PERFORMANCE AND EMISSION STUDY OF DIESEL USED TRANSFORMER OIL BLEND USING ACETYLENE GAS AIR MIXTURE ON DIESEL ENGINE

Automobile Engineering

This project leads to the idea of using acetylene gas in the internal combustion engine such that it reduces the demand of the petroleum products that is going to be extinct in near future. It includes about the emissions of harmful gases that can be reduced by the use of acetylene instead of petroleum products. Used transformer oil (UTO) is waste oil obtained from power transformers and welding transformers. It possesses considerable heating value and properties similar to diesel fuel. A preliminary investigation on the utilization of the UTO in a single cylinder, four stroke small powered direct injections (DI) diesel engine is done. In order to improve the performance and reduce the smoke emission, a dual fuel operation was attempted in the present investigation. Acetylene was inducted as a primary fuel at four different flow rates viz 132 g/h, 198 g/h, 264 g/h and 330 g/h along with the air, to study the performance and emission behavior of a four-stroke, 4.4 kW diesel engine, while the UTO was injected as pilot fuel. The experimental results were compared with diesel-acetylene dual fuel operation in the same engine.

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