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Production of Composite Biodiesel from Pongamia & Simarouba oil and Comparison of Performance of Composite Biodiesel with Diesel
Abstract: Pongamia oil and simarouba oil are mixed in equal volume to prepare the composite oil. The composite oil is processed through two stage transesterification process to produce composite biodiesel. The composite biodiesel blends are prepared by mixing neat biodiesel with diesel by 5%, 10% and 20% volume respectively. The engine control factors viz., injection pressure, injection timing and fuel preheating temperature are considered for evaluating the performance of composite biodiesel …
Published in International Journal of I.C. Engines and Gas Turbines · Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2023 · pp. 1–9 Read article
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Biodiesel production using waste cooking oil: influence of catalysts on reaction parameters
Abstract: Over a century ago, Rudolf Diesel tested the used of vegetable oil as fuel for his automotive engine, several years later, bio-based diesel obtain from trans-esterification of animal fats or vegetable oils in presence of catalyst have been used as alternative automotive fuels to safe guard the environment and avoid global warming. Cost of production process has limited the diversification and generalizes usage of biodiesel, thus exploring avenues for cost …
Published in International Journal of Industrial Biotechnology and Biomaterials · Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2021 · pp. 1–8 Read article
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Recent Techniques for Producing Biodiesel
Abstract: Development of society increases the demand of energy. Particularly in transportation sector the need of diesel fuel is increasing day by day and consequently there is a problem of environmental pollution, so there are severe challenges to human survival and development. Biodiesel provides one kind of sustainable solution to above problems. The supercritical process is one of the innovative methods used in the manufacturing of biodiesel. With this process, oils …
Published in International Journal of I.C. Engines and Gas Turbines · Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2024 · pp. 19–22 Read article
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Effect of Al2O3 and CeO2 Nanocatalysts on Biodiesel Yield from Pine and Soapnut Oils
Abstract: Abstract This study examines the influence of aluminium oxide (Al2O3) and cerium oxide (CeO2) nanocatalysts on the biodiesel yield obtained from two non-edible oils: pine oil and soapnut oil. Both oils were extracted through mechanical pressing and converted into biodiesel using the transesterification process. To understand how different process conditions, affect biodiesel production, a Box–Behnken Design (BBD) was used. Three key variables—methanol-to-oil ratio, catalyst concentration, and reaction temperature—were analyzed to …
Published in International Journal of I.C. Engines and Gas Turbines · Vol. 11, Issue 2, 2025 · pp. 1–10 Read article
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Synthesis and Characterization of Biodiesel from Animal Fat
Abstract: Biodiesel, an alternate and ecologically acceptable substitute for the conventional fuel, is usually produced from a wide range of edible vegetable oils, which are normally used for human consumption and whose prices are expected to increase in future. In this regard, reliable and low-cost raw materials have increasingly drawn interest for biodiesel production, such as by-products of the meat processing industries or waste animal fats. In present work biodiesel production …
Published in International Journal of I.C. Engines and Gas Turbines · Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2019 · pp. 45–54 Read article
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Comparative Studies on Production of Biodiesel from Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) & Noctiluca Scintillans(NS)
Abstract: The world realized that the main source of energy from crude oil, which leads to the environmental concern and disappeared in few years. That’s how new resolutions are under study looking for alternate fuel to replace the fossil fuels. The research studies have been made in field, but none of which are on a large scale production locally in Oman. Based on scenario, Biomass (algae) can be produced to make …
Published in International Journal of Renewable Energy and its Commercialization · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2019 · pp. 23–36 Read article
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Identification of significant parameters for the production of Jatropha biodiesel using preliminary experimentation
Abstract: The current research work is on Jatropha biodiesel for finding the significant parameters in optimum biodiesel yield. The one factor at a time approach is applied in the esterification. The trans-esterification reaction is used by mixing of Jatropha oil and ethanol in the presence of catalyst KOH. After some time two products are formed a Jatropha biodiesel and a glycerin. The density of glycerin is more as compared to biodiesel. …
