REVIEW PAPER ON PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT OF 4-STROKE DIESEL ENGINE USING PREHEATED OIL BASED BIO-DIESEL WASTE

Bio-diesel is widely accepted as comparable fuel to diesel in compression ignition engine. It offers advantages like higher cetane number, reduced emissions of particulates. Moreover, transportation and agriculture sector depends on diesel fuel therefore, it is essential that alternatives to diesel fuels must be developed. In the view of these, vegetable oils like palm oil, cotton seed oil, Neem oil, pongamia oil are considered as alternative fuels to diesel which are promising alternatives. Natural gas is a mixture of hydrocarbons-mainly methane and is produced either from gas wells or in conjunction with crude oil production. Bio-diesel fatty acid methyl or ethyl ester made from vegetable oils (both edible & non-edible) and animal fats. The main commodity sources for bio- diesel in India can be non-edible oils obtained from plant species such as Jatropha, Curcas, Karanj, Neem, Mahua etc. Bio-diesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a bio-diesel blend or can be used in its pure form just like petroleum diesel, biodiesel operates in compression ignition