Experimental Investigation on the Production of Biodiesel from Various Oils and Determine Various Properties

Inflation in fuel prices and unprecedented shortage of its supply has promoted the interest in development of the alternative sources for petroleum fuels. India is looking at renewable alternative fuel sources to reduce its dependence on foreign imports of oils. As India imports 70% of the oil, the country has been hit hard by increasing cost and uncertainty. Biofuels have the potential to become alternative fuel for fossil fuels. In the present work, an experiment was carried out for the production of biodiesel from various raw oils with the help of transesterification reaction. Once oils can be converted into biodiesels next step for the experiment is to determine various properties of biodiesels and compared with diesel fuel.