• Rajeev Rathi
• Mahipal Singh

There is an increasing interest in India to search for suitable alternative fuels that are environmental friendly. The use of biodiesel is rapidly expanding around the world, making it imperative to fully understand the impacts of biodiesel on the diesel engine combustion process and pollutant formation. The present study deals with the study performance characteristics of a diesel engine with neat diesel fuel and biodiesel mixtures was carried out. Waste cottonseed oil was selected for biodiesel production. The transesterification results showed that with the variation of catalyst, methanol, variation of biodiesel production was realized. A maximum of 76% biodiesel was produced with 20% methanol in presence of 1.0% KOH. The result also shows that the exhaust emissions including carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC) and smoke emissions were reduced for all biodiesel mixtures and hydrocarbon (HC) and NOx emissions of B10 blend is lowest among all the three blends

cottonseed oil, Bio diesel, properties, Blends

"Performance characteristics assessment of biodiesel blends prepared from waste cottonseed oil", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.1519-1528, January 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDY06245.pdf

"Performance characteristics assessment of biodiesel blends prepared from waste cottonseed oil", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp1519-1528, January 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDY06245.pdf