Abstract: The ever increasing cost of conventional fossil fuels and their associated environmental impact have become major concerns worldwide. At global level, scientists warn that the combustion of fossil fuels is significantly changing the world’s climate system. In order to conserve the petroleum fuels for future and to eliminate the environmental problems there is need of alternative fuel. In order to overcome the draw backs of the fossil fuels it is the time to completely or partially replace this fuel. So an innovative idea to overcome these problems is the HHO gas. HHO gas is also known as brown gas produced from splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen from electrolysis and allowing the gas to stay in a premixed state for use on demand without the need of storage. In this paper, we have analysed the scope of hydrogen as a supplementary fuel, in 4-Stroke internal combustion gasoline engine. A hydrogen generation system for producing hydrogen and injecting the hydrogen as a fuel supplement into the air intake of carburetor. Hydrogen and oxygen is produced with a fuel cell at low temperature and pressure from water in a tank. The device is powered by vehicle battery. The system is modified such that power is permitted to electrolysis cell only when ignition switch is turned ON. The performance and emission characteristics of a conventional single cylinder spark ignition (SI) engine operated on gasoline and gasoline with hydrogen has been reported.
Keywords: IC Engine, Electrolysis, HHO gas, Exhaust emission.
Title: Application of Hydrogen as a Supplementary Fuel in 4-Stroke Internal Combustion Gasoline Engine
Author: Mr. Sumit S. Kalmegh, Mr. Sumit S. Jamkar, Dr. Sachin S. Ingole
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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