Performance Studies on diesel Engine Stabilized with TBC and Glycine Max Blended Oil

These days, thermal barrier coatings are gaining remarkable attention among researches owing to their wide applications and impact on several critical performance parameters of an engine. This throws light on the experimental investigation of a thermal barrier coated (TBC) piston crown in an engine imbibed with Glycine Max (Glycine Max) oil blended diesel engine. A comparative study was done on the engine with and without TBC. For this, Yittria Stabilized Zirconia was plasma sprayed as the TBC on the top of the engine piston, cylinder heads and even on the valves. Due to the presence of TBC it was observed that the heat transfer was minimized to a very high percentage. The blending ratio of the oil was varied from 10% -50% in order to study the critical performance variables and CO, HC, NO and CO2 emissions. By incorporating Yittria Stabilized Zirconia as a piston coating and fuel as soya bean oil the mechanical, brake thermal efficiency, indicated thermal efficiency and volumetric efficacies were enhanced remarkably and fuel consumption was drastically reduced.