Abstract:
The increase of air pollution levels forcing the scientists to analyze the appropriate
alternative fuel in dealing with pollution problems. Among the suitable alternative fuels is
bio-fuel to replace petroleum fuels to reduce air pollution and the popular bio-fuel is
biodiesel. Many studies were conducted on biodiesel, and all of these studies show
similar results which is reduce air pollution compared to petroleum use. However,
biodiesel available in the market today still produce pollutants, the cost of bio-fuel
production is expensive and the process is complicated. This study was looked at the
emission behavior produced by diesel, marketable biodiesel, and a new generation of
biodiesel that made by palm carcass, which are focusing on the production of smoke
thickness, hydrocarbon (HC), carbon dioxide (CO2), oxygen (02), carbon monoxide
(CO), and nitrogen oxide (NOx). The result shows that palm carcass biodiesel (BD20)
performed better emission compared with diesel. However, the production of nitrogen
oxide (NOx) from biodiesel increased compared with diesel emission.
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