engine were compared with the thermally coated engine. From the results, it was observed that the PO biofuel may be a promising alternative in the near prospect with the thermal barrier coating technique to enhance the performance, combustion and emission characteristics of diesel engine. The PO+TBHQ blend was considered as more beneficial than PO+BHT and PO+BHA on account of its performance, combustion and emission characteristics. The effectiveness of the antioxidant was shown in the order of TBHQ>BHA>BHT.

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AntioxidantsBiofuelsCarbon MonoxideHot TemperatureHydrocarbonsHydroquinonesNitric OxideNitrogen OxidesSmokeVehicle EmissionsAntioxidantsBiofuelsCarbon MonoxideHydrocarbonshydroquinoneHydroquinonesNitric OxideNitrogen OxidesSmokeVehicle EmissionsAntioxidants and diesel enginePine oilThermal barrier coating

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