India has a good number of traditional oleaginous crops that can yield oil for both domestic and industrial purposes. As a renew-able energy resource, vegetable oils are the most promising alter-native for making biofuel. The use of vegetable oil in combustion ignition engine (CIE) was first demonstrated by using peanut oil in diesel engine [7]. The direct use of peanut, coconut, soybean,sunflower, palm, linseed and rape seed oils as fuel have been