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Diesel engines are very well known for their high torque and high initial thermal efficiency. But the increase in demand of energy rapid depletion of fossil fuels and meet the stringent emission regulations, the researchers take interest to derive the alternative fuels from renewable sources. Due to the petroleum shortage the researchers take interest in finding the alternative fuels for internal combustion engine. There are various types of alternative fuels available for internal combustion engine but biodiesel is most important alternative to diesel engine. Biodiesel is popular due to its renewability, lower exhaust emissions, and biodegradability In a Shirpur region the mostly fast growing, very easily available and very cheap plant available is Cottonseed Plant. The cottonseed crop is a fast growing plant and that grows even on drought and poor soils. Cotton was the third biggest crops grown worldwide as measured by acreage: soybean which is 47%, occupying 75.4 million hectares; biotech maize (51 million hectares at 32%), biotech cotton (around 24.7 million hectares at 15%) and biotech canola (8.2 million hectares at 5%). So, we can easily utilize Cottonseed by generation of Biodiesel. Most of the researchers have defined transesterification is one of the process for production of biodiesel. Transesterification process is most suitable method used for the production of biodiesel. Biodiesel is a nontoxic, biodegradable and renewable alternative as compared with diesel fuel. The properties of biodiesel are somewhat similar with the diesel fuel. Therefore with few or no any engine modifications are required to use biodiesel in diesel engine. It was also found that additives improved the fuel blend properties like density and viscosity which in turn of improved in the atomization of fuel and showed better combustion characteristics. It results in to higher brake power (BP), lower brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) and higher brake thermal efficiency (BTE) than diesel.