An Assessment of Performance and Emission Characteristics of Diesel Engine Fueled with Zirconia Nanoparticles Additive in Diesel Biodiesel Blend

This study is performed with an objective to explore the performance and emission attribute of the biodiesel–diesel and ZrO2 nano particles in CI engine. In this investigation the biodiesel–diesel and ZrO2 nano particles blends has been formulated in different ratios like 30% Biodiesel 70% diesel with 10 ppm of ZrO2 and 50 ppm of ZrO2. The emulsion of nano particles shows good consistency in prepared blends and it increase the oxidation rate with increased combustion and less emission rates. To observe the effect experimentation is done with varying Load (0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%). Form the investigation it has been elicited that ZrO2 nanoparticles decreases the BSFC and increases the BTE as compared to diesel fueled engine. Beside the improvement in performance of the engine the addition of ZrO2 nanoparticles CO and NOX emission has been also increases.