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The disposal of single waste plastic is becoming from worst to disaster due to its continuous increasing demand in the market. The majority of single-used plastic ends to landfill after its useful life that leads to several problems including air and water pollution. In the present research, the single-used plastic is converted into liquid fuel by the pyrolysis process. The waste plastic fuel (WPF) is mixed with petroleum diesel in equal volumetric proportion to test it on the engine. To enhance the combustion characteristics of the fuel, oxygenated fuel is added to the blend, and the performance and emissions characteristics of the unmodified engine are tested. The better properties of WPF compared to diesel fuels improve the brake thermal efficiency of the engine by 1% for all loading conditions. However, a slight increase in emissions such as CO and NOX is observed. Further improvement in the BTE is observed by adding a small proportion of n-butanol.
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Kumar, P., Pali, H.S., Kumar, V., Sidharth, Pandey, S.M. (2023). Performance and Emissions Characteristics of Unmodified Diesel Engine Running on Waste Plastic Fuel, Diesel, and n-Butanol Blends. In: Maurya, A., Srivastava, A.K., Jha, P.K., Pandey, S.M. (eds) Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7709-1_91
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