Author(s)

Cyizere Confidence^*, Eng Hiram Ndiritu, Benson Gathitu

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pan African University Institute for Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation, Nairobi, Kenya.

Diesel fuel has been known as the most effective fuel but it is known as a fuel which produces harmful emissions. Later, emulsified diesel fuel was introduced as a better solution but there is no sufficient research data concerning combustion of emulsified fuel. The present work carried out a simulation of non-surfactant emulsified diesel fuel where composition of water in emulsion varied from 0% to 20% to determine the ratio of water to diesel which is more effective in reducing the exhaust emissions especially NO_x. For this simulation,5% of water in diesel without surfactant was able to reduce NO_x up to 35%. It was shown that as the percentage of water increases, the power from that fuel combustion reduces.

Emulsified Diesel Fuel, Surfactant, Water Content, Diesel Fuel, Mi-cro-Explosion, Emissions, Power

Confidence, C. , Ndiritu, E. and Gathitu, B. (2019) Effect of Emulsified Diesel Fuel on Performance and Emissions Characteristics. Energy and Power Engineering, 11, 333-341. doi: 10.4236/epe.2019.119021.