Abstract

The greater parts of the buyers of transportation utilize petroleum and diesel as fuel. Because of the expansion in the use of these items, there is need of increment in productivity of power producing machines. The performance of the engine is mostly affected by heat loss to the components of engine like a piston. In this project, the heat absorbed by the piston is reduced using a thermal barrier coating (TBC) technique. The ceramic material yttria Stabilized Zirconia (YSZ) is used for the coating process for a considerable increase in performance of I. C engine. The piston is modeled in Pro-e and thermal analysis is done in ANSYS. Transient thermal analysis is done on both non coated aluminum piston and YSZ coated aluminum piston. In the end, the results of both coated and non-coated pistons are compared to find out the better performing condition of an engine.

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