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Day-by-day there is a huge demand for alternative fuel. The effort has been taken by the authors to improve the performance of engine. In addition to this the current experimental work is carried out to find out the performance and emission characteristics of single-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine. For experimental work mixture of biodiesel B100 (50% cottonseed + 25% orange peel oil + 25% neem oil) B10 (90% diesel + 10% B100), and B20 (80% diesel + 20% B100) were used. It is found that nanoparticles have some contribution in the improvement of performance of diesel engine. In present study, copper and zinc oxides nanoparticles used in the blend. These nanoparticles are mixed in biodiesel blends at various parts per million (ppm) levels by using ultrasonic vibrator. As a result of this, it is found that addition of copper oxide nanoparticle to B20CuO50 results in enhancement of brake power (BP) by 3.33%, brake thermal efficiency (BTE) by 9.6% with a reduction in brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) by 5.88% compared to diesel at maximum load. The emission parameters such as CO2, CO, and NOx slightly increase but HC increases higher for B20CuO50 at maximum load.
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Randive, M., Dhande, S.T., Shende, M.D. (2020). Experimental Investigation of Diesel Engine Performance by Using Mixtures of Diesel, Biodiesel and Zinc, and Copper Oxide Nanoparticles. In: Iyer, B., Deshpande, P., Sharma, S., Shiurkar, U. (eds) Computing in Engineering and Technology. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1025. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9515-5_78
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