The prospects of biolubricants as alternatives in automotive applications

HM Mobarak, EN Mohamad, HH Masjuki… - … and sustainable energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
Lubricants perform as anti-friction media. They facilitate smooth operations, maintain reliable
machine functions, and reduce the risks of frequent failures. At present, the increasing prices …

Immobilised enzymes in biorenewables production

MCR Franssen, P Steunenberg, EL Scott… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Oils, fats, carbohydrates, lignin, and amino acids are all important raw materials for the
production of biorenewables. These compounds already play an important role in everyday …

Perspectives of microalgal biofuels as a renewable source of energy

B Kiran, R Kumar, D Deshmukh - Energy conversion and management, 2014 - Elsevier
Excessive use of fossil fuels to satisfy our rapidly increasing energy demand has created
severe environmental problems, such as air pollution, acid rain and global warming …

Waste cooking oil and waste chicken eggshells derived solid base catalyst for the biodiesel production: Optimization and kinetics

AR Gupta, VK Rathod - Waste management, 2018 - Elsevier
Waste chicken eggshells were used to derive two catalysts labeled in this study as Eggshell-
CaO CHD and Eggshell-CaDG. Both these catalysts were characterized by FTIR, XRD, BET …

Enhancement in biodiesel production using waste cooking oil and calcium diglyceroxide as a heterogeneous catalyst in presence of ultrasound

AR Gupta, SV Yadav, VK Rathod - Fuel, 2015 - Elsevier
This work illustrates ultrasound assisted synthesis of biodiesel from waste cooking oil using
calcium diglyceroxide as a heterogeneous base catalyst. The effect of different variables …

An overview of major synthetic fuels

V Ram, SR Salkuti - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Artificial fuels have been researched for more than a decade now in an attempt to find
alternative sources of energy. With global climatic conditions rapidly approaching the end of …

Prospects of biodiesel from Pongamia in India

G Dwivedi, MP Sharma - Renewable and sustainable energy reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Pongamia is forest-based tree containing non-edible oil and has a large production potential
of biodiesel which can grow on any type of soil, needs minimum input and management …

Calcium diglyceroxide catalyzed biodiesel production from waste cooking oil in the presence of microwave: Optimization and kinetic studies

AR Gupta, VK Rathod - Renewable Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
The present paper reports the microwave assisted intensification of biodiesel production
from waste cooking oil using heterogeneous base catalyst-calcium diglyceroxide. Initially …

Physicochemical and thermal characterization of nonedible oilseed residual waste as sustainable solid biofuel

P Doshi, G Srivastava, G Pathak, M Dikshit - Waste management, 2014 - Elsevier
The present study aims to investigate the potential of nonedible oilseed Jatropha (Jatropha
curcas) and Karanja (Pongamia pinnata) defatted residual biomasses (whole seed, kernel …

Pre-and post-mixed hybrid biodiesel blends as alternative energy fuels-an experimental case study on turbo-charged direct injection diesel engine

PC Mishra, SK Nayak - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the performance and emission analyses of a turbo-charged diesel
engine fuelled with pre-mixed and post-mixed hybrid biodiesel blends at varying load …