Open AccessPreparation of Biodiesel from Castor Oil and Performance Evaluation in VCR Engine
Author(s) -
Debashree Debadatta Behera,
Aman Gupta,
Shiv Sankar Das,
Ritik Kumar Bhatta,
Avijit Pradhan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of scientific research and reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2320-0227
DOI - 10.9734/jsrr/2021/v27i630404
Subject(s) - biodiesel , castor oil , diesel fuel , nox , transesterification , diesel engine , renewable energy , pulp and paper industry , environmental science , waste management , environmentally friendly , biofuel , methanol , automotive engineering , engineering , chemistry , combustion , organic chemistry , catalysis , ecology , electrical engineering , biology
Biodiesel can be used as Alternative fuel and acts as Renewable energy source. Rapid growth in industrialization of developing countries is resulting in increasing demand for new and eco-friendly energy sources. In this present research biodiesel was prepared from Castor oil by esterification and Transesterification process. The castor oil biodiesel produced was blended with diesel to obtain B10.Performance evaluation was carried out in VCR engine and emission testing was done by Gas analyzer to know the percentage of CO,HC, NOX and comparison study was done with diesel and biodiesel blend. In this study it was found that NOx emission rate of biodiesel blend increases while percentage of CO, HC increases. Also various performance indicators such as break mean effective pressure, specific fuel consumption; break thermal efficiency was plotted with respect to variation of load by using VCR engine.