18Sep 2017

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF BIO-DIESEL PRODUCTION USING PUNGAMIA OIL AND PROCESS PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION USING TAGUCHI TECHNIQUE.

  • Professor, Department of Automobile Engineering, SNS College of Technology, Coimbatore-641035.
  • Project Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore-641109.
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Background: Energy is prime mover of the all growing country. Consumption of fossil fuel has increased day by day for the reason the industrial growth and rapid increase in vehicular population, and demand for energy is increasing at very fast rate. The accelerating and frequently fluctuating price of conventional diesel has sparked renewed attention on the search for an alternative fuel Material and Method: Biodiesel is an alternative fuel made from renewable biological sources such as vegetable oils both edible and non-edible oil and animal fat. Producing biodiesel using edible oil is not cost-effective in India. Jatropha, Pungamia, Mahua, Sal, Neem etc. are widely available non-edible oil seeds in India using which the biodiesel can be produced economically. Among them, Pungamia has a potential to be used as a basic feedstock for the production of biodiesel. Transesterification, Pyrolysis, Microemulsion and Blending are the primary methods used nowadays to produce biodiesel from non-edible sources. This paper focuses on production of biodiesel from Pungamia oil using Transesterification process and also an attempt has been made to optimize the process parameters that affect the yield of biodiesel from the oil. The process temperature, molar ratio of alcohol to the oil, types of catalyst and its concentration and reaction time are the primary parameters considered in this paper for optimization to obtain better yield using Taguchi approach. Result: In regression equation, the goodness of fit is clarified by the determination coefficient (R2). In this study, the value of determination coefficient is 0.962 which is indicated that 4.8% of the total variations are not explained by the regression model. The adjusted determination coefficient is 0.959. The permutation of process parameters such as Catalyst and time have greatest contribution on response. The percentage of contribution of catalyst and time on yield is 32% and 42% respectively. Conclusion: The percentage of errors is obtained between the predicted results and the experimental results. Errors are normally distributed and has been found that the deviation is well within the limit of 95% confidence level. It can be noted that increasing the methanol-oil ratio from 5:1 wt% to 15:1 wt% had an insignificant effect on the yield.


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[Dr. M Shanmugaraja, T. Tharoon (2017); EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF BIO-DIESEL PRODUCTION USING PUNGAMIA OIL AND PROCESS PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION USING TAGUCHI TECHNIQUE. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Sep). 592-601] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


Dr. M Shanmugaraja
Professor, Department of Automobile Engineering, SNS College of Technology, Coimbatore-35,

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5365      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5365