Waste Cooking Oil Biodiesel: Its Testing, Performance and Emission in an Unaltered Diesel Engine

Abstract

Abstract Rapid climate changes with global warming are the primary dispute of the recent era cause of diesel engine emission. Among the probable fuels, biodiesel is the most promising one as the alternative of petroleum diesel. Biodiesel can be formed from residue of cooking oil by transesterification. The reaction rate can be increased with alkali Catalyst at a 55 °C temperature. The actions of waste cooking oil biodiesel (WCOB) compared with petroleum diesel were performed to observe the nature of an unaltered stationary diesel engine. In this study the specific fuels are: B10 biodiesel-diesel blend contained 10% WCOB and petroleum diesel (B0).The performance of an unaltered diesel engine fuelled with WCOB blend is examined in this study. In order to find out the performance results constant engine speed (1500 rpm) is being maintained during the experiments under 0%, 25%, 50% and 100% load conditions. It has been observed that when the engine setup was fuelled with WCOB blend B10, the performance depleted at mid to top load conditions but no drastic reduction in emission.