Open AccessExperimental Investigation on Production of Jatropha Methyl Ester
Author(s) -
Arun Kumar Rajamanickam,
V. C. Uvaraja,
D Selvamuthukumaran,
A. Shanmugasundaram
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/764/1/012053
Subject(s) - flash point , transesterification , biodiesel , vegetable oil , renewable fuels , fossil fuel , biofuel , pulp and paper industry , waste management , environmental science , petroleum , jatropha , lubricant , mineral oil , methanol , chemistry , engineering , organic chemistry , catalysis
At present transportation and agricultural machinery are heavily dependent on petroleum fuels. In current scenario few nations only produce the petroleum fuel that leads to variability in the cost and demand in supply of fuels. Due to this problems it is necessary to find an alternate source for the mineral oil. Based on many research work biogas, ethanol, methanol and vegetable oils are best alternate fuel for mineral oil. The vegetable oils are consider as an alternate to mineral oils since they are environmentally friendly and biodegradable. Compare to mineral oils vegetable oils has high viscosity, low friction coefficient, low volatile, high flash and fire point. In this work it shows that Jatropha oil Methyl Ester (JME) based biofuel is an alternative to fossil fuels. JME can be used as an alternate to fossil fuel and also due to its viscosity index and lubricity properties it has the potential to use as lubricant. The Ester is formed by transesterification process and the viscosity, flash and fire point tests are conducted to analyse the properties of JME over mineral oil. Further, the maximum yield of JME is obtained by varying the proportions of KOH (catalyst), methanol (alcohol) and stirring speed by L27 Orthogonal Array based on Taguchi method.