• Prijoy J. Jani
• Tushar M. Patel

The present experimental study aims at exploring the effect of Jatropha biodiesel and diesel blends on a single cylinder four stroke water cooled diesel engine. Jatropha biodiesel has been obtained from Jatropha oil by Transesterification process. In this experimentation, the effects of parameters` i.e. injection pressure, blend ratio, inlet water-flow rate and load are taken as adaptable for optimization. RSM optimization has been used with four parameters and three levels of experiments. The proposed Box Behnken design requires 31 runs of experiment for data acquisition and modeling the response surface. Minitab 18 software was used to design the experiment structure. In the end, Taguchi experiment identifies that at JB50, injection pressure 150 bar, engine water flow 300 lph and engine load 11 kg werefound to be the optimum parameter settings for smaller specific fuel consumption. Engine performance has been typically influenced by engine loading conditions and least influenced by water inlet flow.

Jatropha, Transesterification,SFC, CI engine, RSM

"Parametric Optimization of Single Cylinder 4 Stroke CI Engine Fueled with Jatropha Biodiesel & Diesel Blend for Specific Fuel Consumption using RSM Approach ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.195-204, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903030.pdf

"Parametric Optimization of Single Cylinder 4 Stroke CI Engine Fueled with Jatropha Biodiesel & Diesel Blend for Specific Fuel Consumption using RSM Approach ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp195-204, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903030.pdf