Performance and Emission Studies of a Diesel Engine Fuelled with Different Waste Plastic Pyrolysis-Diesel Blends

Mechanical

Worldwide research activities have been involved in the replacement of fossil fuel by some non-conventional fuels. Many attempts have been made on the conversion of waste material by some suitable technique. Thermochemical methods have gained attention by many researchers. Pyrolysis is one of the attractive techniques since anything can be pyrolyzed which contains hydrogen and carbon by this process. Disposal of waste plastic has become one of the major tasks in today’s generation. In this regard pyrolysis of waste plastic can be potential solution. In this research study fuel derived from waste plastic by pyrolysis process (PO) has been utilized as diesel engine fuel. The PO fuel was blended with high cetane fuel i.e. jatropha methyl ester (JME). The PO was blended in volume by 10% to 40% with remaining portion of JME. The characterization of prepared fuel was carried out as per ASTM standard. The prepared test fuels were used as replacement of diesel fuel and performance and emission parameters were recorded, compared with diesel, analyzed and reported in this article.

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