THERMAL SCIENCE

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Gopinathan Thulasi

,

Arulshri Kandampalayam Ponnusamy

,

Rajasekar Rathanasamy

,

Sathish Kumar Palaniappan

,

Sabarish Kumar Palanisamy

REDUCTION OF HARMFUL NITROGEN OXIDE EMISSION FROM LOW HEAT REJECTION DIESEL ENGINE USING CARBON NANOTUBES

ABSTRACT
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.
KEYWORDS
heat rejection engine, lanthanum aluminate, thermal barrier coating, NOx, carbon nanotubes
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2015-09-06
PAPER REVISED: 2016-01-03
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2016-02-09
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2016-11-13
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI16S4181T
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2016, VOLUME 20, ISSUE Supplement 4, PAGES [S1181 - S1187]
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