Performance and Emission Characteristics of Double Cylinder Diesel Engine Fuelled With Diesel, Citronella Oil & Grape Seed Oil

Abstract

Bio diesel is an alternative fuel produced from edible & non-edible vegetable oils. In place of petroleum based diesel fuels, Bio diesel can be used, without any modifications in the engine. Due to the thickness of oil, straight vegetable oil can’t be used in diesel engine. By using Transesterification process crude oil is converted into bio diesel. And we conducted experiment on compression ignition double cylinder diesel engine fuelled with citronella oil & grape seed oil. The performance & emission characteristics of citronella oil, grape seed oil are compared with pure diesel, at zero load and at full load.