Diesel engine coaxed to run on LPG blend

  • 28/06/2004

Four mechanical engineering students of Sri Jagadguru Chandrasekharanatha Swamiji Institute of Technology in in Bangalore have successfully run a diesel engine on a diesel-LPG mixture. As part of their project work, the team comprising Rohit Anand, Ravi Shankar S, Rohan R.G and Sachin S.K took up work on a single cylinder four-stroke diesel engine employing an LPG-diesel blend. The students were guided in their journey by lecturer P. Rukhmangadha. Evaluating the performance of the engine using LPG and diesel mixture in a 60:40 ratio for more than an hour, they realised that savings from the modified fuel be as high as 50 per cent.