Manufacture and study of physico-chemical properties of Karanja bio-diesel

Arvind Lal¹*, A.K. Gupta², A. Kumar³ and N.K. Yadav Indu4

¹Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering IRIMEE, Jamalpur, Bihar - 811214 (India). ²University Department of Chemistry, L.N.M.University, Darbhanga (India). ³Deptment of Machinical Engineering, BIT, Mesra, Ranchi (India). 4P.G. Department of Chemistry, T.M. Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur (India).

Received on March 15, 2010 and accepted on April 17, 2010

ABSTRACT

Bio-diesel is one of the pollution free, renewable sources of energy, providing an opportunity of employment to a large number of farmers and laboures through plantation of Bio-diesel plants like Jatropha, Karanja, Mahua, Neem, Polong etc. on a bigger scale in vast vacant land including the rail track and roadsides. The manufacturing of bio-diesel through transesterification of non-edible vegetable oils like Karanja (Pongamia Pinnata) proved to be compatible with HSD oil. The properties of Bio-diesel were found to be comparable to HSD oil by the investigation of certain physic chemical properties as per IS : 1460/2000 and conforming the Bio-diesel standard as per ASTM D - 6751.

Keywords : Non-edible oil, Transesterification, HSD (High speed Diesel) oil, FFA (Free Fatty acid).