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Investigating the pros and cons of browns gas and varying EGR on combustion, performance, and emission characteristics of diesel engine

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The significance of mileage to the fruitful operation of a trucking organization cannot be downplayed. Fuel is one of the biggest variable expenses in a trucking wander. An attempt is made in this research to improve the combustion efficiency of a diesel engine for better fuel economy by introducing hydroxy gas which is also called browns gas or HHO gas in the suction line, without compromising performance and emission. Brown’s gas facilitates the air-fuel mixture to ignite faster and efficient combustion. By considering safety and handling issues in automobiles, HHO gas generation by electrolysis of water in the presence of sodium bicarbonate electrolytes (NaHCO3) and usage was explored in this research work over compressed pure hydrogen, due to generation and capacity of immaculate hydrogen as of now confines the application in diesel engine operation. Brown’s gas was utilized as a supplementary fuel in a single-cylinder, four-stroke compression ignition (CI) engine. Experiments were carried out on a constant speed engine at 1500 rpm, result shows at constant HHO flow rate of 0.73 liter per minute (LPM), brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) decreases by 7% at idle load to 16% at full load, and increases brake thermal efficiency (BTE) by 8.9% at minimum load to 19.7% at full load. In the dual fuel (diesel +HHO) operation, CO emissions decreases by 19.4, 64.3, and 34.6% at 25, 50, and 75% load, respectively, and unburned hydrocarbon (UHC) emissions decreased by 11.3% at minimum load to 33.5% at maximum load at the expense of NOx emission increases by 1.79% at 75% load and 1.76% at full load than neat diesel operation. The negative impact of an increase in NOx is reduced by adding EGR. It was evidenced in this experimental work that the use of Brown’s gas with EGR in the dual fuel mode in a diesel engine improves the fuel efficiency, performance, and reduces the exhaust emissions.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thanthai Periyar Government Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632002, India

    Suja Thangaraj

  2. Internal Combustion Engineering Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Anna University, Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600 025, India

    Nagarajan Govindan

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Thangaraj, S., Govindan, N. Investigating the pros and cons of browns gas and varying EGR on combustion, performance, and emission characteristics of diesel engine . Environ Sci Pollut Res 25, 422–435 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-0369-4

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