CHARACTERIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF ZERO EFFLUENT USING THUMBA AS BIODIESEL ON DIESEL ENGINE

In recent years there are requirements for development of automotive fuel technologies that may contribute to reducing environmental load, such as diversification of primary energy resources and reduction in CO2 emission as well as reduction in motor vehicle emissions. As one of the measures to reduce environmental load is the use of bio-fuels. Diesel engines dominate the field of commercial transportation and agricultural machinery on account of its superior fuel efficiency. Due to shortage of petroleum diesel fuel and its increasing cost, an alternate source of fuel for diesel is very much needed. It has been found that vegetable oils hold special promise in this regard, since they can be produced from the plants grown in rural areas. Vegetable oils from crops such as soybean, peanut, sunflower, rape, coconut, neem, cotton, musterd, Jatropha, linseed & castor have been evaluated in many part of the world, which lack petroleum reserves as fuels for CI Engines. It is clean burning, renewable, non-toxic, bio-degradable and environmentally friendly transportation fuel that can be used in neat form or in blends with petroleum derived diesel in diesel engine.