Author : Amit Pal, Shashank Mohan and Dhananjay Trivedi

Due to rapidly diminishing petroleum resources and the escalating environmental pollution from the use of the fossil fuels, there is a gigantic search for alternative sources of fossil fuels. Biodiesel demonstrates to be the best appropriate substitute for the diesel fuel because it can be used in any existing diesel engine without incorporating any adaptation. Waste Frying Oil (WFO), which is not suitable for human utilization, and whose safe disposal is a challenge, may be suitably used for biodiesel production. The present paper deals with the details of conversion of WFO into biodiesel through cavitation techniques followed by its performance testing on a diesel engine.

Keywords: Waste Frying Oil, Cavitation, Transesterification, Biodiesel, Smoke Opacity

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.4,No.3 (June- 2014)