Experimental performance study of efficiency and emission of SO2 and NOx of a diesel engine running on alcohol as secondary fuel

Alka Bani Agrawal¹, A.K. Singh² and Vipin Shrivastava¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering. Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal (India). ²Department of Applied Chemistry, Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal (India).

Received on October 22, 2009 and accepted on December 09, 2009

ABSTRACT

The consumption of diesel in the last few years has increased at an alarming rate because of rising share of diesel based transport and increasing reliance on tractors, generators and pump sets for agriculture. It has also resulted in increase in pollution level particularly of SO2 and NOx in the previously clean surroundings of rural and semi-urban areas. In this paper, efficiency and pollution levels of a diesel engine has been studied when it is run on alcohol as a secondary fuel to achieve the objective of reduction in diesel consumption, emission of SO2 and NOx. The results have been very encouraging and may be very useful in rural and semi-urban areas where diesel is in short supply and pollution problem is increasing day by day.

Keywords : Diesel Engine , Efficiency, Alcohol, Emission level of SO2 and NOx .