JATROPHA BIODIESEL AS AN ALTERNATIVE FUEL FOR CI ENGINES: REVIEW

I.C.ENGINES, BIOFUEL

Today in this fast developing world the need of various transportation system is increasing day by day, in the result of this number of vehicles and engine are increasing, but the conventional fuel used in the vehicles (like diesel and petrol) are limited and decreasing gradually with time. So there is a requirement of various means to drive these vehicles without a heavy modification in the engine of these vehicles. This situation leads to requirement of alternative fuels for engines. Biodiesel is the best substitute of the diesel in the diesel engine. Vegetables oil is the best alternative fuel. The main advantage of vegetable oil over the conventional fuel (as diesel in the diesel engine) is of reducing the cost and able to reduce net CO2 and CO emissions to atmosphere due to their agricultural origin. Among all the alternative fuels Jatropha oil is also one. This review has been taken up to identify the performance and emission using Jatropha biodiesel.

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