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An effect of alcohol-plastic oil petrol blends on SI engine performance and exhaust emissions

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Energy is becomes a vital and crucial parameter in many technical, commercial and self-development sectors of an individualistic in any countries. In this context, fossil fuels are devaluing and their costs are rises and hovering. While generating energy from the existing fossil fuels not alone economically infeasible but also provoke many sensitive environmental issues. Along with emissions from automobile sector, one of the other culprits in eco system is disposal of waste plastics. To meet the acute energy needs with eco-balance is utilizing plastic oil as functional fuel to run the engines. In the present work experimental investigations are carried out on multi cylinder petrol engine operating with 25 % plastic pyrolysis oil, with and without alcohol additives at 5 % volume basis is blended with petrol. It is noticed from the experimental results that, the engine performance with methanol additive is improved by 8.1 % than petrol and 21.74 % compared to without additive in plastic oil blend. Hydrocarbon emissions are substantially controlled by 54 % compared to petrol and 34.59 % than without additive in plastic oil blend at full load condition.

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    Kareddula Vijaya Kumar & Ravi Kumar Puli

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K. Vijaya Kumar is Research Scholar of Mechanical Engineering Department, NIT Warangal since December 2013. His area of interests is investigating the suitability of waste plastic oil and alternative fuels in SI engines. His e-mail address is vijay701414@gmail.com.

Ravi Kumar Puli is Professor of MED, NIT Warangal since 1992. He supervised 6 Ph.D. students in the area of alternative fuels in automobile. 6 patents are there in his credit, and also he published more than 30 research articles in various international journals. His research areas are energy generations in Automobiles. He may be contacted at both ravikumar.puli@gmail.com and pravi@nitw.ac.in.

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Kumar, K.V., Puli, R.K. An effect of alcohol-plastic oil petrol blends on SI engine performance and exhaust emissions. J Mech Sci Technol 32, 1849–1855 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-018-0341-3

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