K
K. Kundu
Researcher at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Publications - 30
Citations - 484
K. Kundu is an academic researcher from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiesel & Diesel fuel. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 25 publications receiving 356 citations. Previous affiliations of K. Kundu include Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research & Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Bidar.
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Optimization of neem methyl ester from transesterification process and fuel characterization as a diesel substitute
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of process parameters such as molar ratio, preheating temperature, catalyst concentration and reaction time was studied to standardize the transesterification process for estimating the highest recovery of ester with lowest possible viscosity.
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Biodiesel production from waste cooking oil using heterogeneous catalysts and its operational characteristics on variable compression ratio CI engine
TL;DR: In this article, the optimum condition for base catalyzed transesterification of waste cooking oil was determined to be 12:1 and 5 ¼wt% of zinc doped calcium oxide.
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Fuel properties and emission characteristics of biodiesel produced from unused algae grown in India
R. Karmakar,K. Kundu,Anita Rajor +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a compression ignition (CI) engine was used to produce algal biodiesel from the oil of unused algae by a two-step "acid esterification followed by transesterification" procedure, achieving a biodiesel production of 89.7% with free fatty acid content of 0.25%.
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Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass to Bioenergy: A Review
K. Kundu,K. Kundu,Ayoma Chatterjee,Tamashree Bhattacharyya,Madhuka Roy,Madhuka Roy,Ajit Kaur +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the characteristics of generic types of reactors used to carry out thermal decomposition are described with their special features, advantages, and disadvantages, and it has been discussed how the variations in composition of biomass at optimized process flow differ the quality and quantity of potential product yields.
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Optimization of safflower oil transesterification using the Taguchi approach
TL;DR: In this article, the main aim of the experimental work is to optimize the process parameters, namely the methanol-to-oil molar ratio, catalyst concentration, reaction time and reaction temperature for biodiesel production.