Biodiesel is an alternative fuel for diesel engines that is produced by chemically reacting vegetable oil or animal fat with an alcohol such as ethanol or methanol in the presence of catalyst. The growing interest in biodiesel (fatty acid methyl ester or FAME) is because of the similarity of its properties when comparing with diesel fuel. Karanja (Pongamia pinnata), which is one of the source o...

This study investigates the use of di-ethyl ether (DEE) as an oxygenated additive with 20% Karanja methyl ester diesel blend (B20). Experiments were conducted to study the effect of adding 5%, 10% and 15% di-ethyl ether (DEE) with Karanja methyl ester (KME) on performance, emission and combustion characteristics of a direct injection diesel engine operated at a constant speed of 1500 rpm at dif...

The objective of this work is tomake an experimental investigation onchemical feasibility of karanja seed oilby modified the fuel using karanja methyl ester(biodiesel)blends withmineral diesel. This experimentation evaluatethe performance and emission characteristicsof 4stroke, single cylinder, DI diesel enginetest rig. The karanja biodiesel blended withdiesel in various proportions like 10%,20...

various combustion characteristics and properties are studied while selecting a fuel for any engine. the choice of the engine and fuel are highly interrelated. vegetable oil is one obvious fuel particularly because their fuel properties are closer to diesel fuel. two important properties, the cetane number and the calorific value are similar to diesel. hence diesel engines can be operated on ve...

A novel Li-impregnated TiO2 catalyst loaded on feldspar mineral (Li-TiO2/feldspar) was synthesized via a wet impregnation method and characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) analysis. Using these techniques, it possible to confirm the catalyst’s structural organization with high crystallinity. This used in transesterifica...

The standard design parameters of a compression ignition engine fail to give specified performance with strait vegetable oil (SVO) from different origins. This study is performed to find the effect of compression ratio on emission characteristics such as carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrocarbon (HC), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and smoke opacity with all the tested fuels in a single cy...

The necessity for decrease in consumption of conventional fuel, related energy and to promote the use of renewable sources such as biofuels, demands for the effective evaluation of the performance of engines based on laws of thermodynamics. Energy, exergy, entropy generation, mean gas temperature and exhaust gas temperature analysis of CI engine using diesel and karanja methyl ester blends at d...

Heterogeneous catalyst was prepared from Portland cement. The heterogeneous tested for catalytic activity in the transesterification of non-edible, high free fatty acid feedstock, such as crude karanja oil (CKO), biodiesel production, at methanol reflux temperature. Gas chromatographic (Gc) analysis technique used to determine methyl ester yield. preparation low-cost sources, and use non-edible...