Extraction and Characterization of Biofuel from Industrial Waste organic Pupae-Silkworm
Ravikumar R1, Harish Kumar M2, Kiran K3, Gurumoorty S Hebbar4
1Ravikumar R*, Department of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India.
2Harish kumar M, Department of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India.
3Kiran K, Department of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India.
4Gurumoorty S Hebbar, Department of Mechanical and Automobile Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India.
Manuscript received on 1 August 2019. | Revised Manuscript received on 7 August 2019. | Manuscript published on 30 September 2019. | PP: 1603-1607 | Volume-8 Issue-3 September 2019 | Retrieval Number: C4422098319/19©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.C4422.098319
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Abstract: The current work carted out of analysis on the production of fuel from pupae fat extracted from silkworm, and exhaustive investigations were conducted to determine the characteristics of obtained fuel and its blends. The oily organic compounds derived from silkworm is effectively adopted to produce biofuel. The soxhlet extractor is utilized here to separate the oil content from pupae and obtained oil processed into biofuel by undertaking the transesterification process using NaOH as a fast reactive agent along with methanol. The rate of biofuel derived from pupae oil has been noticed to be 65- 70 by vol%. The extracted fuels from the transesterification process were mixed with high-speed diesel at a rate of B10, B20, B30 and B40 on volume base. The most important physical and chemical characteristics of generated fuel and their mixture with conventional diesel were examined. The investigation results reveal that the fuel sample B20 satisfies all the requirements of ASTM standards. Pure biofuel shows that the lesser heating value, higher KV, flash point, fire point and density than that of conventional diesel. The blended samples reveal that all the properties are keep moving towards higher value with an increasing percentage of biofuel presence except calorific value. Finally results in evidence that, well suitable biofuel can be generated from organic waste material like silkworm and effectively use it in practical applications.
Keywords: Blends, Pupae, Silkworm, Soxhlet Extractor
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