TY - JOUR
TI - Effect of L-ascorbic acid as additive for exhaust emission reduction in a direct injection diesel engine using mango seed methyl ester
AU - Ramalingam Senthil
AU - Kaliyaperumal Arunan
AU - Govindasamy Mohan
AU - Ezhumalai Manikandan
AU - Kumar Chandan
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2016
VL - 20
IS - 14
SP - 999
EP - 1004
PT - Article
AB - In this present study the effect of L-ascorbic acid antioxidants additive for  oxides of nitrogen emission reduction in a neat mango seed biodiesel fueled  direct injection Diesel engine. The antioxidant additive L-ascorbic acid is  tested on a Kirloskar-make four stroke water cooled single cylinder Diesel  engine of 5.2 kW. There are four proportions of additive are used:1 ml, 2 ml,  3 ml, and 4 ml. Among the different additive proportion,4 ml concentration of  L-ascorbic acid additive is optimal as oxides of nitrogen levels are  substantially reduced up to 9% in the whole load range in comparison with neat  biodiesel. However, hydrocarbon and carbonmonoxide emissions are found to  have slightly increased by the addition of additive with biodiesel.