Performances of Engines Fueled with Biodiesel of Rapeseed and Jatropha Oil

Abstract

This paper objective is to study and analyze two different alternative green fuels (biofuels) obtained from rapeseed oil, a plant which grows in Ro-mania and jatropha oil that grows and is commonly used in Pakistan. The expe-rimental test regarding the (on) engine performances and the level of pollutant emissions of the studied mono cylindrical diesel engine was conducted in the laboratory on Thermodynamics and Thermal Machines of the Faculty of Me-chanics of Craiova. Various instruments were used to acquire pollutant emis-sions and corresponding data as well as the performances of the engine for each case. Nowadays, purposes for the diesel engines are a fuel product more effi-cient and a greater flexibility regarding the fuels with attention over the level of pollution.