Advances in Automobile Engineering
Open Access

Use of cobalt-graphene in place of platinum in catalytic converter

International Conference and Exhibition on Automobile Engineering

September 01-02, 2015 Valencia, Spain

S M Sriramnandan and V Srinivasan

P.S.G College of Technology, India

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Adv Automob Eng

Abstract :

Today in the modern world the most important problem faced by the mankind is increasing pollution at a very high rate. It affects the ecosystem of the environment and also aids to increase the greenhouse effect. The exhaust gases from the automobiles are major cause of pollution. Automobiles have increased to a large number which has increased the pollution of our world to an alarming rate. There are two methods of controlling the pollution namely, pre-pollution control method and post-pollution control method. This paper is based on controlling the emission by post-pollution control method. The ratio of surface area of nano particles to the volume of the nano particles is inversely proportional to the radius of the nano particles. So decreasing the radius, this ratio is leading resulting in an increased rate of reaction and thus the concentration of the pollution is decreased. To achieve this objective, use of cobalt-graphene element is proposed. The proposed method is mainly to decrease the cost of platinum as it is expensive. This has a longer life than the platinum based catalysts.

Biography :

Email: sriramnandan@outlook.com