Suggestion needed in selection of biofuel

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  Ramani Aswath

  I did investigate biodiesel a few years back. President Abdul Kalaam was also keen on Jatropha. I have been planting Jatropha since 1980. It is a plant that grows in semi arid zones without much fertilizers or care. It is a beautiful plant. The nut is called the psychic nut as eating the nut can cause hallucinations. Some wandering gypsies ate a bunch of the seeds from the hedge where we had planted it in Bangalore and were lying under the bushes in a stupor.
  
  However, in my opinion this may be the source of choice.
  
  There is one report against Jatropha saying that Kenya reports higher emissions from Jatropha fuel.
  
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  www.jatrophaworld.org
  
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  A contrary report:
  
  Jatropha Biofuel Project: Emissions Up to Six Times Greater Than Fossil Fuels | Climate & Capitalism
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  Karthikeyan jaisankar

  nice to hear sarath...whether its working???
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  Sarathkumar Chandrasekaran

  Hi friends, I am happy to inform that I had finallt found my source.Its none other than Neem oil.
  Our project deals with the Extraction of Neem biodiesel using transesterification and testing its performance in a single cylinder diesel engine.
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  Karthikeyan jaisankar

  🎉👍hardwork never fails!!!!
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  Sarathkumar Chandrasekaran

  Need suggestions.
  I saw some journals having graph for emission where it was plotted with CO vs Time.
  I want to know whether it is posdible to find it in this way or it can be found like load vs CO?
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  Thanks in advance.
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  Ramani Aswath

  Can you please post a link to the graph. Does not make sense to me. How can there be a variation of CO emission with time in a steady state situation?
  
  In an IC engine there could be variation between idling, steady running and acceleration/deceleration.
  While neem oil is a renewable resource, what will be the yield/hectare and cost?
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  Sarathkumar Chandrasekaran

  A.V.Ramani

  Can you please post a link to the graph. Does not make sense to me. How can there be a variation of CO emission with time in a steady state situation?
  
  In an IC engine there could be variation between idling, steady running and acceleration/deceleration.
  While neem oil is a renewable resource, what will be the yield/hectare and cost?

  iS THIS GRAPH CORRECT?
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  Ramani Aswath

  The X axis goes up to 1000 secs. Does this represent the ehaust of the IC engine or is this the exhaust of a steady state burning of the fuel in a burner?
  What do the percentages in the caption represent?
  CO2 and O2 becoming horizontal seems to be normal behaviour in a steady state situation. Drop in CO with time may be due to stabilization of combustion.