Crop diversification and saline water irrigation as potential strategies to save freshwater resources and reclamation of marginal soils—A review

MI Hussain, M Farooq, A Muscolo… - Environmental Science and …, 2020 - Springer
Feeding 9 billion by 2050 is one of major challenges for researchers. Use of diversified
crops, nonconventional water resources and rehabilitation of marginal lands are alternate …

Biodiesel from plant seed oils as an alternate fuel for compression ignition engines—a review

C Vijayakumar, M Ramesh, A Murugesan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2016 - Springer
The modern scenario reveals that the world is facing energy crisis due to the dwindling
sources of fossil fuels. Environment protection agencies are more concerned about the …

Performance and emission characteristics of preheated and blended thumba vegetable oil in a compression ignition engine

NL Jain, SL Soni, MP Poonia, D Sharma… - Applied Thermal …, 2017 - Elsevier
This research is motivated for making the rural areas of developing countries self-reliant in
energy production. Rural areas are endowed with enormous amount of vegetation that is …

Oil and fatty acid contents in seed of Citrullus lanatus Schrad.

RL Jarret, IJ Levy - Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
Intact seed of 475 genebank accessions of Citrullus (C. lanatus var. lanatus and C. lanatus
var. citroides) were analyzed for percent oil content using TD-NMR. Extracts from whole …

Performance evaluation of diesel-jatropha biodiesel-methanol blends in CI engine

VR Rai, D Shringi, YB Mathur - Materials Today: Proceedings, 2022 - Elsevier
Biodiesel is an alternative fuel which is obtained from vegetable oils or animal fats. In recent
time Jatropha biodiesel shows excellent performance as an alternative fuel and appears as …

Investigation on the characteristics of biodiesel droplets in the engine cylinder

A Raza, H Mehboob, S Miran, W Arif, SFJ Rizvi - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The world is moving towards renewable energy sources rapidly and, at present, fossil fuels
are reducing day by day. In this scenario, biofuels have become an attractive alternative to …

Experimental investigation of Chia (Salvia Hispanica L) seed oil as a novel promising feedstock for the CI engine

KM Manjunatha Swamy, H Manjunath, R Suresh - Biofuels, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) seed oil is a novel renewable energy resource for synthesis of
biodiesel. In the current research work, chia seed oil methyl ester (CSME) was synthesized …

A durability study of a compression ignition engine operating with Thumba (Citrullus colocyntis) vegetable oil

NL Jain, SL Soni, MP Poonia, D Sharma… - … Science and Pollution …, 2019 - Springer
Vegetable oils are found suitable alternate of diesel fuel as per the results of short-run
studies. Long-run studies with vegetable oil as a fuel pointed out the problems related to …

Study of morpho-agronomic diversity and oil content in desert gourd ('Citrullus colocynthis'(L.) Schrad.)

K Menon, N Sood, NK Rao - Australian Journal of Crop Science, 2016 - search.informit.org
'Citrullus colocynthis'(L.) Schrad., also known as desert gourd, is a xerophytic perennial
creeper. In a field trial conducted on sandy soil and under arid conditions in the United …

[PDF][PDF] Performance characteristics of mix oil biodiesel blends with smoke emissions

S Mohite, S Kumar, S Maji - International Journal of Renewable …, 2016 - academia.edu
Fossil fuel resources are being depleted day by day and its use affects the environment
adversely. Renewable energy is one of the alternate for sustainable development and …