Bio-diesel production and its engine characteristics—An expatiate view

Experimental analysis of engine performance, combustion and emission using pongamia biodiesel as fuel in CI engine

“…The biodiesel with proper additive may reduce the ignition delay and the added oxygen leads to complete combustion and increases the total heat release, but the NO x level increased. [15,24].…”

“…The increase in brake specific fuel consumption with decreased brake thermal efficiency and reduced CO emission, HC emission, smoke emission and increased NOx are the result [15,23].…”

“…to overcome this the production of biodiesel plays a vital role [2,13]. Various production methods like transesterification, thermal cracking, micro emulsion, preheating and blending are available for biodiesel production [2,14,15]. Most of the authors prefer transesterification method for biodiesel production and this author also prefer the same.…”

Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Region

“…In the transesterification process, triglyceride (vegetable oils) reacts with an alcohol (preferably methanol or ethanol) forming a methyl or ethyl-ester (biodiesel) as the core product and glycerol as a by-product (Bergmann et al 2013;Nasir et al 2013;Subramaniam et al 2013;Knothe et al 2005). Even though ethanol is the preferred alcohol in the transesterification reaction as ethanol can be produced renewably and has low toxic level, methanol is mostly utilized as it is cheaper than most other alcohols (Bezergianni and Dimitriadis 2013).…”

A Short Review on Valorization of Slaughterhouse Wastes for Biodiesel Production

“…The limited availability and rising prices of crude oil are the two primary reasons for investigating the use of triglycerides as alternative fuel …”