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A diesel fuelled engines are broadly used dominating high power sources for transportation due to higher efficiency, operational accuracy, durability, low operating cost, lower exhaust emissions such as UHC, CO and CO2 emissions. Total oil consumption of our country is 2.5-2.8 million barrels/day. The demand of fossil fuel will rise day by day with every passing decade and is anticipated to reach nearly 250 million tons by the year 2024 [1]. Biodiesel is treated clean fuel since it has almost no aromatic, no sulphur and has about inbuilt oxygen concentration which helps it to burn fully. Biodiesel properties mainly depend on the soil type, climate conditions, plant growing, type of plant feed stock, plant maturity. These parameters affect the physico-chemical properties of the biodiesel [2]. Trans-esterified biodiesel fuel has very stringent potential in CI engines, hence has many as countries uses the varieties of edible and non-edible oils such as soyabean, palm, pongamia pinnata, jatropa and argemone biodiesel to produce the power out from CI-engine [3].