The developments in materials engineering facilitated to production wide range of nanoparticles with enhanced performance in several engineering applications. Enhancing performance of diesel engine is on such application recently gained tremendous attention in the energy engineering. Using nanoparticles as additives in biodiesel or diesel has shown promising results as reported by several research teams across the globe. This paper provides a brief review of using nanoparticles as dispersing agents into fuel to improve the efficiency of the diesel engine. Using different types of nanoparticles and their role in altering the fuel combustion properties are discussed. Significant developments in using a wide range of nanoparticles of different chemical compositions as additives in fuel are summarized and presented with challenges and future perspectives.
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