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Production of Sunflower Biodiesel as an Alternative Fuel for Compression Ignition Engine: A Review

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The fuels derived from conventional sources are becoming increasingly expensive on account of their growing demand and non-renewable nature. The fossil fuels find necessity in a range of industrial sectors pivotal to the economy, including but not limited to power generation, manufacturing, and transportation, which exacerbates their deleterious effects. This being the case, the search for alternative sources of fuel and their widespread integration in practice is imperative. To that end, biodiesel obtained from sunflower oil can be considered, owing to its many utilitarian qualities, like high oil content of about 40%, which leads to highly efficient yields of about 600 pounds of oil per acre. The review focuses on the wide range of production methods proposed for sunflower biodiesel, based on extant research data, and how the fuel output ensues from each of those methods, in terms of their properties, which have a bearing ultimately on their performance in a Compression Ignition (CI) Engine. Attention has been given to comparing a wide variety of catalysts employed in the transesterification process, which is predominantly used to produce the fuel. Data has been gathered on the properties exhibited by the different variants of fuel, in order to weigh up the relative merits of each option and select the one most suited to fulfill any requirement. A comprehensive research has been done to study all technical aspects involved in the production of sunflower biodiesel, in order to aid in the possible supplantation of fossil fuels by sunflower biodiesel.

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, VIT Chennai, Chennai, India

    Chamala Vaishnavi, Naveen Raj Srinivasan & Bhisham Kumar Dhurandher

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  1. National Institute of Technology, Patna, Bihar, India

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    Anmesh Kumar Srivastava

  3. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

    Pradeep Kumar Jha

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Vaishnavi, C., Srinivasan, N.R., Dhurandher, B.K. (2023). Production of Sunflower Biodiesel as an Alternative Fuel for Compression Ignition Engine: A Review. In: Maurya, A., Srivastava, A.K., Jha, P.K., Pandey, S.M. (eds) Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7709-1_16

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