CI Engine Performance Analysis using Sunflower and Peanut Bio-Diesel Blends

The availability of energy resources plays a pivotal role in the progress of a country. Over the last few decades, there is an increase in the consumption of energy worldwide resulting in the depletion of fossil fuels. This necessitates dependency on other countries for energy resources. Therefore, a renewable eco-friendly alternate fuel has to be replaced in place of fossil fuel which can be vegetable oils as a substitute fuel for diesel. Since, oils are more viscous it cannot be used directly in CI engines without any engine modification thus; a conversion of vegetable oils to biodiesel is done by a Transesterification process. The present paper is restricted to Bio fuel substitute for the production of diesel which can be achieved from a number of edible and non-edible oil resources. The oil obtained from these seeds of different categories was transesterified by suitable method depending on their FFA content to achieve the optimum level of biodiesel. Further, the obtained biodiesel was used to operate CI-Engine and analyzed with all the standard parameters. Finally, the blends of Sunflower and Peanut Bio-Diesel were used to evaluate the efficiency of CI-Engine system by employing variable reaction mixtures inorder to determine the recitation of the CI-Engine using transesterified peanut and sunflower oil methyl esters blends with diesel.