![]() After it was used, it became obvious that it was not suitable to power diesel engine due to some limitations associated with its use. He envisaged that pure vegetable oil could be used on compression ignition engine as fuel. The basic concept of biodiesel synthesis was invented by Rudolf Diesel in the 1890s, and the diesel engine had become the device of choice for power reliability and high fuel economy globally. It can be concluded that blending the diesel with appropriate volume of biodiesel not only improves its quality but also lowers greenhouse gases emission. ![]() ![]() The blended fuel containing 20% by volume biodiesel content (B20) emitted 1050 and 14,000 ppm of CO and CO2, respectively, which were lower than those emitted by B0, B50 and B80. Various analyses carried out on the prepared WFO-based biodiesel confirmed that it is of good quality and also meet the ASTM standard. The biodiesel produced from WFO was achieved via heterogeneous catalyzed transesterification using anthill-eggshell-Ni-Co mixed oxide composite catalyst at reaction temperature of 70☌, reaction time of 2 h, catalyst loading of 3 wt% and methanol to oil molar ratio of 12:1. This study was initiated to blend the biodiesel produced from waste frying oil (WFO) with petroleum diesel in three different proportions (B20, B50 and B80), and the dual fuels were tested on compression ignition engine to evaluate their emission characteristics. ![]()
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