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The consumption of diesel fuels for its efficiency and reduced fuel consumption has a major limitation associated with the price of crude oil in stock markets. Thus improving the combustion of fuel in engines can reduce the unfavorable emissions in the environment, which is a prominent limitation in the present scenario due to climate change and global warming. The addition of fuel additives in diesel fuels is considered as an effective way to improve the properties of fuel and to reduce the emissions in the engine. This has made the researches to focus on addition of nanoparticles in the diesel fuels to reduce the consumption and to increase the efficiency with reduced emission rates. In this paper, the performance of diesel engine is tested with diesel fuel with the addition of nanoparticle blend. This includes 20, 40 and 60 ppm cerium oxide (CeO2) is added as an additives with the diesel fuel. This proposed blend tends to increase the complete combustion of the diesel fuel with reduced emission capacity rates. The findings revealed that the CeO2 diesel blend with 50ppm blend performed well with improved combustion quality and specifically fuel consumption of 50ppm CeO2 diesel blend is lower than other blends and neat diesel fuel. Also, the brake thermal efficiency (BTE) of 20ppm is increased when compared with other ppm fuel blends. Moreover, the emission of CO, HC, and NOx gases from 50ppm blend is reduced than 20 ppm and 40 ppm blends.
Brake Thermal Efficiency; Nanoparticles; Cerium Oxide; Diesel Blends; Gases; Reduced Emission
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