Invertis Journal of Renewable Energy
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 2

Biodiesel an Alternative Fuel: A Review

Department of Mechanical Engineering, SRCEM, Bamore (M.P) India

*E-mail: aakash4800@gmail.com

Online published on 18 July, 2018.

Abstract

Looking to present scenario of rapidly increases the pollution in our country and worldwide too the need of some clean and non toxic fuels which helps the environment from the pollution, also the rise of petroleum is hike day by day and we all know petroleum is limited we can't have petroleum after next 50 year if the same rate of consumption is continue so for a future we needs some alternatives of petroleum, there are lot of alternative fuels is discovered in present days out of which biodiesel is most convenient fuel from our society. Biodiesel is clean, non toxic, biodegradable and environment friendly alternative fuels since biodiesel is produce from the vegetable oil or animal fats hence its generally renewable fuels. Biodiesel is produce from more than 350 edible and non edible seed out of which about 70 seeds discovered all over the world. Biodiesel is produce from many methods such a magnetic stirring method, ultrasonic reactions techniques, Hydrodynamics cavitations method, Microwave irradiation Technique, supercritical transesterifications etc. objective of all method is obtained maximum yield.

Keywords

Biodiesel, edible and non edible seed, Thumba, Mahua, Cottonseed