@ARTICLE{Senthilraja_S._Effects_2017,
 author={Senthilraja, S. and Vijayakumar, KCK and Gangadevi, R.},
 volume={vol. 64},
 number={No 1},
 pages={111-121},
 journal={Archive of Mechanical Engineering},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2017},
 publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee on Machine Building},
 abstract={This article reports the effects of CuO/water based coolant on specific fuel consumption and exhaust emissions of four stroke single cylinder diesel engine. The CuO nanoparticles of 27 nm were used to prepare the nanofluid-based engine coolant. Three different volume concentrations (i.e 0.05%, 0.1%, and 0.2%) of CuO/water nanofluids were prepared by using two-step method. The purpose of this study is to investigate the exhaust emissions (NOx), exhaust gas temperature and specific fuel consumption under different load conditions with CuO/water nanofluid. After a series of experiments, it was observed that the CuO/water nanofluids, even at low volume concentrations, have a significant influence on exhaust emissions. The experimental results revealed that, at full load condition, the specific fuel consumption was reduced by 8.6%, 15.1% and 21.1% for the addition of 0.05%, 0.1% and 0.2% CuO nanoparticles with water, respectively. Also, the emission tests were concluded that 881 ppm, 853 ppm and 833 ppm of NOx emissions were observed at high load with 0.05%, 0.1% and 0.2% volume concentrations of CuO/water nanofluids, respectively.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={Effects of specific fuel consumption and exhaust emissions of four stroke diesel engine with CuO/water nanofluid as coolant},
 URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/104229/PDF/ame-2017-0007.pdf},
 doi={10.1515/meceng-2017-0007},
 keywords={nanofluids, engine performance, exhaust emissions},
}