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Alternative automotive fuels are currently a significant problem worldwide due to efforts to reduce the global warming provided by the combustion of petroleum or petrol diesel. Biodiesel is non-toxic, biodegradable, produced from renewable sources and contributes to the minimal amount of net greenhouse gases such as CO2, SO2 and NO emissions to the atmosphere. Petroleum reserves are rapidly disappearing from the earth's surface. Biodiesel provides such an alternative. It has become interesting to know the CI engine performance dedicated to biodiesel fuel along with its compatibility as an alternative fuel to existing compression ignition engines. Chapter One introduced the concept with illustrations about biodiesel and its importance and its important properties. Chapter Two provides a brief literature survey with the coconut biodiesel manufacturing process and shows the various reactions that occur during the production of this biodiesel. Chapter three talks about the whole process of the experimental and experimental setup and emphasizes the engine used for the experiments. Chapter four contains the results and discussions of the experiment with graphical plots. Finally, Chapter Five concludes with a future scope. The growing concern over environmental pollution caused by conventional fossil fuels and the perception that they are renewable has led to the search for more environmentally friendly and renewable fuels. Among the various alternatives researched for diesel fuel, biodiesel derived from vegetable oils has been identified as one of the strongest competitors for reducing exhaust emissions worldwide.