The students of third year Diploma in Engineering, University Polytechnic, Aligarh Muslim University have succeeded in extracting Bio-diesel from refined and used mustard oil. Bio-diesel Extraction Plant has been designed and fabricated by the Diploma Engineering students as part of their final year project under the supervision of Mr M Yunus Khan, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Section. The plant is a part of setup available in the recently developed “Alternative Fuel and Combustion Engineering Lab” in the University Polytechnic.
Mr Khan said that it can directly replace diesel in conventional engines, thereby reducing country’s dependence on imported oil and emissions of various pollutants. A renewable fuel derived from vegetable oil that can be an additive to or entirely replace diesel in C.I. engine, is known as Bio-diesel, he added.