Published in International Journal of I.C. Engines and Gas Turbines · Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2023 · pp. 1–7 Read article
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Experimental Investigation of Jatropha, Karanja, Mahua and Polanga oils based biodiesel using Analysis of Variance
Abstract: The paper focused on application of ANOVA in predicting statistical model of four non-edible oils based biodiesel using design expert 6.0.8 tool. The response surface methodology using Central composite rotatable design is applied to design the experiments and the biodiesel yield of Jatropha, Karanja, Mahua, Polanga oils is to be measured. The optimum process parameters for biodiesel yield are predicted through desirability approach. It has been observed that a design …
Published in International Journal of Structural Mechanics and Finite Elements · Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2023 · pp. 1–8 Read article
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Performance and Combustion Analysis of Diesel Engine Fueled with Jatropha Biodiesel—Diesel Blends Using Taguchi’s Approach
Abstract: The aim of this work is to analyze performance and combustion of the various blends of diesel fuels and jatropha biodiesel. Experiments have been carried out using a single-cylinder, four-stroke, variable compression ratio CI engine fueled with jatropha biodiesel and its blends with diesel fuel. The test has been conducted using the fuel blends of 0%, 50% and 100% by volume biodiesel with diesel fuel. The percent biodiesel (0%, 50% …
Published in International Journal of I.C. Engines and Gas Turbines · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2019 · pp. 25–40 Read article
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Experimental Analysis of Performance, Combustion and Emission Characteristics of a Thermal Barrier–Coated Piston Diesel Engine Fuelled with Jatropha Biodiesel Blended with Nanoparticles
Abstract: Abstract The present study experimentally investigates the performance, combustion, and emission characteristics of a compression ignition diesel engine equipped with a thermal barrier–coated (TBC) piston and fuelled with alumina nanoparticle-enhanced Jatropha biodiesel. A yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) ceramic coating was applied on the piston crown to reduce heat loss and improve in-cylinder thermal conditions. Jatropha biodiesel blends (B10, B20, and B30) were prepared through transesterification, and alumina (Al₂O₃) nanoparticles at a …
Published in International Journal of I.C. Engines and Gas Turbines · Vol. 12, Issue 1, 2026 · pp. 1–9 Read article
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Comparative studies on the use of palm kernel and coconut oil as biodiesel fuel sources
Abstract: This research work focuses on the production of biodiesel from palm kernel oil and coconut oil. The biodiesel was prepared by trans-esterification of the oils (unsaturated fatty acid) with an alcohol in the presence of a catalyst to give mono alkyl ester. The biodiesel obtained from the two sources was characterized and the properties compared, The API gravity, Specific gravity, Flash point, Carbon residue, Sediment and Water content, sulphur content …
Published in International Journal of Green Chemistry · Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2018 · pp. 19–24 Read article
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Glycerol Management: Challenges and Opportunities for Biodiesel Producers and Refiners
Abstract: During the last few years, concerns with availability and cost of conventional liquid fuels increased considerably. Considering the present scenario, bio-components are playing an important role in transportation fuels. One such bio-based fuel that is being widely commercialized is biodiesel. With the commercial production of biodiesel a glut of glycerol is going to be created as a byproduct; it will cause market prices to plummet which imbalance the economic viability …
Published in International Journal of Green Chemistry · Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 1–14 Read article
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Comparison study on effect of ethanol and HOME biodiesel blends on the Performance and emission characteristics of CI engine with and without Preheat
Abstract: The internal combustion engines used in Propulsion, Transportation and marine applications, will leads to socio economical growth of any country. The emissions from the fossil fuels leads too several environmental issues like inexperienced homes impact, gas depletion etc. This paper depicts the use of biodiesel as an alternative source of energy for an IC engine. The experimental investigation were carried out on single cylinder 4-stroke compression Ignition (CI) engine operating …
Published in International Journal of Chemical Separation Technology · Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2018 · pp. 19–26 Read article
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Nanocatalyst for Transesterification of Fatty Acids into Biodiesel
