EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SECOND-GENERATION BIODIESEL AND ESTIMATING ITS PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS ON DIRECT INJECTION DIESEL ENGINE

– Nowadays environmental air pollution is one of the major concerns prevailing due to rapid increase in industrialization, increase in transportation, agricultural equipment’s. Fossils fuels are the most predominant source for running the engines, since these fuels generate high efficiency and results in better engine performance. However, due to the increase in population, the demand for the fossil fuels increased as there is rise in usage of transportation. Which automatically increased the environmental air pollution resulting in adverse effects on human health and scarcity of the fuel. Biodiesel fuels with four generations stood as an eye-catching option to overcome the problems associated. In this project, second generation biodiesel is opted to investigate the performance characteristics of the engine. For this, initially the raw oil is converted using transesterification process and converted into biodiesel using transesterification process using homogeneous catalyst. The obtained second generation biodiesel is tested on the engine to estimate the performance characteristics of the engine