The study of biofuel for marine application and the impact towards emission for better environment

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. V