Generation of Brown Gas as an Alternative Fuel for Combustion Engines

  • Unique Paper ID: 169118
  • PageNo: 333-344
  • Abstract:
  • The overuse of fossil fuels and the resulting drastic increase in pollution levels has made us realize the requirement for a new sustainable fuel that does not cause pollution. This search has ended up with an innovative idea of using HHO/Brown gas as a fuel enhancer in internal combustion engines which uses fossil fuels as a primary source for combustion. Many developments have been made in this area with several experiments on both gasoline and diesel internal combustion engines till now using HHO gas or brown gas as a fuel performance enhancer. This work involves reviewing various developments that have taken place in this field. With the addition of HHO gas, there was a net increase in brake power range and an increase in brake thermal efficiency ranges. A decrease in specific fuel consumption will be obtained with a decrease in CO and HC emissions. The HHO/Brown gas generation is done through water electrolysis, producing oxy-hydrogen gas that has two-thirds of hydrogen and one-third of oxygen. The experiment maintained constant speed but varied the engine load, adjusting the amount of HHO gas injected at three different amperages (1, 2, and 3 amps) with a 12-volt DC supply.

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BibTeX

@article{169118,
        author = {Parthib Majumdar and Sachin. S. Deshmukh and Manav Pande and Amir Hussain},
        title = {Generation of Brown Gas as an Alternative Fuel for Combustion Engines},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2024},
        volume = {11},
        number = {6},
        pages = {333-344},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=169118},
        abstract = {The overuse of fossil fuels and the resulting drastic increase in pollution levels has made us realize the requirement for a new sustainable fuel that does not cause pollution. This search has ended up with an innovative idea of using HHO/Brown gas as a fuel enhancer in internal combustion engines which uses fossil fuels as a primary source for combustion. Many developments have been made in this area with several experiments on both gasoline and diesel internal combustion engines till now using HHO gas or brown gas as a fuel performance enhancer. This work involves reviewing various developments that have taken place in this field. With the addition of HHO gas, there was a net increase in brake power range and an increase in brake thermal efficiency ranges. A decrease in specific fuel consumption will be obtained with a decrease in CO and HC emissions. The HHO/Brown gas generation is done through water electrolysis, producing oxy-hydrogen gas that has two-thirds of hydrogen and one-third of oxygen. The experiment maintained constant speed but varied the engine load, adjusting the amount of HHO gas injected at three different amperages (1, 2, and 3 amps) with a 12-volt DC supply.},
        keywords = {HHO, Brown Gas},
        month = {November},
        }

Cite This Article

Majumdar, P., & Deshmukh, S. S., & Pande, M., & Hussain, A. (2024). Generation of Brown Gas as an Alternative Fuel for Combustion Engines. International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology (IJIRT), 11(6), 333–344.

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