Effect of blending ratio of cocodiesel (CME) on diesel Engine performance
Abstract
Playing its also developing country Indonesia also facing the energy crisis, therefore. Indonesian goverment strongly promotes the utilization of biofuels. As an agricultural country, Indonesia indeed has a great potential of producing vegetable oils such as palm oil, Jatropha oil, coconut oil, etc, which are renewable raw materials for producing biofuel susch as biodiesel. The utilization of coconut oil as the raw material for cocodiesel is very prospective, because Indonesia has 3,9 million ha of coconut tree, which is the largest in the world, and spreading along the alternative fuel is very valuable, espccially in the remote area wherc a huge anount of coconut oil source is available while the price of petroleum diesel fuel is very high due to excessive transportation cost.