Abstract

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The world is getting modernized and industrialized day by day. The awareness about the environment rose among general civic to search for an alternative fuel that could burn with not as much of the pollution. But energy sources used in these engines are limited and decreasing gradually. This situation leads to seek an alternative fuel for diesel engine. Biodiesel is an alternative fuel for C I engine. The esters of vegetables oil animal fats are known as Biodiesel. This paper investigates the prospect of making of biodiesel from Karanja oil. It is botanical name Pongamia pinnata is a renewable non-edible plant. Karanja is a wildly growing hardy plant in all regions of the country on degraded soil having low fertility and moisture. Hence, it is seen that 950ml biodiesel is Produced from 1 liter of Karanja oil. The seeds of Karanja contain 70-75% oil. In this study the oil has been converted to biodiesel by the well-known Transesterification process and used it to diesel engine for performance evaluation. Finally after drying the found methyl ester is converted to the required biodiesel.

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