Concerning the enormous availability of waste plastics in Oman, the current investigation is focused to produce waste plastic oil into alternative fuels and facilitate more annual revenue and create employment opportunities in the country. According to previous research, using plastic oil as a lone fuel in power generation applications has many drawbacks (in terms of unhealthy emissions such as smoke, CO, NOx, HC, etc.). Some prominent/existing techniques, such as engine design/fuel modification/exhaust gas treatment, were widely used to minimize toxic emissions and to decrease the brake-specific fuel consumption of compression ignition or diesel engines. However, some researchers use the fuel modification technique because it does not entail any significant adjustments during the experimentation. One possible approach is to use additive blending and emulsification techniques, which have the potential to significantly reduce hazardous emissions from diesel engines while having no negative impact on their performance. In the current investigation, additives such as Di-Ethyl Ether (DEE) and water will be blended with the plastic oil to prepare DEE blended plastic oil fuel and water mixed plastic oil emulsion fuel investigation in the diesel engine.
Research objectives:
• Utilize the waste plastics available in Oman to produce alternative fuels for power generation.
• Identify the types of plastic materials in Oman which can be used to synthesize plastic oil.
• Adding some chemical additives with plastic oil to ameliorate the thermal properties.
• Check & improve the stability attributes of plastic oil & additive blended plastic oil fuels.
• Investigate the working traits (emission, combustion & performance) of the engine using plastic oils.
Research Team: Prof. Dr J. Sadhik Basha, Jahad Al Jabri, Maryam Al Saadi, Maryam Al Ghaithi