Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Fuel Magnetization for Improvement of Diesel Engine's Efficiency

One of the greatest invention of the mankind is an internal combustion engine, which converts chemical energy of the fossil fuel into useful mechanical energy. The main disadvantage of IC engine is less fuel efficient and more emission of exhaust pollutant gases. It leads to higher demand for fossil fuel and pollute environment to a greater extent. In the current work, experimental investigation on existing single cylinder air cooled diesel engine was carried out by supplying the magnetized fuel. Experiments were carried out without fuel magnetizer and then with fuel magnetizer of different magnetic intensities. Brake Specific Fuel Consumption and exhaust emissions of the selected engine was experimentally investigated and performance variation with respect to the different magnetic intensity were studied. It is observed that brake specific fuel consumption is decreased upto 9% with permanent magnets having different intensities. It is also observed that exhaust emission is also reduced to certain extent; oxides of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen emission level is reduced to 40–45% with magnetization compared to without magnetized fuel.