Open AccessStudy of Emission Control on Stationary Diesel Engine by Scrubbing Technique with Sodium Bicarbonate Solution
Author(s) -
S. Premkumar,
G. Balaji
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/573/1/012005
Subject(s) - scrubber , sodium bicarbonate , diesel engine , data scrubbing , environmental science , automotive engineering , diesel fuel , waste management , combustion , chemistry , engineering , organic chemistry
Increasing automobile emission is becoming a major problem for our environment. Wet scrubber technology is generally used in power plants and marine engines for emission control. In this study, this technique was applied to the internal combustion engine for its suitability and performance to control undesirable emissions. A 5.2 kW diesel engine with an eddy current dynamometer with water cooling and is used for this study. The sodium bicarbonate [NaHCO 3 ] solution was chosen for the study. Experimental readings were taken with the fabricated scrubber at the exhaust with different engine loads (0, 1.3, 2.6, 3.9, and 5.2 kW). Chosen sodium bicarbonate solution was found to be very effective in reducing emissions. The sodium bicarbonate solution effectively absorbedthe NO and smoke emissions by 12.35% and 27.21%, respectively.