MAKING AND PREPARATION OF BIODIESEL - APPLICATIONS FOR SOXHLET OIL EXTRACTION AND TRANSESTERIFICATION PROCESS

Significant changes in environmental air pollution, is considered as the major concerns in recent days. Due to rapid increase in population, continuous running operations in industries, and need in agricultural operations demand for supply of fossil fuels increased. Fossil fuels are known as the primary source of fuels since the engine generate high efficiency, however due to the growing demand, scarcity in availability of the fuel, and increase in emissions are under contemplating issue. This concern made to look forward for a renewable source of fuel to increase the engine performance and reduce greenhouse gas effect. In this context, biodiesel is drawing wider attention nowadays, since it has the capacity to emit less emissions, biodegradable, improvement in the engine performance etc. In the present investigation, making and production of cotton seed biodiesel is proposed to estimate the oil obtained using Soxhlet extraction methods and further transesterification process is carried out to obtain biodiesel. The yield of cotton seed oil obtained was 60% The obtained biodiesel is blended with mineral diesel fuel the fuel thermal properties such as kinematic viscosity, flash point, fire point, calorific value is measured from our college research thermal laboratory. Finally, the biodiesel obtained and proves to be a sustainable green fuel to reduce the emissions.