Proceedings of the
International Conference on Mechanical Engineering 2009
(ICME2009) 26- 28 December 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh

ICME09-TH-20

THE ROLE OF TRANSESTERIFICATION PERIOD ON THE
EFFECT OF ENGINE PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS USING
SOYBEAN BIODIESEL AND DIESEL BLENDS

Swarup Paul1, P.K. Bose2 and Bijan Sarkar3
1Production Engineering Department NIT Agartala, India, 2Director, NIT Agartala, India
3Production Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

ABSTRACT

Gradual depletion of fossil fuel and their harmful combustion effects are compelling to use now-a-days Biodiesel in engines. Transesterification is a method which is used for production of Biodiesel through removal of fatty acid vegetable oil. This Biodiesel can be used as engine fuel mixing with pure diesel with various proportions. In the present work, four types of Soybean Biodiesel have been made just by varying transesterification period. The transesterification periods are 30mins, 60 mins, 90mins and 120 mins respectively. Twenty percent of each type of Soybean Biodiesel is mixed with eighty percent mineral diesel to make B20 fuel. Now these four types of B20 fuels have been used to run the engine. The engine performance parameters viz. Brake power (BP), Specific fuel consumption (SFC) and RPM is tabulated against various load conditions of engine like 0%, 20%, 40%, 50% 80% and 100%. From the experimental observations, nature of each parameter is represented graphically to show which B20 fuel gives the best result. The statistical Analysis by two-way classification (Randomized Block Design) is done to determinewhether Variation of Transesterification period is significant on the engine performance parameters.

Keywords : Transesterification, Biodiesel, Engine Performance, Randomized Block Design.

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