Relative Estimation of Various Fuel Properties of Simarouba Glauca and Mahua Fatty Acid Methyl Ester Having Different Blends With Conventional Diesel

Recent concerns over the environment, increasing fuel prices and scarcity of its supply have promoted the interest in development of the alternative sources for petroleum fuels. This paper deals with the production of methyl esters from Simarouba Glauca oil and Mahua oil by transesterification process using potassium hydroxide as a homogeneous catalyst, calcium oxide as a heterogeneous catalyst and methanol as the alcohol. The important properties of Methyl esters such as cloud point, pour point, ash content and carbon residue are tested and compared with other biodiesels. Methyl esters are blended with diesel in different proportions and testing the physicochemical properties such as viscosity, flash point, density and copper corrosion for each blended biodiesel.