Performance Evaluation of a Prototype Engine for Generation of Power from Exhaust Gas of a Gasoline Generator

Abstract

According to literature, low-income earners, who make up the majority of the Nigerian economy, primarily employ gasoline generators with low power ratings, which do not match their lighting and appliance power requirements. The pressure energy of the generator's exhaust gas was investigated for usage in order to improve the output power of low power rating generators. However, before designing or developing a prototype engine that uses exhaust gas to generate power, a thorough understanding of the exhaust gas's flow properties is required, since this will determine the viability of using exhaust gas for power generation. As a result, a prototype engine was created in this study, and the flow through it was simulated using SolidWorks 2020. The average flow characteristics, such as pressure, velocity, density, and temperature, were 130830.97N/m2, 10.56m/s, 0.90Kg/m3, and 1740C, according to the simulation results. With these magnitudes of average exhaust gas flow characteristics, on which the power generated by the exhaust gas is based, it can be determined that a reasonable power may be generated from the exhaust gas of a gasoline generator, which will serve as a boost to the generator's power. This research makes a significant contribution to knowledge by revealing the potentials of the pressure energy of gasoline generator exhaust gas for generating electricity.