STUDY OF JATROPHA CURCAS BIODIESEL BLEND WITH FOSSIL DIESEL THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION, ENGINE PERFORMANCE AND EMISSION COMPARE TO FOSSIL DIESEL

fuels research gain interest among researchers these recent years due to the
world today is faced with serious global warming and environmental pollution. Besides, fossil
fuel will become rare and faces serious shortage in the near future. Biodiesel as a cleaner
renewable fuel has been considered as the best substitution for diesel fuel due to it being used
in any compression ignition engine without any modification. Biodiesel can be produced and
derived from the plant oil such as Jathropa Curcas, Calophyllum inophyllum, Palm Oil and etc. In
order to utilized biodiesel the characteristic of the fuel need to be understand, this is because
the composition of the fuel is different from the fossil diesel. This study has been conducted in
order to investigate the effect of biodiesel blending on combustion at different percentages to
diesel. The methodologies for conducting this research analysis project are divided into four
categories which are based on past research papers, journal and articles related to this topic,
testing and analysis the biodiesel with fossil diesel blend 20% and 10% at different percentage
exposed to the isothermal heating with heating rate of 10°C/min using TGA, engine
performance analysis and lastly the emission analysis both based on past research in order to
compare it between Jatropha Curcas Biodiesel Blends with fossil diesel. The result will be shown
to the readers in the term of comparison between Jatropha Curcas Biodiesel Blends with fossil
diesel in term of thermal characterization, engine performance and the emission produced
compared to the fossil diesel in order to justify the similarity between those fuels. By doing this,
the conclusion can be made either Jatropha Curcas Biodiesel Blends can be used as a substitute
to the fossil diesel or not.