Performance and Emission Analysis on Twin Cylinder Gasoline Engine Fueled With Pyrolysis Oil Produced from Waste Plastic using Combined Catalytic Effect of Rice Husk and Alumina Ash as Catalyst

  • R. Srisainath, R. Senthilkumar, T. Sunder Selwyn

Abstract

In India waste plastic material produced is around 15000 tons per day. Waste plastic material harms the living beings and the environment, to eradicate waste plastic from our environment it may take 500 years in the globe. Natural environment system such as rivers, lakes, oceans was used as depository for dumping around 65%percentage of the waste plastic. Pyrolysis method is used to convert waste plastic into oil fuel. This method involves heating the waste plastic in lack of oxygen gas. This method is carried out at high temperature. Properties of the plastic oil are similar to petroleum fuels. The plastic pyrolysis oils were blended with commercial petrol in various ratios such as 10%, 20%, 30% with waste plastic oil (WPO) mentioned as WPO10, WPO20, and WPO30, then tested in a four stroke twin cylinder gasoline engine, and their combustion, performance and emission characteristics are analyzed and compared to commercial petrol. Better performance among pyrolysis oil blend was found when extracted pyrolysis oil by using Rice husk ash and Alumina as catalysts blended with 10% commercial petrol. This oil blend also produced lower Carbon monoxide (CO), Hydrocarbons (HC) and Nitric oxide (NOx) emissions.

Published
2022-04-18
How to Cite
R. Srisainath, R. Senthilkumar, T. Sunder Selwyn. (2022). Performance and Emission Analysis on Twin Cylinder Gasoline Engine Fueled With Pyrolysis Oil Produced from Waste Plastic using Combined Catalytic Effect of Rice Husk and Alumina Ash as Catalyst. Design Engineering, (1), 2967 - 2977. Retrieved from http://thedesignengineering.com/index.php/DE/article/view/9364
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