Performance Evaluation of 4 Stroke Single Cylinder VCR Diesel Engine Using Cotton Seed oil Methyl Ester Blends

Biodiesel is known as the mono-alkyl-esters of long chain fatty acids derived from renewable feedstock, such as, vegetable oils or animal fats, for use in compression ignition engines. Different parameters for the optimization of biodiesel production were investigated in the first phase of this study, while in the next phase of the study performance test of a diesel engine with neat diesel fuel and biodiesel mixtures were carried out. Biodiesel was made by the well-known transesterification process. In this present work Cottonseed oil (CSO) was selected for biodiesel production. Cottonseed is non-edible oil, thus food versus fuel conflict will not arise if this is used for biodiesel production mustard oil was used as biodiesel,and physicochemical properties were investigated the blends of biodiesel and diesel used were B10, B20, and B30. Comparable engine performance characteristics were found for B10, B20, and B30 respectively for cotton seed oil blends.

Cotton seed methyl ester blend 30 (B-30) gives surpass results when compare to the diesel.