Abstract: Global fuel consumption is increasing exponentially due to the ever increase in rate of industrial development. The continued usage of fossil fuels leads to severe environmental concerns and poses threat to the entire mankind. Biodiesel has gained more attention due to the rapid exhaustion of the fossil fuels and increase in price of conventional petroleum products. Transesterification of fatty acids from animal fat, vegetable oils, waste cooking oil, algae and …
Published in International journal of Nanobiotechnology · Vol. 1, Issue 1-2, 2015 · pp. 1–4 Read article
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Application of hybrid RSM-GA technique in predicting optimum process parameters of biodiesel production from Karanja and Mahua oils
Abstract: The current work is focused on the maximization of biodiesel production from Karanja and Mahua oils. The design expert 6.0.8 tool is used for applying the RSM and half fraction with five input process parameters are entered in it. The ranges of all the process parameters are obtained from the literature review. The experiment design matrix is produced to conduct the experiments in order to get maximum biodiesel yield. The …
Published in International Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing · Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2023 · pp. 7–11 Read article
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A Review on Performance and Emission Characteristics of Diesel Engine Fueled With Biodiesel
Abstract: With increasing energy demands in the transport sectors and power generation together with the limited availability of fossil fuels and the adverse environmental effects causing from their use attracts a lot off researchers towards finding alternative fuels to successively substitute conventional fuels. Among the alternative fuels, biodiesel has received great attention due to their attractive characteristics of being renewable in nature. A lot of research has been done on performance …
Published in International Journal of I.C. Engines and Gas Turbines · Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2015 · pp. 32–38 Read article
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Microbial Production of Lipase Enzyme Using StrainCandida tropicalis and Its Application inBioscouring and Biodiesel
Abstract: The growing interest in lipase production is driven by the potential biotechnological applications. In present study lipase producing enzyme using strain Candida tropicalis isolates by using tributyrin agar plate method and confirmation on sprit blue agar which showed the positive result via a zone of hydrolysis. lipase enzyme was carried out by SSF and SMF showing more effective production SSF (25.97 ± 0.47 U/ml/min) as compared to SMF (10.27 ± …
Published in International Journal of Industrial Biotechnology and Biomaterials · Vol. 12, Issue 2, 2026 · pp. 1–21 Read article
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BATCH TECHNIQUE FOR EXTRACTION OF BIODIESEL FROM VEGETABLE OIL
Abstract: We are living in a high time where we have to keep ourselves safe from the adverse effect of pollution that have on our nature and on the human being also. We see nowadays a very huge extent of pollution, and deaths this pollution and activities related to it causing. It is the need of the hour where we must opt for an alternative which is low on the pollution, …
Published in International Journal of Green Chemistry · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2020 · pp. 1–4 Read article
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Cotton Seed for Biodiesel: A Review
Abstract: The planet's ecology is being harmed by our dependency on fossil fuels to supply its rising need for energy. Finding green technologies that produce fewer greenhouse gases is urgently needed. Even though there are different types of fuel such as liquified petroleum gas, compressed natural gas, ethanol, methanol, etc. still there is a need for eco-friendly fuel. With fewer adverse environmentalconsequences, biofuels have many benefits. Biodiesel derived from the transesterification …
Published in International Journal of Green Chemistry · Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2022 · pp. 39–40 Read article
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Response Surface Methodology in the Optimization of Biodiesel Production from Palm Kernel Oil and Cellobiose by Acid Catalysis in Non-solvent Medium
Abstract: Cellobiose, rich in hydroxyl (OH) functional groups was used in a solventless transesterification process with Palm Kernel Oil (PKO) to produce high-quality biodiesel and glycerol. Response Surface Methodology (RSM) was used to examine the effect of reaction temperature, catalyst concentration, reaction time, and cellobiose: oil ratio to optimize the process parameters for highpurity and yield of consequent biodiesel. The process was an acid-catalyzed transesterification reacton of Palm Kernel Oil and …
Published in International Journal of Green Chemistry · Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2023 · pp. 1–22 Read article