UNIVERSAL SECONDARY FUEL FOR S.I. (SPARK IGNITION) & C.I. (COMPRESSION IGNITION) ENGINES. Turmeric leaves are the waste product for farmer after removing turmeric. In present work oil was extracted form leaves of turmeric by distillation process. Extracted oil was used to run four stroke engine. Engine eliminates environment harmful products with turmeric leaf oil as compared to petrol and diesel. In this work turmeric leaves are collected from the farmers of Satara, Maharashtra and oil from these leaves is used in three different blends with petrol and diesel, and tested on a multi fuel engine from which the emission are compared with each other. It has been concluded that the blend of 30% turmeric leaf oil with diesel and percent of turmeric leaf oil with diesel is optimum with less hazardous pollutants. It has also been concluded that the blend of 20% turmeric leaf oil with petrol and percent of turmeric leaf oil with petrol is optimum with less hazardous pollutants and good performance characteristics.
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