TY - JOUR
TI - Reduction of harmful nitrogen oxide emission from low heat rejection diesel engine using carbon nanotubes
AU - Thulasi Gopinathan
AU - Ponnusamy Arulshri Kandampalayam
AU - Rathanasamy Rajasekar
AU - Palaniappan Sathish Kumar
AU - Palanisamy Sabarish Kumar
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2016
VL - 20
IS - 14
SP - 1181
EP - 1187
PT - Article
AB - In this study, lanthanum aluminate is used as thermal barrier coating  material for the first time in the internal combustion engine to convert the  standard engine into low heat rejection engine. Initially, the biodiesel is  prepared from sunflower oil by using trans-esterification process. The piton  crown, cylinder head and valves of the engine is coated with lanthanum  aluminate for a thickness of around 200 microns. However, the analysis of  performance and emission characteristics of a standard diesel is carried out  with diesel/biodiesel to compare with the low heat rejection engine. The  lanthanum aluminate coated engine fueled with sunflower methyl ester shows  better performance and emission. But the emission of NOx founds to be higher  in the coated engine. Further, a small quantity of carbon nanotubes is added  onto the biodiesel to carry out the experiments. Based on the results, the  carbon nanotubes are added with the biodiesel to reduce the emission of NOx.