Performance and Emissions characteristics of DI Diesel engine using different blends of Grape seed biodiesel

Diesel engine is an internal combustion engine which had made life easy and faster in modern life. These engines consuming lot of diesel fuel and have been increasing the atmospheric pollution. The availability of the diesel fuels is limited and in near future they may get exhausted. Hence there is a need for an alternate source of fuel which is abundant and environmentally friendly. The vegetable oils are the promising alternative among the different diesel fuel alternatives. Biodiesel is produced from vegetable oils or animal fats which are biodegradable and non-toxic. It has considerably reduced emissions when compare to diesel. Grape seed oil is a vegetable oil, generally grape seeds had 20% of oil content. So, the wasted grapes after wine manufacturing had no value. After processing the wasted grape pulp with pressing followed by solvent extraction was the method most widely employed to extract the oil from seeds. The extracted oil was treated with one of the methods which was used for the conversion oils to mono-alkyl esters. Here extracted fuel is transesterified to form the biodiesel. Which was one of the easy methods to work and economically feasible. The properties of grape seed oil were tested. The experimental work was done on 4-stoke single cylinder DI diesel engine with different percentages of grape seed oil combine with diesel. And calculated Performance characteristics like brake power, Specific fuel consumption, mechanical efficiency and Emission characteristics like HC, CO, NOx, CO 2 for particular blends like B10, B15, B20, B25, B30 are measured