Carbon dioxide capture using Adsorption Technology in Diesel Engines

Saravanan Supramani, Ramesh kumar Chidambaram

Abstract


Diesel engines are the major sources of Carbon dioxide (CO2)emission in the transport sector compared to petrol engines and for this reason the current trend in diesel engine research is shifting towards reduction of CO2 emissions. Removal of CO2 from the engine exhaust and recycling it in industrial applications could be a better solution for CO2 reduction. Out of a few methods available, adsorption and desorption of the CO2 using zeolite is an ecoomical way to remove CO2 from the engine exhaust.  In this study, CO2 from the exhaust of a Kirloskar TAF AV1 type diesel engine is captured using zeolite 13X. To optimize the capture of CO2 from theengine exhaust, three quatities of zeolite are considered in this study. 100, 150 and 200 grams of zeolite is stored in a cylindrical chamber and placed in the exhaust line of the engine. A surge tank is connected before the zeolite chamber to reduce the backpressure of the engine caused by the addition of zeolite chamber. Emissions such as CO2,Unburned hydrocarbon (HC) and Carbon monoxide (CO) before and after the chamber are measured to study the CO2 adsorption capacity of the zeolite 13X. From the results, it was found that low-cost zeolite sieves can adsorb upto a maximum of 45% of the CO2 emission from the engine exhaust.

Keywords


Energy storage, Emission reduction

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