Abstract—The performance of I.C engine greatly depends on the complete combustion of the air fuel mixture which means less unburnt gases and hence results in higher efficiency, less emissions. The present work deals with fuel ionization by using magnetic field which will ensure complete combustion of air fuel mixture. Normally fuel injector converts the liquid fuel into fine particles (atomization and vaporization). An attempt is made in this work to improve the combustion efficiency of internal combustion engines by adopting a magnetic fuel ionization method in which the fuel is ionized due to the magnetic field. The magnetic field is created by high power magnets, which are mounted over fuel carrying pipe line before fuel is allowed to enter in to the combustion chamber. The magnetic fuel ionization method establishes improved fuel burning criteria not only ensures increased thermal efficiency and reduced emissions levels in an I.C engine but also environmental friendly nature of an I.C engine with further experimentation in near future. Experiments have been done on a four stroke diesel engine with the incorporation of magnetic fuel ionization method. The results yielded from the experiments show that thermal efficiency increases by 2% and emissions reduced to 5%.

Index Terms—Four stroke diesel engine, Magnetic fuel ionization method, Performance enhancement, Reduced emissions

Cite: P Vijaya Kumar, Santosh Kumar Patro, and Vedasamhita Pudi, "Experimental Study of a Novel Magnetic Fuel Ionization Method in Four Stroke Diesel Engines," International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 151-159, January 2014.