A Project on

PERFORMANCE OF DIESEL ENGINE USING LHR ENGINES WITH COPPER AND ALLUMINIUM
OXIDE (AL2O3) COATINGS

ABSTRACT

Energy conservation and efficiency have always been the quest of engineers
concerned with internal combustion (IC) engines. A diesel engine generally offers better fuel
economy than its counterpart petrol engines. It rejects about one-third of heat energy of the
fuel to the coolant and one-third to the exhaust, leaving only about one-third as useful power
output. Theoretically if the heat rejected could be reduced, then thermal efficiency would
improve, at least up to the limits set by the second law of thermodynamics.

Low Heat Rejection Engines aim to reduce the heat lost to coolant. As piston,
cylinder head and cylinder walls are major sources of heat transfer to the coolant, if this
transfer of heat energy to the coolant is reduced to some extent, then the efficiency will be
increased. For this I used a Low Heat Rejection engine with coatings on cylinder head.

The main objective of low heat rejection (LHR) engines is to improve the thermal
efficiency by reducing the heat lost to the coolant. Diesel engines with their combustion
chamber walls insulated by ceramics are referred to as LHR engines.

In the present work, an attempt has been made on a CI engine to study the
performance with a copper coating and Aluminum Oxide (Al203) on cylinder heads.

To meet increasing energy requirements, there has been growing interest in

alternative fuels like biodiesel derived from vegetable oils to provide a suitable diesel oil
substitute for IC engines. Vegetable oils present a very promising alternative to diesel oil
since they are renewable and have similar properties. Vegetable oils offer almost the same
power output with slightly lower thermal efficiency when used in a diesel engine.

(K.sai Naveen)

M.Tech (Thermal engineering)

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