A Critical Review on the Performance and Emission Characteristics of Simarouba Glauca Biodiesel as an Alternate Fuel in Variable Compression Ignition Engine

Biodiesel has become more attractive recently because of its environmental benefits and the fact that it is made from the renewable resources. The world is getting modernized and industrialized day by day. As a result vehicles and engines are increasing. But conventional energy sources used in these engines are limited and decreasing gradually, due to increase in the demand and scarcity in the availability of the fossil fuel, above said problems addresses a need of alternate fuel in order to overcome the present crisis. The researchers are attempting to develop the alternative fuel which is economical, environment friendly and a simple technology which is easy to understand and to implement. From the study of many researchers we came to know that, biofuels are having the potential need to serve as a fuel in compression ignition engine. In this paper, the results of some of the researchers have been summarized and compared to get the state of the art of Simarouba biodiesel production, its combustion, emissions and performances characteristics as CI engine fuels.